Saturday Tweets: The Earth Laughs in Flowers

August 27, 2016

....co/H0pXswquWG via @YouTube — Root Simple (@rootsimple) August 27, 2016 20 Native North American Foods with Stories to Tell https://t.co/8IBMl28fKB — Root Simple (@rootsimple) August 27, 2016 A Museum Dedicated to Miniature Architectural Models Opens in Tokyo @WTerrada https://t.co/YY2Vcj37Lv pic.twitter.com/N5W6oZ2HGn — Colossal (@Colossal) August 24, 2016 Angered over Sap, Man Cuts Down Tree, Sending It onto His Own Apartment House https://t.co/...

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Tomato Grafting Fail

Mr. Homegrown

September 26, 2016

Gardening, Tomatoes

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...d to have volunteer cherry tomatoes along a wall now dominated by a massive Vitus californica vine. Next year I’m going to keep things simple, choose a drought tolerant tomato from Native Seed Search and plant it directly in the ground early in the season. How did your tomatoes do this year? What kind did you grow?...

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Bidens rebuttal

Mrs. Homegrown

November 8, 2016

Gardening, Least Favorite Plant

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...busy cloud of insects buzzing around this mystery plant: honeybees, little native bees and flies and these tiny orange-ish moths that I’ve never seen before. Good pollinator plants remind me of space stations (the kind in movies, that is): complex structures full of vehicles of different sizes approaching, docking, departing, filling the airspace with frantic activity all the day long.This was definitely a good pollinator plant, an important sourc...

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Surface Walk with Nance Klehm Saturday February 11th

Mr. Homegrown

February 9, 2017

Events

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...he Bowtie Project exploring the human uses and ecological functions of the native and spontaneous vegetation at the site. On this walk we will investigate how the vegetation relates to the ecology and vitality of the soil that supports it. Surface Walk is part of Nance Klehm’s Bowtie residency titled Double Pairing. Nance Klehm has been an ecological systems designer, landscaper, horticultural consultant, and permacultural grower for more than two...

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What Tree Should I Plant? Cal Poly’s SelecTree Has the Answer

Mr. Homegrown

July 28, 2017

Gardening, Trees

...se called SelecTree that will help you find the right tree for your yard. Or, let’s say, you’re bored with hours spent adding movies to your Netlix queue that you never plan to watch (one of my vices). How about searching for oddball trees instead? What about a California native tree with favorable fire resistance, low root damage potential that produces edible fruit? The database came up with two options, the hollyleaf cherry (Prunus ilicifolia)...

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