C-Ville: All You Can Eat – Everyone's going agro: How does your city garden grow?
L’étoile chef/owner Mark Gresge knows the secret to super-fresh ingredients: Grow your own! (Photo by Cramer Photo) Urban farming is one of the hottest trends in food right now. Maybe it’s the economy, or maybe it’s that nothing beats the satisfaction of eating food that you grew and dug up yourself. Lush lawns are being [...]
Gardening trends will show up on many home and garden tours in and around Silicon Valley
If you love gardening, you’re not alone. Gardening has consistently been in the top five favorite hobbies of Americans ever since the Harris Poll began keeping track of U.S. pastimes, but it seems that lately there’s been an increasing passion for all things green. As the world grows ever more complex and maddening, some people [...]
Master Gardener – Sowing seed to prep for spring transplanting
You don’t need a greenhouse to grow healthy transplants, and many varieties can easily be started indoors over the next month to transplant outside in spring. What you can grow Many summer vegetable and flower seeds can be started indoors four to eight weeks before the last average spring frost, which occurs about April 15 [...]
What to get a Garden Lover for Valentine's Day
Lawndale, CA (PRWEB) February 09, 2012 With Valentine’s Day an arrow shot away, thoughts turn to what to get a loved one. while fresh-cut roses and chocolate bon bons certainly top the list as go-to gifts –– Tesselaar Plants suggests — especially for garden lovers — an edible rose for the garden. “Environmentally friendly roses [...]
Palo Alto Online : A garden that delights
by Elizabeth LorenzPalo Alto Weekly Staff View all photos (5) It started out as a cabbage patch. One neighbor even wrote a poem about it. Nowadays, Willows resident Marilyn Waterman’s front yard is far from a cabbage patch. there aren’t even any cabbages planted alongside the grapevines, apple tree, artichokes, strawberries, blueberries and rhubarb that [...]
Companion gardening principals allow garden plants to help each other
By LINDA BRANDT Correspondent Published: Friday, October 28, 2011 at 1:00 a.m. last Modified: Thursday, October 27, 2011 at 1:21 p.m. While we gardeners and casual observers are looking above ground for the obvious fruits, flowers, disease and insects, plants are subtly and actively changing the chemistry of the soil and influencing the growth of [...]
Master Gardeners: Summer’s best recipe — fruits and veggies in containers
IF YOUR GARDEN is steep or small and you’re interested in vegetable gardening, containers are an excellent option. A few strategically placed, colorful pots overflowing with seasonal edibles can really keep things interesting on your patio, porch or deck — and put food on your table. Even if you already have a vegetable garden but [...]
Capuchina /Nasturtium /Tropaeolum majus
Nasturtiums are loved for their rich, saturated – toned colors such as pale yellow, to vibrant oranges and reds. They’re one of the tastiest and easiest to grow. Hummingbirds like the bright flowers, but alas so also do black aphids. There is a belief that to grow nasturtiums outside the garden attracts all the aphids [...]
Yellow Kitchenaid Mixer
Nasturtiums are best known for their fiery colors of reds, oranges, yellows and golds. looking like a Victorian lady’s parasol, these dainty flowers are framed by round emerald green leaves. for a brilliant splash of color in the garden try planting the bright red ‘Empress of India’ Nasturtiums. or, light up a flowerbed with the [...]
Fennel and Fern | Blog | Unruly plants and comic pots
Every now and then, usually when numbers are low, I worry that the activities on offer at the school gardening club I run are a bit…well, samey. obviously it has to be that way. After all, there’s no point in sowing carrots outside in November.one of my club staples is making comic plant pots which [...]