G3 Green Gardens Group

As many of the California native chaparral plants catch a siesta during the hot summer months, the edibles at Lawndale Library Ocean Friendly Garden burst forth with luscious fruit and luxuriant foliage, demonstrating that a well-designed California native garden can be visually stimulating all year long.  This Ocean Friendly Garden was installed through a series [...]

Last year, this man (our neighbor, Sam Naghazei) was observed from our studio popping Sungold tomatoes from the vines growing on our driveway. While we don’t encourage people to walk on to the property after our fruits and vegetables, the front driveway has always been considered a sort of community garden, and we often see [...]

Summer is definitely here when the blushing Babcock peaches along the driveway begin to ripen. Earlier in the season, we forgot to prune off the tiniest of the fruit to encourage fewer larger, sweeter specimens. The result? Smaller, perfectly sweet, oozing, tender, white-fleshed, fuzzy-wrapped peachy poppers. Alas, we despair for harried urban edible gardeners — [...]

It is a brief moment. Don’t blink or the season is over. Don’t stare or the birds will discover the tree. Eat them immediately. They don’t keep. They are the ultimate local, fresh produce that seduces even the most jaded Von’s shopper. Mulberries (Morus nigra) have appeared on the tiny weeping tree in the driveway. [...]

A new report by the CA Dept. of Pesticide Regulation announced today that total pesticide use in California increased substantially in 2010 after posting a decline during the previous four years. Most of this pesticide use is in commercial agriculture. But, there is a psychological phenomenon that occurs when people see others doing a bad [...]