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LA Cracks Down On Parkway Vegetable Gardens

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Gardening
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...Los Angeles apparently has nothing better to do than crack down on parkway vegetable gardens two years after hassling Ron Finley. Steve Lopez, a columnist for the Los Angeles Times, wrote a great column about this ridiculous situation, “L.A. still saying parkway vegetable gardens must go.” And above you can hear Lopez joined by Finley and Councilman Bernard Parks (who sounds like the president of an excuse factory) discuss the situation. Please Tw...

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The Perfect Crisis Vegetable: Prickly Pear Cactus

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Gardening, Vegetable Gardening
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...lot more work and, likely, disappointment. Trust me, I’ve killed a lot of vegetables in the past twenty years. I’ve never once killed a prickly pear cactus. Luther Burbank’s allegedly spineless prickly pear. We have one specimen that came with the house and another that I picked up a few years ago: Luther Burbank’s spineless variety that, well, isn’t actually spineless. My favorite method for preparing and eating the pads is to scrape them with a...

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Anne Hars’ Top Ramen Keyhole Vegetable Garden

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Gardening, Permaculture, Vegetable Gardening
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...lanted things that go well in Top Ramen.” Hars is referring to her keyhole vegetable bed that she created this winter. With the keyhole, Hars has made good use of a very small front yard with a dense planting of Ramen friendly veggies including bok choi, three kinds of kale, sunflowers, carrots, peas, garlic, radishes, spinach, romaine lettuce, cilantro and parsley. Anne with husband Bill and Petra the chihuahua. She was inspired by a video by the...

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Build a vegetable prison to keep out raccoons and skunks

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Gardening, Pests
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.... All that was left to do was screw the whole thing together and staple the 14-Guage welded wire from Home Despot. The access panels have two positions. Down to protect small seedlings: And up to act as a trellis and allow tall plants to grow out the top: I’ve noticed that once plants get established and past the 2-foot point I don’t usually have to worry about those midnight raccoon parties. Obviously, if I had to deal with deer I’d have to build...

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