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Monthly Archives: February 2012
2012 Mar Vista Green Garden Showcase
Spring is less than a month away, and that means that garden tours will soon be populating our calendars. Garden tours are a great way to “fill
the well”, to get ideas for your own garden, re-awaken the dormant gardener that has been sleeping all winter, and even solve problems with your landscaping.
The Mar Vista Green Garden Showcase, on April 21, 2012, is a free tour that features not only amazing gardens,
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New Edible Landscape for a Cottage
Back in November, I got a call from a woman who wanted to turn her front and back yard into an edible landscape. She had seen me on Food For
Thought with Claire Thomas, and felt instinctively that Gardenerd was the right hire for the job.
We worked together to come up with ideas: moving existing baby fruit trees to permanent homes in the front yard, adding a vegetable garden and more fruit trees in the backyard. She …
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Spring Garden Planning Workshop This Saturday
You’ve riffled through all of those seed catalogs, you’ve taken a survey of your seed collection and filled in the blanks. Now what?
Where will everything go this season? How will you find enough room? What about crop rotation and companion planting?
With all these things to think about, planning your spring garden may feel overwhelming. It’s supposed to be fun. We can help.
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Fried Green Tomatoes – in Winter?
Yes, Dorothy, there still are tomatoes in February – if you live in Los Angeles. It’s one of the many oddities of living in a warm winter climate. Up until last week, we were
picking tomatoes from a volunteer tomato that had entwined itself through a giant Cecil Brunner rose, but with recent pruning, it all came to a delicious end.
The vine had …
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Chickens – Part 2: The Arrival
[Cue movie voice over guy]
It’s been two years in the making…
But now they’ve come…
And No One knows what to expect…It’s…
[Cue percussive orchestral filler music]
Chicken Invasion
Already exhibiting personality…
Our story continues from last week’s post.
Our pullets arrived late …
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Meet the Milk Man
The latest edition of Mar Vista’s Bounty Hunter is live and ready for your cheese-y delight: This week you’ll learn about Milk Man Cheese
Services and find out where to get local artisan cheeses in Southern California.
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Tagged Mar Vista Farmers' Market, Mar Vista's Bounty Hunter
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Chickens – Part 1: Building the Coop
In an effort to expand our garden ecosystem, we’ve gone the way of the farmer, adding backyard chickens to our list of on-site resources. This
is the story of how we got started. We intend to share the process in hopes of making it easier for others who plan to do the same.
We spent two years researching and being skittish about getting them, while everyone with chickens kept saying, “Just get them!” 2012 rolled around, as did …
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How to Know if it’s GMO?
“Dear Gardenerd,
How do we know if our seeds are genetically Modified?”
Excellent question! I have answers for you.
The good news is that GMO seeds are widely available to the commercial agriculture industry, but the push to sell them to home gardeners is not yet popular (and most likely not lucrative).
The bad news is that farmers growing non-GMO crops for seed are having a harder time isolating themselves from farms that …
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Ask Gardenerd: When is it Organic?
A very thoughtful question came into Ask Gardenerd this week:
“I’m new here. So far my big challenge is getting started. I do have a question. I do want to eat organic. Let’s say I get a small plant, like an herb, from Home Depot or a similar store, I plant
it and grow it organically with no man-made chemicals are pesticides. Does that make the plant organic? Is it kind of organic? If I keep it growing year-after-year and grow it organically, will
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Tasty Cabbage Season
It’s time to harvest those cabbages that have been growing over winter. As readers may remember, we planted a newly discovered variety of open
pollinated Vertus savoy cabbage from Bountiful Gardens this past fall, and now we’re reaping
the benefits. It’s hard to find an open pollinated or heirloom variety of savoy cabbage, so we were very excited to test this one out.
The results are in, and they …
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