A Gardener's Thoughts & Fancies

The Monthly Gardner – May – Growing Your Own Vegetables

Tweet May is the month to finish up your spring planting by focusing on those heat-loving vegetables. While many of Southern California’s native plants are beginning to shut down for the dry summer months, if you plant your vegetables now and keep them well mulched and watered, they should flourish throughout the summer and provide [...]

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Vegetable Gardens – Good For Your Health & Pocketbook

Tweet Given our country’s financial situation – the debt crisis, the drop in our credit rating, the falling stock market and the rising cost of food – it makes perfect sense for the First Lady to turn a portion of the White House lawn into a vegetable garden. I mean, who needs all that manicured [...]

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December’s Gardening Tips

Tweet Here are few suggestions: Transplant: it’s a great time to transplant, but be sure to keep new transplants well-watered if the weather is mild and dry. In warmer regions, now through February, after a killing freeze or a frost, is a good time to move a rose. Transplant it with as much of the [...]

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