No, they are not those kinds of poppies. The Antelope Valley California Poppy Reserve and the surrounding poppy fields are covered with California poppies and they are all in glorious full bloom right now. Drive through the right part of… Read more ›
These past few days, I have spent some bopping around Lancaster. Enough to know that it is mostly desert country. Mohave desert country to be specific. Beautiful in its own terribly dry and scorching hot way. It is a place… Read more ›
This week’s product to review was sent to me by Fine Gardening magazine. It was a set of DVDs that were presented to me by Fine Gardening as a great resource of information on very focused gardening topics. I got… Read more ›
My sister, knowing that I am both a gardening nut and a food snob, suggested that we stop by the LA Farmer’s Market on our way home from the airport. Of course, in LA, “stopping by” anything seems to be… Read more ›
It is late and I am attempting to perform a feat that I have not oft done voluntarily since I was in college. (I bet you were thinking “doing 10 shots of tequila?â€. Nope, that is not it. I have… Read more ›
49 little seedlings all in a row (well, a square), happy, growing and…nameless. Well, maybe not nameless, per se. They started out with names. Oddball names like “Japanese Black Trifele†and “Cosmonaut Volkovâ€. Names that I had found amusing and,… Read more ›
Yesterday I reviewed the book “The Truth about Organic Gardening” by Jeff Gillman. I had the good luck of being able to do a Q & A with Dr. Gillman. Below the results… Just we get it out of the… Read more ›
I find organic gardening to be an odd beast. A search on the internet would have you believe that the gardening world is overwhelmingly organic fanatics, while anyone who uses any sort of chemicals is akin to rapists and Osama Bin… Read more ›
Today is my 2nd blogiversary. Which is great! I honestly never saw this coming. All of this. All of you. All this fun! And I thought I would share with you what this blog means to me, because it is… Read more ›
There is nothing more reviving to a gardener (especially in the throes of late winter) as the smell of dirt. Many of us start our seeds WAY too early and I don’t think the reason for this is to be… Read more ›
