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Free Mulch Giveaway – City of Los Angeles

Information from the City of LA Web Site… Free Mulch Give-Away The Free Mulch Give-Away program is available to all L.A. Residents. The Bureau of Sanitation is “Closing The Loop” by providing free quality mulch in 11 different locations throughout the City of Los Angeles that are open to the public. Instructions: Bring your own shovel, bag [...]

Horticulture Jobs Available – Enter Your Location

Check out our list of horticulture jobs (and others) available via SimplyHired.com. Enter your location for jobs close to you. You can also search on other keywords.

Winner: DK Simple Steps to Success – Shrubs and Trees

I have chosen the winner for our DK Simple Steps to Success – Shrubs and Trees book giveaway. The lucky winner is Ishieta C.! They have been notified by email. Thanks to all the entered. Watch this blog for more — and bigger — giveaways in the coming months!

Gardening playlist from Douglas’ YouTube Channel

You can find mangy garden videos over on my YouTube Channel. You can subscribe to that channel to get notice of new videos. You can also watch all the garden-related videos using the playlist shown below. If you can’t see the video above, please watch the playlist on YouTube     Subscribe to my YouTube [...]

Event: The Los Angeles Zoo Docents’ Garden Boutique and Bake Sale – Sunday, June 3rd, 2012

What do flowers & flour have in common? The Los Angeles Zoo Docents’ Garden Boutique and Bake Sale Benefiting the LA Zoo Docents’ National 2012 AZAD Conference – an annual conference, this year inviting zoo and aquarium docents from all over the U.S. to enjoy the hospitality of Southern California. We invite you to support [...]

Book Giveaway: DK Simple Steps to Success – Shrubs and Trees

I have been looking through my book stack and found this nice, little, book to offer as an AGN Giveaway item. Complete the options in the Rafflecopter widget below to enter. You can get up to 3 entries by commenting on this post, following AGN or Twitter or giving AGN a Like on Facebook. Giveaway [...]

AGN joins Troy-Bilt for another season of the Saturday6™!

It’s Spring here in the northern hemisphere and time for gardening to kick into high gear. It’s also time for another season of Troy-Bilt’s Saturday6! For the second year in a row, I have been asked — along with 5 of my fellow bloggers — to be part of this program for Troy-Bilt. This involves [...]

My favorite shared gardening items for April 2012

Here are my favorite shared gardening items for April 2012. How many plants per container? Leaf Magazine Spring 2012 Seed starters out of paper pulp Straw Bale Raised bed Skippy’s Vegetable Garden: tomato cages Stone Feet The Obsessive Gardener: Green and Cheap Plant Starters Love Apple Farms: How We Plant a Tomato New Altadena farmers [...]

Check out some of my favorite gardening books and tools in the WelchWrite Bookstore and more!

 Check out some of my favorite gardening books and tools in the WelchWrite Bookstore and more!

Updated: Coming this weekend! — Tomatomania 2012 dates announced!

{EAV:f454b6e09db07d70} Tomatomania, the annual tomato seedling extravaganza has just announced it’s dates for 2012. It looks like they have added a few new locations, too. Each Tomatomania has hundreds of different varieties of tomatoes ready to take home to your own garden and kick start your Summer growing. Here is a video I shot last [...]