Yesterday was the New Moon, said to be the best time to start the quick-germinating seeds. So I sowed ( Read more... )

Hello fellow gardeners!

My partner and I would like to get a Bay Tree or shrub as an edible. (To use the bay leaves in cooking.)

Do you know anywhere that sells these?

Thank you!

We're always rolling in food in August, aren't we?
( picspam of gardenporn )

What vegetables would you plant now, for a bay area fall/winter garden? As I harvest, I'm freeing up space that I'd love to use.

Copied from my personal LJ ( Read more... )

I've been noticing a tree flowering along the freeways in the South Bay for the last month or so. It's pretty tall and the flowers are orange and look fuzzy. Think bottle brush tree flower but orange and squashed. Anybody here know what they are? I really like them.

In the ground today: Kentucky Wonder pole bean seeds. Already up from two weeks ago: Violet Podded Stringless and Gold of Bacau pole beans. Still waiting to be sown: 5 kinds of bush beans, and a Greek pole bean that was forced upon me at the seed exchange last Friday. Hope it's a warm summer ( Read more... )

Here in normally-placid coastal Mendocino, we are getting whipsawed by the weather. Was it just a week ago it was 90 in the shade, within sight of the ocean? Since then we've had fog, wind, cold, and more wind. Now it's raining, a fine soft cold drizzle like we'd expect in November or April ( Read more... )

"One of the controversial aspects of the exhibition is guerrilla gardening using seed bombs. Tours of Manchester will be arranged where people will be dropping seed bombs around the city. "Is this illegal?" I ask. "Probably," replies Brydon.I find myself not minding this idea. I've long wanted to have a pickup truck with a giant leaf-blower thing ( Read more... )

Last night's dinner was stir-fried vegetables, mostly from the garden. Nothing unusual about that, except it was the first harvest from this year's plantings: the bok choy and Michihli cabbage seeded in February, set out in March, is now mature. Predictably, it is trying to bolt, so we'll have to eat it up quickly. Favas are also coming on strong ( Read more... )