Interplanting Nursery Bought Veggies

Alden Lane, our incredibly beautiful local nursery is built around and under several towering old-growth oak trees. It’s so beautiful it makes it on my local tour for foreign friends, together with our cursed Livermore totem pole (read the story here), and the Guinness Book of word records oldest lightbulb (see it in action here)….

Research roundup. January Takeaways

Alright, I’ve been at this for a little over a month, we’re coming off a rainy week in Livermore, and there’s a lot to take away from several of my gardening attempts so far. Fails: Outdoor lettuce in coconut coir: I think the most epic fail this month was seeding lettuce outside in a think…

The pea sprouts are up!

The pea sprouts I put in the ground yesterday are up! Okay, the frost could still kill them off, but today is New Year’s Day, and I woke up to a little tiny peeping pea sprout of hope. Hopefully you all have your own tiny pea sprout of hope this year. Or a cocktail. Happy…