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Saturday, June 27th 9am to 5pm
Smart Gardening Fair, Scotts Valley, CA
www.smartgardening.org
Fruits, Food, and Fire: sustainable landscapes that keep you and your home Fire Safe.
A rich abundant landscape gives back to you with tasty organic fruits and vegetables but also can save your home from the threat of wildfires. Learn how the principles of good gardening [...]
Edible landscapes are everywhere it seems rights now: from the front lawn of the White House to the display gardens of slick design magazines. Each spring seed catalogs highlight new colorful varieties of tomato and pepper to add splashes of vibrant color to the vegetable beds.
But all this glossy marketing has a real basis in [...]
Spring seems to sucker punch me every time. Late in February it gets sunny and the nights suddenly get warm. There are tomatoes and peppers at the nursery. So I fall for it and grab some tender seedlings all full of the promise of tasty summer harvests.
But then there is the sucker punch. No sooner [...]
Every time I give a talk, I will mention mulch. I get lots of questions from the audience and it turns into the “mulch hour”.
What is a simple way to improve your garden overnight? Mulch!
What is mulch? Mulch is layer of organic matter, usually chopped bark, compost, chopped leaves, grass clippings or a combination [...]
This is called a fuel ladder. A way for fire to “climb” up into the air, or into the roof of your home.
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