Dooming the Broom
On Thursday October 18th, 2012 from 8:30 to noon, the Butte County Fire Safe Council and the Paradise Fire Safe Council are hosting a Doom the Broom training day from 8:30 am – 12 noon in which the goal is… Continue Reading
Gardening in NOrthern California
To Garden in the West: The New Sunset Western Garden Book
I was in my late twenties when I made the move from east-central Vermont to Seattle, Washington in the summer of 1995. My mother traveled with me prior to the real move to help me look for houses, and our… Continue Reading
September in the Garden & Calendar of North State Gardening Events
The summer’s most recent heat wave went on long enough that I became stir-crazy. The ensuing sense of restriction actually motivated me to get outside and do something. Pruning an overgrown hedge was the perfect task. Prior to this last… Continue Reading
An Herb For Everything: Everything Herbal
Susan Tchudi is explaining to me about “adaptogenic” herbs as we walk around the herbal garden growing behind her home at TurkeyTail Farm. “Modern herbalists consider herbs help to calm or soothe the body, neither over-stimulating nor inhibiting normal body… Continue Reading
Late Summer Radiance: Ray Flowers – Echinacea, Rudbeckia, Helenium and their Kin
It was 102 in the shade at 6:15 pm one evening this week. Mid-August and much of the garden looks like a child defeated by a spelling test – head down on the desk, hair mussed, shoulders slumped, face hidden.… Continue Reading
Meet The Masters – the North State Master Gardener Programs
This week we have the pleasure of hearing from Pam Geisel, Statewide Coordinator of the UC Master Gardener Program – several counties of which are accepting applicants for this fall – including Glenn and Shasta. Pam gives us an update… Continue Reading
Summer Review Session: The Right Plants in the Right Place
Besides good soil, and a good design – a garden needs plants that will not only look beautiful for as much of the year as possible, but also be well-suited to the places in which we live and the conditions… Continue Reading
Summer Review Session: An Eye for Design
It does not matter if we are talking about a vegetable garden, an orchard, a courtyard garden, a suburban back yard, or a country manor estate – you can have all the good intention your gardening heart will muster and… Continue Reading
Compost: Black Gold of Your Own Making in the Garden
The long hot days of mid-summer in the North State offers us a summer dormancy of a sorts, where it is often too hot to garden happily, too hot to plant much successfully and sometimes too hot to care. But… Continue Reading
Keeping Company with Flowers: A Glimpse into the World of Pollinators
On my kitchen counter I have not one but two little vases of flowers from the garden. One holds a fragrant pink rose, the other holds a handsome collection of high-dark-coned rudbeckia, flowering mint and lavender. If you are a… Continue Reading
