How to Garden With California Natives: Lessons from the 2016 Theodore Payne Garden Tour

April 5, 2016

...ive chaparral. Spacing can be tricky. You have to pay attention to nursery labels and not plant too far apart or too close together. Not that plants always perform predictably. You have to go back and edit: fill gaps in or take stuff out. The best gardens on the tour got the massing right like the Hessing/Bonfigli garden in Altadena shown in the photo above. Outdoor Rooms My favorite garden on the tour is the Loxton/Clark garden in Pasadena. It’s...

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Should I Put Coffee Grounds in a Worm Bin?

Mr. Homegrown

May 3, 2016

Composting, Gardening, Vermiculture

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...er vegetable scraps and large amounts of fluffy carbon material like cardboard and wood shavings. Now wouldn’t it be great if Elon Musk would fund local Extension Service home gardening research rather than trying to figure out ways to blast rich people into space? We need definitive worm bin advice!...

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Erik Talks Straw Bales on C-Realm Radio

Mr. Homegrown

May 11, 2016

Gardening, Podcasts, Straw Bale Gardening, Vegetable Gardening

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...podcaster (and, as of last month, radio host) KMO. The topic is straw bale gardening. KMO talks first to straw bale garden expert Joel Karsten. Then I chime in enthusiastically on the topic. I’m followed by gardener and artist Lauren Blair. We’re all sort of an opening act for an entertaining 1990s era recording of Terrance McKenna thoughtstyling about “linguistic objects”. One interesting point that Karsten raises is the issue of persistent herbi...

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Tree Bondage

Mr. Homegrown

May 30, 2016

Events, Gardening

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...derstanding Roots” http://www.robertkourik.com/books/understanding-roots.html “Drip Irrigation for Every Landscape and All Climates” “No-Dig Gardening, for a Healthier Soil & a Sustainable Garden”...

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Saturday Tweets: Coffee, Bees and Bog Butter

Mr. Homegrown

June 18, 2016

Saturday Linkages

...le) June 18, 2016 Building a #garden wash station https://t.co/7VDEZ3oIYD #gardening — Tenth Acre Farm (@tenthacrefarm) June 18, 2016 Giant 2,000-year-old hunk of bog butter just found – and it’s still edible https://t.co/YDyjqBxyVZ — Root Simple (@rootsimple) June 13, 2016 Solid reclaimed Wood Chair https://t.co/5voDLBG2Sf — Root Simple (@rootsimple) June 13, 2016 That time a guy and his goat walked across the United States: https://t.co/orakECHv...

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