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So You Want to Kill Your Lawn and Create a Sense of Place - an Interview with Michael Cook(1)
September 6, 2010
By Jennifer Jewell
An arid summer is a fact of life for North State gardeners. It’s the dry side of our Mediterranean climate. But ever-increasing awareness around the need for water conservation and creative use and re-use of water (as well as all of our resources including time and money) is a fact of life no matter where you live or garden. Photo: The dr…
September in the Garden & Monthly Calendar of Regional Gardening Events
September is a transitional sort of month – has a difficult time making up its mind – am I Summer? Am I fall? Am I hot? Or am I cooling? No matter what the weather and the inevitability of the quite beautiful waning light of September making our way towards the Autumnal Equinox on the 22nd -– it is one my favorite times in the garden. Plants have most…
The Lovely Wild Buckwheats - Eriogonum in the Garden - an interview with John Whittlesey, Canyon Creek Nursery & Design
It’s August. It’s hot and dry in interior northern California and in most cases, our gardens are looking a little…worn, a little worse for the wear of our long, hot, dry summers. Every gardener I know, prefaces a high or late summer visit to their garden with the warning: “You can come, but you won’t be seeing…
Planning and Planting your Fall and Winter Vegetable Garden with George Winter
The time has come again to plant for fall and winter vegetables. I love this time of year! George Winter of Wyntour Gardens and Red Bluff Garden Center gave us this advice last year:
Planting a vegetable garden just seems to go along with spring, doesn’t it? Like an instinctive and seasonal rite of passage. But, says George Winter, owne…
‘edible Shasta-Butte’
