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Root Simple Edible Gardening Classes at the Huntington Ranch

Mr. Homegrown
Events
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There are still some spots available for our edible gardening class at the Huntington that starts this Saturday. In the course of the three consecutive Saturday sessions, we’ll build a compost pile, dissect soil test reports, make a seed starting mix and discuss incorporating fruit trees and native plants into your edible landscape among many other topics. The class will be held at the Huntington’s spectacular Ranch. Here’s th...

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Food and Flowers Freedom Act Update

Mr. Homegrown
Thoughtstylings
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...s taken. It tuned out the council was pre-occupied with a contentious debate over rent control that ended in a fight breaking out and the council chambers being cleared. At least, it seems, we can all get behind locally grown fruit and flowers. For more information on the history of the Food and Flowers Freedom Act, see the website of the Urban Farming Advocates....

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Bringing Blossoms Inside

Mrs. Homegrown
Domesticus, Gardening
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It’s such a simple thing to do, and so beautiful. If you’re trimming your fruit trees while they’re in bud, as they are now here in SoCal, keep all those twigs and bring them indoors. Stubby little ones can go in jam jars. Long thin whips in a vase make for instant elegance. They’ll keep blooming for a while. For me, no store-bought cut flower can compare....

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Mistakes we have made . . .

Mr. Homegrown
Animals, Chickens, Permaculture, Thoughtstylings
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...ain, I had failed to follow my own advice–plant in season and in respect of place. Hops belong in the Pacific Northwest. In contrast, the heat loving prickly pear cactus in our front yard provides both tasty nopales and fruit reliably every year while growing in terrible alkaline soil with no added water or fertilizer. The problem with the prickly pear is that it is too prodigious, and that’s the kind of problem you can hope for as an...

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Upcoming Classes: Edible Gardening and Vermicomposting

Mr. Homegrown
Events
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...Pest Management, including methods to maximize year-round harvest in Southern CaliforniaSession 2: Soil Science, Intermediate Composting, and Aerated Compost TeaSession 3: Drip System Construction and Best PracticesSession 4: Fruit-Tree Care, Planting, and Pruning Vermicomposting with Nancy Klehm If you live in or around LA, we encourage you to take this unique class that we’re hosting in the Silver Lake area. While it’s pretty ea...

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Urine as a Fertilizer

Mr. Homegrown
Gardening, Vegetable Gardening
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...rs. With some common sense urine application (i.e. not too much), it clearly makes a good fertilizer: Stored Human Urine Supplemented with Wood Ash as Fertilizer in Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) Cultivation and Its Impacts on Fruit Yield and Quality by Surendra K. Pradhan, Jarmo K. Holopainen and Helvi Heinonen-Tanski: This study evaluates the use of human urine and wood ash as fertilizers for tomato cultivation in a greenhouse. Tomatoes were cul...

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Vertical Vegetables

Mr. Homegrown
Gardening, Self Watering Containers, Thoughtstylings, Vegetable Gardening
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...vegetable wall happy. But growing vertically does not have to mean attaching roots to a wall. I can think of two simple vertical vegetable garden strategies where that $1,000 would go a lot further. How about simply favoring fruits and vegetables that either grow vertically naturally, say pole beans, grapes, peas or kiwi or that can be convinced with a bit of pruning to go vertical, such as tomatoes, melons and winter squash? Mel Bartholomew has...

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