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Monthly Archives: October 2011
Arugula: Sylvetta vs. Rocket
For so many years, arugula has been a staple in the garden. It’s a fantastic addition to salads (grown right next to mustard greens and lettuces, it adds amazing texture to the garden as well), and
can be cooked into pasta dishes, thrown on sandwiches or served as a garnish for Italian dishes.
This year, our regular arugula plants are getting some competition. We’ve always grown arugula (A.K.A. rocket salad, rocket arugula, eruca sativa), but ever since a visit to Italy where we ate an
entire salad made from Wild arugula (A.K.A. …
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LA Green Festival
This weekend is the Los Angeles Green Festival, where I will be speaking on Sunday, October 30 at 2 p.m in the
Sustainable Home and Garden Pavilion. Heirlooms and Open-pollinated Seeds will be the topic of the afternoon, and if you want to learn why it’s so important for us to grow these gems, and save the
seeds, come on down and find out.
Green Festival, the nation’s largest and most trusted green living event, …
Fall is All About Winter Squash
The latest post from Mar Vista’s Bounty Hunter is live and ready for your perusal. Find great ideas for cooking and decorating with pumpkins and other beautiful fall winter squash varieties:
Celebrate Halloween and Fall with Winter Squash
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Save D. Landreth Seed Company
D. Landreth is the oldest seed house in America, and it’s going out of business unless we help them. The bank has seized the company’s assets and in order to pay back its debt, D. Landreth is selling seed catalogs to raise funds. Here’s the scoop from their website:
“On August 30, 2011 the Landreth bank accounts were frozen by a court ordered garnishment because the company had failed to pay back some of the debt …
Take Cover! It’s Cabbage Moth Season.
Just a few moments in the garden reveal that it must be mating season for the cabbage moth. These deceptively cute white butterflies can be found twirling around one another and fluttering about the
garden, looking for a good place to lay their eggs. Be prepared.
We planted out our kale and cabbage crops early this year, but took the precaution of covering them with floating row cover to keep the critters from
settling in.
A Fall Thinnings Salad
If you grow from seed this fall, you’ll have a chance to enjoy the benefits of thinning your seedlings right into the salad bowl. Baby greens may be expensive in the market, but they’re free when you
pick from the excess of sprouts in your garden.
Even when using Square Foot Gardening, I like to have a little bit of insurance. I plant two or three seeds in each planting hole, then wait for survival of the fittest to make itself known. The
smaller seedlings are then snipped off (with scissors, rather …
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A Taste Of Italy in Mar Vista
The latest post from Mar Vista’s Bounty Hunter is live and ready for your perusal. Learn all about Rita’s Roman Recipes (website coming soon), and where to get them:
A Taste of Italy in Mar Vista
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Vote for Gardenerd
And now a moment of shameless self-promotion…
I’ve entered the Gardenerd Test Garden in a competition for cash and fame, and I need your help. YourGardenShow.com has partnered with Mother Earth News to give two lucky gardeners $500 cash and a chance at being
featured in an upcoming issue of Mother Earth News Magazine.
We’re currently holding in the Top 25 Gardens, …
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Aquaponics: A Field Trip to EVO Farm
Aquaponics is a combination of hydroponics and aqua-culture. It is a closed-loop system that uses aquariums (or aquaria if we’re going to use proper Latin) of fish to produce the nutrient fertilizer
for plants to feed upon. The plants then grow in the water that is infused with fish droppings (and filtered for solids). It uses no soil. The water recycles back through the system to the fish and
the whole process starts all over again.
I paid a visit to EVO Farm, a local experimental site that combines yardsharing with aquaponics. …
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Ask Gardenerd: Starter Advice for Container Gardening
I love when questions like this come from fresh gardenerds:
“I just stumbled on your website and am interested in gardening classes. I started gardening this spring by using pots and hanging pots. My veggies and herbs did extremely well. I put seedlings
in potting soil, watered occasionally, and voila! I’m an Ocean Park farmer! But now I’m excited and want to learn the basics. Can you provide me with upcoming class information and recommend an
introductory book? Thanks, Bob Meepos”
Hi Bob,
I’m glad to …
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