A flower arrangement for Mrs. Hardy, and countless other items on the day’s to do list scrambled me just enough to end up driving across town to The Family Plot, without a basket or bucket. Luckily I had some plastic cups in the trunk. A baby cauliflower, a few beets…My dash and back seat were [...]
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Flowers For Open House
Posted in Cutting Garden, The Family Plot, winter garden, tagged Carnival, flowers, Los Cerritos Elementary, strawberries, sweet peas on April 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Community of Gardens
Posted in Edible-Herbes, Edible-Vegetables, Edibles-Flowers, Edibles-Fruit, Food Politics, School Garden, Small Spaces, winter garden, tagged community garden, csa, eat the view, rancho los cerritos, school gardens, small space gardens, urban farming, white house vegetable garden on March 20, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Last night the White House announced that Michelle Obama is taking out 1100 square feet of the White House lawn and planting a vegetable garden. You can read more about the “eat the view” movement at Kitchen Gardeners International, and see the plans. This is awesome! It’s the first step toward food reform and a [...]
Oak Leaf Lettuce
Posted in Edible-Vegetables, The Family Plot, winter garden, tagged lettuce, mache, shade garden, spinach on March 18, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The lettuces went in the ground after the broccoli came out about a month ago. They are tasty and beautiful right now, but it might be done in a couple of weeks if it gets hot. Out at the Family Plot a neighbor and resident lettuce expert, has been just mowing his crop down and [...]
Apricot Update
Posted in Edibles-Fruit, winter garden, tagged apricots, bees, blenheim, blossoms, fruit set, spring, tilton, tomcot on March 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Just a few, scant weeks ago the apricot tree was in full bloom. Tree covered with blossoms, blossoms covered with bees, us covered with smiles. Spring has sprung we thought. Kiely could see her special apricot & cream cheese delight in the offing, Griffin is focused on NOT hitting the baseball through the tree. However, [...]
Wisteria – March 09
Posted in winter garden, tagged spring, weather, wisteria on March 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The spring indicator at my home is the white wisteria bush on the front fence. This photo was taken March 13, 2007. The buds are just beginning to grow long, and the sculptural vine is still mostly bare. The photo below was taken 30 days later, in April o7. This is what the vine will [...]
