Earth Day – free Soil ebook!
In celebration of “Earth Day” weekend, you can get my Soil ebook for free! The Secrets of Soil Building – Learn how to care for the Earth (the soil) today and every day. The coupon code for the free ebook is GJ98G…
It’s Garden Planning Time
I know, I know, it’s the middle of the holidays. But garden catalogs are pouring through my mail slot, and that means it’s prime time for planning your cool season garden. After the winter solstice, all those cool season veggies…
What is a more-sustainable garden?
Here’s how our gardens can become part of solving some of the world’s greatest problems. LIVING ECOSYSTEMS. Humanity is part of a vast network of life on this tiny planet. The planet’s ecosystems operate as intricate interconnected and interdependent systems,…
When you don’t have any land
Do you love the idea of vegetable gardening and edible landscaping? Do you wish you could participate – if only you had access to land? If land is your problem (inadequate space, an unwilling landlord, whatever) then my newest booklet…
How do you get rid of Bermuda grass?
Many popular garden books promote methods such as the “Lasagna method”: You layer materials such as cardboard, black plastic, compost, mulch, etc., on top of grass and create a garden. In Southern California we must evaluate such recommendations carefully: Does…
Easy seedsaving without worries
It’s easy to get seed from your vegetables. Just let Nature do her thing. It’s a little bit more challenging to be sure that you’re getting the kinds of seeds you want. Plants (kinda like outdoor cats) make offspring quite willingly,…
VegGarden365 app
How do you know what to plant when? Here in Southern California we have a year-round growing season. But that doesn’t mean super-delicious tomatoes every day of the year. Rather, it means working with the seasons — warm, hot, and…
A quick and easy cool-season vegetable garden
After a rain, the weeds sprout — so quickly that you can almost hear them. What if the green that magically appeared wasn’t weeds, but food plants? Your cool-season vegetable garden can be just that easy! And, this time of…
What can crop rotation do for you and your garden?
Do you need a powerful tool to help you with organic pest control AND maintaining soil fertility in your vegetable garden? Crop rotation means following a conscious system of planting in which related plants are grown in different spots year…
What’s in your El Niño garden?
Oh, this is the season for leafy greens and root vegetables — and an El Niño year is no exception! They grow plenty of veggies in English gardens and (although we in So Cal may be unaccustomed to it) that’s the…