by Greg Alder | Nov 25, 2022 | Misc |
A couple more days and it’s March, in which starts spring. But before we move on, I’ve pulled three lessons from the past winter. 1. Consequences of 28 degrees The coldest night of this 2021-2022 winter in Southern California just passed, on February 23-24. My yard’s...
by Greg Alder | Oct 20, 2022 | Months, October |
“Why are those leaves on the pistache tree yellow?” asked my three-year old son. “Soon they’ll all be yellow — and orange and red — and then they’ll fall. That’s why they call this time of year Fall.” Truth is, in...
by Greg Alder | Sep 30, 2022 | Misc |
I was in Robert Kourik’s neck of the woods this summer, and at that time I happened to be reading his newest book, “Sustainable Food Gardens.” While camping along the Russian River up in Sonoma County, I considered how different his part of...
by Greg Alder | Sep 23, 2022 | Misc |
Sometimes gardening feels like a leisure activity, but sometimes it feels like work: weeds, aphids, gophers, heat waves. At which times I think, Why not just buy all my food at the grocery store? It’s so convenient. You show up any day and choose from all sorts of...
by Greg Alder | Sep 9, 2022 | Misc |
Chance had a problem and a rough idea of the solution. Grasses were taking over his family’s vegetable garden, especially the pathways. Meanwhile, he was raising rabbits for meat. Rabbits eat grass but they also eat vegetable plants so he needed to...
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