Garden

Author and straw bale gardener Joel Karsten picks a tomato from one of his bales. The green T-post at front left is connected to another, a few bales away, via wires to which growing, rising vegetable plants can be tied and steadied.The hardest ...

Hold on to your sun hats, kiddos because I have a terrific, stupendous, unprecedented giveaway for you!  Debra Lee Baldwin, author of  Designing with Succulents and Succulent Container Gardens is hosting a fantastic giveaway on Gard...

I have absolutely nothing against itsy bitsy spider and its friends and relatives. Spiders neither repel me nor do they elicit high-pitched shrieks when I come across them (well, if a large one landed on my face in the middle of the night, things might...

Have you ever started reading a book and got so entranced that before you know it hours have past and you haven't cooked dinner, posted on your facebook page (oh no!) and it's time for bed.  That is what happened to me when I received Debra Lee Ba...

While the Davis Food Coop has been our favorite grocery store since we moved here, it’s not exactly the go-to place to buy plants. They do sell small vegetable starts in the spring and the occasional potted plant, but nothing that would rival even th...

Ripening Arapaho Blackberries-Bird Back 40It's berry season in the Bird Back 40. It's about time. It's also early this year thanks to some unseasonably HOT weather in the Sacramento river bottom. Our spring this year should be awarded the film title of...

Want to plant a vegetable garden but have no space (or sun)? Join Sacramento's community gardens. "There's still plenty of time to get a plot and plant!" said Bill Maynard, Sacramento's community garden coordinator. "It makes a great summer activity ...

This past weekend was filled with cactus excitement. Four of my cacti, fairly plain-looking most of the year, flowered. Actually, “flowered” is too lame a word to capture the magnificence of this event. “Exploded” is more like it. It was a flor...

As I was driving to the public library last week, I noticed a group of trees covered with orange blossoms. I couldn’t quite tell what they were from the car, but they looked unusual enough that I decided to go back for a closer look. These are tall s...

Have you ever started a project and discovered that you had a battle ahead of you and were determined to not give up?  Well that is what happened a few weeks ago when I decided to repot a planting I bought last year at the Succulent Extravaganza. ...