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Monthly Archives: April 2013
LA Times Garden Chat – Spring Garden Tips
For those who missed it, I had the pleasure of chatting with Lisa Boone of the LA Times a couple weeks ago about spring planting. It was a chance to share some helpful gardening tips and answer viewer questions. It … Continue reading
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Tagged Garden nerd, Gardenerd, LA Times, Spreecast
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Asian Raw Cabbage and Tofu Salad
Here’s another chance to cook (or not cook) with fresh ingredients from the garden with this great Raw Cabbage and Tofu Salad recipe. It’s easy to make and uses your cabbage and carrot harvest from the cool-weather season. It happens; … Continue reading
It’s Garden Tour Time
April and May are remembered most for showers and flowers, but the best part of all that spring activity is the garden tours. Now’s your chance to get out and see what’s growin’ on, to get ideas for your own … Continue reading
Mystery Eggs
Last week I was cleaning up my community garden plot to ready it for new crops and I came upon several small piles of mystery eggs. I had never seen anything like it before and didn’t know whether they were … Continue reading
Fountain Pump for Rainbarrels
Our rainy season appears to be coming to a close here in Los Angeles, but before we turn on the irrigation, there’s still a little bit of water in our rain barrels. It’s hard to get every last drop out … Continue reading
Preserving Cilantro (and other herbs)
Nature plays a mean trick on gardeners here in Southern California. By the time the tomatoes are ripe and the chiles are ready to pick, the salsa garden is missing an important ingredient: cilantro. Our delicate friend has long since … Continue reading
Interplanting – It’s a Good Thing
You’ve most likely heard of companion planting, so interplanting won’t be entirely unfamiliar to you. It’s basically the idea of planting two or three different plants together to take advantage of available space, and to benefit the plants involved. For … Continue reading
Recipe: Pasta al Cavolo Broccolo e Romanesco (Gluten-Free)
It’s a mouthful of a title, but basically Pasta al Cavolo Broccolo e Romanesco is pasta with Romanesco broccoli and a delightful Italian sprouting broccoli otherwise known as Spigarello or Cavolo Broccolo a Getti di Napoli. I made up this … Continue reading