Talk on Fruit tree pests with CRFG South Bay

Talk on Fruit tree pests with CRFG South Bay

Join me and the California Rare Fruit Growers, South Bay (Los Angeles) chapter on Saturday, March 16, for a talk on fruit tree pests. The meeting will be held at the South Coast Botanic Garden in Palos Verdes, starting at 9:45 AM. Please see the South Bay...
2024 Yard Posts calendar

2024 Yard Posts calendar

The new 2024 Yard Posts food gardening calendar is here! I selected beautiful and honest photos from my yard and elsewhere in Southern California for each month, and I packed in lots of info on vegetables, fruit trees, and watering. For each month, I’ve got...
Supporting The Yard Posts

Supporting The Yard Posts

My goal with The Yard Posts is to help others grow food at home, with a focus on vegetables and fruits — especially avocados — in Southern California. How do I do this? I write short articles – “posts” – each Friday, and I augment each post with photos and...
Cher’s garden of gratitude

Cher’s garden of gratitude

Cher is 73 now. She’s had both hips replaced – her left hip twice – and she is still working on the flexibility in her new right knee. She showed me how deeply she can squat, which is important for two activities that she loves: gardening and surfing. I met Cher and...
Dead spots in a yard

Dead spots in a yard

First I planted a Granny Smith apple. Second I planted a Sharwil avocado. Then I planted another Sharwil avocado. Finally I planted a Flavor Grenade pluot in this spot, but it too died. It was then that I realized it was not me killing these trees, it was this...
Common garden weeds in Southern California

Common garden weeds in Southern California

The off-season rain of Hurricane Hilary on August 20 gave a rare opportunity for both warm-season and cool-season weeds to germinate at the same time. I thought I would take advantage by photographing the young seedlings as they came up. I chose to post here only the...
You are what you eat eats

You are what you eat eats

Whenever I feed my chickens or fertilize my vegetables and fruit trees I hear the phrase, “You are what you eat eats.” “You are what you eat” is a phrase we all know, and it means that our bodies consist of whatever we put into them. The lesson...
Eliminating ants from potted plants

Eliminating ants from potted plants

When ants have made a full-time home in the rootball of one of my potted plants, I use a cheap, non-toxic substance to get rid of them. It’s called water. I’ll explain how I go about this using the example of one of my coffee plants, which last week became...
List of Yard Posts

List of Yard Posts

They keep sprouting up, these Yard Posts, like coffee beans growing into seedlings. Here I have them all listed and categorized. Each title is a link. And every time I write a new post, I add it to this list so consider it up to date. Thank you for your support so...
Native bee nesting blocks

Native bee nesting blocks

A few years ago I built a nesting block for native bees. I was hoping to increase their numbers by giving them an attractive nesting site so that I could in turn receive their pollination of my vegetables and fruit trees. I additionally planted flowers. My efforts...

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