Enhancing Nature’s Cover Crop Fields and Hillsides for Pollinators Fields and Hillsides for Pollinators Enhancing Nature’s Cover Crop Any disused field or space will, after some seasonal winter rain in Southern California, burst forth with verdant spontaneity. We tend to call them weeds, these waves of opportunistic plants successively taking over, one species after...
The Pol Robeson Tomato from the February 2023 ACG Newsletter The Paul Robeson tomato is a Russian heirloom tomato named for Paul Robeson, the American singer, actor and human-rights advocate whose legacy is celebrated in this issue. It is not known who cultivated or named this tomato but as its crimson color gradually blackens...
The Altadena Community Garden Perspective from February 2023 ACG Newsletter – Allison Burdett The Garden (ACG) is a unique non-profit organized and volunteer-run by residents of the local community, currently celebrating its fifth decade. The former site of the Mt. Lowe Military Academy, the land reverted to Los Angeles County ownership in the mid-1970s...
It’s All About the Seeds from the February 2023 ACG Newsletter – Sandy Chang A little meeting announcement on the tool shed door carries with it much excitement – excitement not at the contention-prone meetings but in the tiny fine print on the bottom of the notice announcing a seeds giveaway! Seeds are the...
January 28th, 2023 9-11am pruning workshop at the Garden. Learn to maximize the health and productivity of your fruit trees. 2023 Fruit Tree Care Workshop...
Master Gardener Class Musings – Sandy Chang Silvera must have glimpsed evidence of lacking in our plot – be it the overrun nutgrass, the larvae infested cruciferous greens so chewed through that they resembled ragged dishtowels or the deformed ears of corn with missing kernels reminiscent of old men’s missing teeth. So he sent...
Desultory Droppings from October 2021 ACG Newsletter Compost for the cranium Hose Repair – experience, insights and an easy, quick and cheap solution One way to fix a garden hose leak is to cut the hose, clean up the ends and splice them together with a store-bought “hose mender” fitting which includes a rigid...
Horticultural Rhyme-scheme Permutations – Stephen Colley, Altadena CA (Used by permission) My garden may have too much mulch or seem a thistly, gristly gulch, have sometimes more manure than flower, its fleshy fruit less sweet than sour. Sometimes, for no apparent reason, in spite of all my anxious care, it gets neglected for a...