Typically Cool Hunting focuses on art and style type of stories, but this recent video on Carnivorous plants caught my eye for sharing here on A Gardener’s Notebook. Enjoy! — Douglas From CoolHunting.com… “In our latest video we trekked out into the beautiful farmland outside Sebastopol, California to visit California Carnivores, North America’s largest carnivorous [...]
My fellow Saturday6 blogger,”Meems”, has some great advice and reminders for gardeners new and old on the Troy-Bilt web site today. — Douglas Gardening Tips for Beginners and Reminders for Veterans By Cynthia “Meems” Glover, http://www.hoeandshovel.com/ Being a gardener has countless benefits. Sowing a tiny seed into the earth, watering it with faith that a [...]
I came across this idea on Pinterest and, I must say, as a lazy gardener, this could be an excellent way to turn parts of your lawn into garden with very little effort. Place the bags on the area of lawn you want to kill, slice them open and plant away. I would probably also [...]
Found on Pinterest today…. Source: littlegreenfingers.typepad.com via Barbara on Pinterest
Recently from the Houzz.com newsletter… Build a Raised Bed to Elevate Your Garden A bounty of homegrown vegetables is easier than you think with a DIY raised garden bed to house just the right mix of soils 8 Ornamental Grasses for Coastal Gardens These hardy seashore plants evoke the ocean, sway in the [...]
Sounds like a great new Farmer’s Market is getting started in Altadena. My wife is a co-worker of one of the principals of The Institute of Domestic Technology. We probably won’t be able to make until about the 3rd week of June unfortunately due to scheduling conflicts. New Altadena farmers market starts in May The Institute [...]
I came across mention of this new online collection from the Library of Congress via this Metafilter post — The Lantern Slides of Frances Benjamin Johnston. What immediately caught my attention were all the shots of Southern California, including some areas I visit on a regular basis. It is amazing to see what was once [...]
I have been toying around with various container ideas in order to get the most out of my heavily shaded property. We are surrounded by mature trees, so sunlight can be hard to come buy. One way around this is to use containers, large and small, that allow me to move things into the sunniest [...]
Podcast: Play in new window | Download {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. [...]
Visiting one of my computer consulting clients today, I found these amazing azaleas in full bloom in her garden. Teresa says that they were even better before we had the heavy rains over the weekend. I can hardly imagine how much better they could look when they look so fabulous today. Teresa’s garden is located [...]
