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Straw Bale Garden Tour Part II

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Gardening, Straw Bale Gardening, Vegetable Gardening, Videos
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...growing are Tromboncino squash, Lunga di Napoli squash (growing up into a native bush), Matt’s Wild Cherry tomato, Celebrity tomato, eggplant and Swiss chard. And just to take down my smugness a notch I also included a shot of an unsuccessful cucumber plant. Other than the cucumber, though, this is one of the most productive vegetable gardens I’ve ever planted. I’m now a big fan of the straw bale method. The music is by Karaoke Mouse–“Shanghai Re...

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Thankful for the New Rain Garden

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Garden Design, Gardening, Native Plants
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...Kelly has just started planting the wet lower part of the rain garden with native plants including water loving Douglas irises (Iris douglasiana). She planted the dry outer edges with desert willow (Chilopsis linearis), coyote mint (Monardella villosa) and assorted grasses. Alas, my hopes of building a little boat in which to row back and forth across our new seasonal pond have been dashed by the fact that our soil drains quickly (which is a good...

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Seaweed Foraging

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Food, Foraging
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...orted by the LA Times. Back to seaweed. Here’s a few resources: California Native Plant Society article (pdf) on California Seaweeds Fin + Forage Kelp Identification guide A guide to brown seaweeds The sea forager’s guide to the Northern California coast by Kirk Lombard and Leighton Kelly (has a short section on seaweed) LA Times article on seaweed foraging in Southern California (I’ll note that I’ve heard conflicting information on whether SoCal...

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