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Big News here in the land of Gardenerd. We’re
now podcasting the Tip of the Week! Click below to
hear it. We’ll let you know when we get placement
on iTunes (hopefully soon) so you can subscribe and get the Tip of the
Week delivered right to your MP3 player.
Sweet!
Seed-Starting for a better tomorrow
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It’s been a little quiet here on the Gardenerd blog. Reason being – Time Warner Cable decided to display its flare for deplorable service for 10
days. However, rather than shout from the rooftops about my newfound “strong dislike” of Time Warner Cable, I’ll change the subject and head in a direction that makes me much happier.
REGISTRATION FOR THE GARDENERD ORGANIC GARDENING CLASS SERIES IS NOW OPEN!
If you haven’t heard, we’re going to be teaching a series of 4 basic organic gardening 101 classes starting February 23, 2008. Sign up now, because space is limited. Click the link below
to go …
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SAVE THE DATE!
A fellow Gardenerd recently wrote in:
“When is the best time to plant herbs? I planted basil last spring which slowly started to die in November. I planted another basil in October which is on its way out as well. Dill I planted
in the fall is brown and not growing!! HELP!”
That’s a very good question, and depending on your climate and growing options, I have an answer for you. Before that though, I want to say you have really good luck with Basil! Basil is
a summer plant, and it usually dies back when the first cold spell hits. If …
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Yesterday we went and picked up a new member of the family. No, we didn’t adopt a child. We went to the City of Los Angeles’ Compost Workshop and Bin Sale. It was
a very exciting day for us. We’ve been waiting for this moment for many months.
We drove to Burbank, exiting the 134 Freeway at Griffith Park Drive. We found ourselves trailing behind a tanker truck going about 5 miles an hour, so there was plenty to time to take in the
scenic beauty of this expansive park. People were out jogging or walking their dogs, while other folks were riding …
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Well, the rain dance I did last week definitely worked. We’re lined up for 7 straight days of rain. This kind of weather makes for good
daydreaming about the sunny spring sure to follow. What better time than to curl up in bed with all those seed catalogues and make good on some garden design fantasies and promises?
That’s what I do, anyway. Here’s how to do it:
1) Get out your most trusted gardening books: (my are listed below)
Square Foot Gardening by Mel Bartholomew
Geoff Hamilton’s Organic Gardening
Carrots Love Tomatoes by Louise Riotte
Rodale’s Garden Answers…
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In our last newsletter, we announced the brand new Gardenerd Organic Gardening Series. In case you missed the newsletter, here is a reprint of
that announcement. Be sure to click on the link at the end of the article to get your name on the V.I.P. list for the most up to date information about the classes being offered:
Attention all Gardenerds! Are you a beginning to intermediate
level gardener longing for a basic Organic Gardening 101 class? Maybe you are a veteran gardener who wants to brush up on organic gardening …
I just spent two hours pulling weeds in the front yard. At least I think it was two hours. It could have been 20 hours and I wouldn’t
have noticed the difference; my mind was elsewhere. There’s something very therapeutic about the act of doing repetitive physical movement that let’s the mind go off into
the space where it can solve the problems of the world.
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Since Gardenerd.com is a proponent
of organic gardening and environmentally friendly living practices, we are always looking for ways to spread the word about how to conserve energy, prevent pollution and give back to the
earth. The LA Stormwater Program contacted us and asked if we could publish one of their articles that would help promote their
cause. We are pleased to present this important message from the LA Stormwater program:
I don’t like being cold and wet. I’m pretty clear about that. There is one time, however, when I actually go out of my way to lose all
feeling in my hands and soak myself to the bone – harvesting in the rain.
There’s nothing quite like the smell of wet soil and ozone mixing together as you tromp through the mud. Sticking your hands into an overgrowth of leaves to pick plump peas is somehow more
satisfying than when all is dry. Seeing leaves weighed down with rain, they emit a dark green that only comes to …
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