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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Add Some Beer To Your Swedish Composter!

Tweet Not the beer itself, of course, but the grains used to make it– barley, corn, oats, rye and wheat. They’re a great source of nitrogen once they’ve been malted and used to make that cold bottle of Bud. Brewery grains pair particularly well with a bin composter, like the Jorg Composter I mentioned in [...]

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