farm with a view

Hope to be back in some way, shape or form. For now, San Francisco beckons.

I was born and raised in Los Angeles. Which means I’m pretty clueless when it comes to the weather. I know it gets chilly in the winter here – when it dips into the 40s and 50s, brr! – and we usually get rain in the spring. I know that June is gloomy and the dry Santa Ana winds usually blow through in late summer or early fall. Sometimes that causes fires.

As everybody knows, when you have an outdoor garden, you are at the mercy of the weather. So, I’ve been much more attentive this year. And boy, did we pick a no-good-very-bad year to start a vegetable garden. (more…)

Stopped by the HomeGrown Culver City gardening event yesterday morning, which was held at a park near my work. It was free to attend and promised a bunch of educational workshops and local vendors, so there really was no excuse not to at least take a lookie.

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Not much going on outdoors at the plot (not really all that excited at the prospect of harvesting yet more zukes). But indoors, the seedlings are stretching up and out quite nicely. Which is fine by us, considering it’s been gray and drizzly for the past week here in L.A.

(Little nugget-shaped Swiss chard seeds)

(Out popped pretty jewel-toned seedlings. Each seed can produce several plants, so will need to thin them out at some point.)

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Five days later, we’ve got kale sprouts!

A good few didn’t make it, but that was sort of expected.

And the spinach? (more…)