Is an outdoor room in your future?
An outdoor room is the extension of your home, an area in your yard in which you would like to sit, plant a garden or...
Jano Nightingale
Spring cleaning, summer planting
Here in Southern California, my indoor house cleaning time has been replaced by outdoor spring garden cleaning....
Bring the outdoors in with herbs and flowers
If the gray gloom of January has you gazing out the window at your flooded yard, be certain that there is a cure for the...
Volunteer to help reduce food insecurity in North County
A quarter of San Diegans is experiencing or has previously experienced this issue — help by sharing your gardening expertise this new year....
The art of homemade gift giving
This holiday season, consider a gift from the heart, such as a gift from your kitchen or vegetable garden....
Holidays a time for traditions
We all have family memories of holiday traditions this time of year and mine started out in the kitchen of my grandmother’s house....
Jump ahead to spring
Our Mediterranean climate allows us to plant colorful bulbs in November that begin to bloom in January and continue into spring....
Time to garden for the holidays
North County has a growing climate that is perfect for fall vegetable planting, so purchase seed that is acclimated to our climate....
Great pumpkins
If you're a fan of pumpkins of any size, this is your time of the year....
Fall gardening tips, tricks
Those of us who wish to preserve the vegetables that we worked so hard to produce, we might just look back at the wisdom of...
A morning glory brings glorious success
Morning glory is truly not that easy to grow, although once started it will re-seed in one place for years....
Gardening with a passion
The passionflower, Passiflora, has been so named for its exotic flowers and utterly delectable fruit....
The art of collecting garden art
The trick to low-cost decorative gardening is to use a small amount of plant material set off by a piece of pottery or found object....
Pretty as a peach — and pretty tasty as a chutney
It all started with a peach. I have a neighbor who has the most beautiful and plentiful peach tree I have ever seen....
The joy of ‘paying it forward’
Someone left me a gift last week — quite anonymously and unexpected....
