Cityscape Seeds
Resources for my talk at the National Heirloom Festival
Here are some links and resources to accompany my talk at the National Heirloom Festival: Link to my VegGarden365 garden planning app (Free!) Link to my Abundant Harvests garden booklets Link to my Vegetable Crop Rotation Wheel garden planning tool
Origami Seed Envelopes
Here’s how to make an instant seed envelope out of any square of paper. If you’re a crazy seed-saving person like myself, this will come in handy. You can use any scrap of paper, grocery store receipt, newspaper, junk mail,…
Beautiful collard story
I just watched this lovely video about collard greens and their deep history in the U.S. Here is our local-to-L.A. collard variety, ‘L.A. Green Glaze’ collards, which I have been growing and developing for over 16 years.
Alderman peas
If the only peas you’ve ever tasted are those chalky greyish marbles from the grocery store’s freezr section, you’re really missing out! Alderman peas are sweet, tender, and delicious. They’ve got a depth of flavor, a “greenness,” that gives them…
What’s in your El Niño garden?
Oh, this is the season for leafy greens and root vegetables — and an El Niño year is no exception! They grow plenty of veggies in English gardens and (although we in So Cal may be unaccustomed to it) that’s the…
‘That lettuce’ Frisee
When it rains in L.A., ‘that lettuce’ comes up all over my yard. My sister is probably the one who named it, years ago, asking me whether I had any seedlings of ‘that lettuce’ to share. A mild-flavored green, pretty…
Fig ‘Black Jack’
Delicious black-skinned, ruby-throated fig, juicy with sweet flavor. Tree is a genetic dwarf, which means it is easily kept under 6-8 feet, and will never grow too big for your city garden. The Black Jack fig performs wonderfully here in…
Collards ‘L.A. Green Glaze’
Kale grabs the media spotlight, but did you know that collards are botanically the same plant? And they are heat-tolerant and crazy-easy to grow? When I started growing homegrown collards, it was like I had discovered a new vegetable. Homegrown…
Evening Primrose ‘Ballona Creek’
You can take part in helping to preserve a very local strain of this California wildflower. It has quite an amazing story: It was the year 2000, and I was driving along Lincoln Blvd near Jefferson and LMU when I…
Amaranth ‘Westchester Red’
Amaranth is the star of our late summer gardens. Its dramatic burgundy spires are eye-catching, and never fail to have passers-by asking “what is that!?” It doesn’t mind the peak intensity of SoCal summer heat, and looks great when all…