by Greg Alder | Feb 13, 2026 | Misc |
In 2025, I visited my friend Jacques about once a month to walk through his eclectic garden of edible plants and taste whatever was ripe. Our goal in filming these tours was to generally show the diversity of what can be grown in Southern California and specifically...
by Greg Alder | Feb 5, 2026 | Misc |
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...
by Greg Alder | Jan 9, 2026 | Misc |
To help you make sense of, and apply to your own yard, the experiences I relate in my “Yard Posts,” I’d like to paint a picture of my yard’s physical aspects: where my yard is located, how big it is, the type of soil underneath, the climate above, and so on. I’ll add...
by Greg Alder | Dec 25, 2025 | Misc |
It’s a cornucopia, dig in. Find all of my Yard Posts under the categories and curations below. AVOCADOS California, where are your local avocados? How I girdle avocado trees A tour of John Schoustra’s innovative, organic, low-input, high-density avocado grove...
by Greg Alder | Dec 19, 2025 | Misc |
Dr. White, El Bumpo, Sabor, Lucida, Fino de Jete, Honeyhart, Fortuna, Deliciosa, Pierce, Booth. Who? Cherimoyas! It’s all about cherimoyas in Jacques’ garden this month. Have you ever eaten these “custard apples,” also called Annona cherimola?...
by Greg Alder | Nov 14, 2025 | Misc |
Last month many fruits were ripe in Jacques’ garden that are still available here in November: pomegranates, dragon fruit, pineapple guavas, tamarillos, and persimmons. So we skipped over those in this tour, but we did find a few new items to taste: longans,...
by Greg Alder | Oct 23, 2025 | Misc |
What do you eat? What should you eat? This is a brief, food-for-thought post. Here I put something out there that I’d like to hear your thoughts on because you probably know more about food and think more about food than most people due to the fact that you are...
by Greg Alder | Oct 17, 2025 | Misc |
September got busy for us so Jacques and I toured his garden for ripe treats in early October. We tasted fruits that are mostly available in both months: September + October. But a few usually aren’t ready until October (persimmons and macadamia nuts). As usual...
by Greg Alder | Sep 12, 2025 | Misc |
The funniest thing about touring Jacques’ garden each month is that when I arrive he always says, “There’s not much to eat this month, but we’ll see what we can find.” . . . and this month I had to allow the video to be a bit longer than...
by Greg Alder | Sep 7, 2025 | Misc |
They keep sprouting thanks to your support. Here is a list of them all: Fruit Trees, general: Growing apples in Southern California Growing dragon fruit in Southern California Rejuvenation pruning of stone fruit trees Scion Exchanges (of the California Rare Fruit...
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