gardening

Compost Happens

Now that it’s autumn, now is a great time to collect the bounty of fall leaves for composting that will ensure a healthy garden next year. For your soil, there is no better ingredient than compost, whether you till it into garden beds or use it as mulch around shrubs and trees. Considered essential to [...]

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Dandelion: Much More than a Lawn Menace

Many wild plants and “weeds” are some of the most nutrient-dense greens you can eat. It is only in the past 100 or so years, as our food system became more and more industrialized, that wild superfoods dropped out of our diet. So I try to include them in mine when I can. This past [...]

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Keeping Cool with Lavender Lemonade

Lavender is blooming now in my garden, not only looking and smelling beautiful, but attracting bees and other pollinators to the rest of my plants. Lavender is easy to grow in any well-drained soil, and is a relatively drought tolerant, perennial plant that adds interest to any garden with its grey leaves and tall, purple [...]

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A New Garden

Today I planted a ring of onion seeds around each of my four tomato plants to help protect them from pests. Then I transplanted my baby kale plants to a sunnier place in the garden. This is my first Southern California garden, though I have been gardening both as a hobby and as a professional [...]

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