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Gardenerd on KFWB 980 Talk Radio

Posted on January 27, 2010 by Christy

During the Go Green Expo on the weekend of January 22-24, 2010, Gardenerd.com got a little media attention. Cindy Dole of Home Wizards was at the Go Green
Expo interviewing a few people about their efforts to help green the planet. I was delighted to be invited to her booth for an interview.

On a side note, there was a terrific couple who happened to be driving around listening to the radio that afternoon. When they heard the interview,
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Winter Citrus Bounty

Posted on January 20, 2010 by Christy

During the summer months, I’m famous for my lemon sorbet. I use Meyer lemons from the tree outside the back door and feed the finished product to my
girlfriends when we get together for high tea or some other summer thing that girls do. Now that it’s winter, not many people are thinking about lemon sorbet, except for my friend Orna, who has
a tree full of lemons and doesn’t know what to do with them. She recently …
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Come Join Us at the Go Green Expo

Posted on January 20, 2010 by Christy

We’re heading into our first (and most likely only) trade show of the
year. You can come visit the Gardenerd.com booth, #106, to get your burning gardening questions answered, enter for a chance to win an Ultimate Garden Bag, and pick up some of your favorite
Gardenerd Gear at …

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White Grubs in the Garden

Posted on January 14, 2010 by Christy

A gardener wrote in recently:

“Hi, I am trying to learn how to Organic Garden. My 25 x 5 raised garden bed has a major grub worm infestation. Every foot I dig, there are 10 or more grub worms. They
destroy any seed I plant. I applied milky spore all over my raised garden bed. What else should I do?  I would love to be able to grow onions and beets this spring. I will greatly appreciate any
and all suggestions or advise for …
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Happiness with Hypertufa

Posted on January 14, 2010 by Christy

In an attempt to attend more garden-related events and workshops this year (call it a New Year’s resolution, but with more pleasure involved), I set out on
Saturday for a Hypertufa workshop with Steve Garischer of Larkspur Garden Designs at the Theodore Paine Foundation.

Hyper-who-huh?

Let me e’splain:  Tufa is a sedimentary rock similar to travertine that can be carved into paving stones, planters, urns and such. it is very expensive and very heavy. …
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New Home Construction for Worms

Posted on December 31, 2009 by Christy

Santa was very good to me this year. I got the Worm Factory that I wished for, and we couldn’t wait to move our worms to their new home. My husband and I
carefully read through the instructions that were included with the Factory and found it very informative – above and beyond the usual information that you might see in a vermiculture
pamphlet.

We assembled the unit, and then moved on …
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Field Trip: Napa Valley

Posted on December 31, 2009 by Christy

Before we launch into a new year, I want to share another aspect of the Grow BioIntensive workshop that I took in Willits last month. It isn’t really about
the workshop, but about the drive back home.

I am of the ilk that, as an important part of the traveling experience, one must buy what is made locally when traveling through a region – like picking up some lavender oil while in Provence, or
grabbing some balsamic vinegar …
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First Winter Harvest 2009

Posted on December 23, 2009 by Christy

After a few days of rain, the garden is basically on autopilot. There’s no need to water, and the plants somehow grow overnight on their own without any help
from the gardener. These are the days where we actually don’t have to do anything but harvest.

Even though we’ve been harvesting since late October, Monday the 21st was the first day of winter and therefore the harvest that day was indeed the first official winter harvest. Since we
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Christmas Garden Wish List ’09

Posted on December 23, 2009 by Christy

In my family, the holiday wish list is requested from each member sometime in September and then no one is allowed to buy themselves anything they put on the
list until after Christmas. It’s hard to comply sometimes, especially when all they stuff I want usually goes on sale.   My list consists mainly of gardening supplies, so it has become a
tradition to post the wish list on the Gardenerd Blog each year. So without further adieu… …
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Malibu Vegetable Garden Delight

Posted on December 17, 2009 by Christy

I had the good fortune to be introduced to Shalane Respondek and her world of LEED certified property development. She brought me in to design a vegetable
garden for her new Malibu property over the summer. They were still finishing the house and major landscaping projects, so it would be awhile before we could start on the garden, but the ideas
were flowing from the beginning.

I saw …
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