Anawalt Gardening & Tool Tips
It’s easy for home gardeners to cultivate a lush lawn and garden without resorting to the chemical fertilizers and pesticides that threaten our waters, wildlife, families, and pets.
Common sense, good garden practices, natural fertilizers, and alternative pesticides are the foundation of organic gardening.
Perfect for people with limited gardening space, container gardening is a wonderful way to beautify your surroundings and improve an urban, porch, or patio environment. Since most containers are portable, you’ll be able to move your plants around and give your living area an instant color accent. For instance, a container filled with flowering annuals […]
As I yank out my last beets every spring, my tomato anxiety begins. In February, when I start a few seeds indoors on a heat mat, I feel I have all the time in the world. When I purchased a few unusual varieties in four-inch pots in March, I wondered if I was jumping the […]
With spring just days away, it’s time to start preparing your garden plan for peak planting season. Last year I had great success growing Serrano and Jalapeño Chiles and this year I’ve decided to broaden my repertoire. I’m mad about making salsas and hot sauce.
Allison Starcher is back with more great gardening tips. This time, it’s a great guide for planting bare root roses. Whether you’re planting in the ground, your garden, or pot on your balcony or patio, Allison shows you the best way to plant your roses in our video.
Any and everyone is capable of practicing vermicomposting (worm composting). Even those limited on space, living in a small apartment. Whether you’re creating soil for an entire farm or your house plants and windowsill herb garden, the benefits are endless. I’m going to teach you the basics of vermiculture and walk you through everything you need to know!
A good pair of pruners is beloved by gardeners, treasured like a chef’s favorite knife. Sharp enough to do harm but, in skilled hands, a precise tool. Sometimes referred to by their French name, secateurs, pruners have a spring that holds the handles open so they can be used with one hand.
Gardening, even in temperate Southern California is guided by the calendar. Each seasonal phase brings the promise of new beginnings and the letting go of past glories.
The transition from 2020 to 2021 feels like a jail sentence drawing to an end, a culmination, a new chapter. So lets take a deep breath of crisp winter air and look forward.
If the October beverage menu at Starbucks tells us anything, it’s that people LOVE the fall. I have no shame in admitting I am very much one of those people. Give me all the pumpkin spice beverages and fall scented candles.
In addition to my seasonal beverage lineup and candles, I also love to decorate my home for the fall
Citrus hues are a great way to add a pop of color. These are bright and punchy colors that will add life to anything in your home.
For a bold and playful statement, we suggest using any of these colors on a front door, a refinished piece of furniture, or an Adirondack chair.
