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LA Garden
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Musings of a Los Angeles garden writer, gardener, director of a non-profit, member of Seed Savers Exchange, American Community Gardening Association, Garden Writers of America, bass, mandolin, guitar, keyboard player and songwriter/vocalist, left-wing leaning, American Civil War buff who is learning to live an ordinary life in an extraordinary way. Corn from my garden, 2009
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Seed Saving 101: Spring 2012

The Learning Garden in conjunction with the Seed Library of Los Angeles offer Seed Saving 101 Learning Gardenmaster and SLOLA Chair, David King will teach this introduction to saving seeds from your ...

25 mar 12

INTERMEDIATE VICTORY GARDENING!

Offered by The Learning Garden under the auspices of the University of California Extension: Four classes to really give you the dirt on gardening! Expand your skill level and appreciate the world of...

24 mar 12

Garden Master & Author David King At Santa Monica College on March 27

CONTACT: Bruce Smith FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Public Information Officer DATE: March 12, 2012 ...

12 mar 12

The Southern California Garden in March

March. Baseball teams are in Spring Training in Florida and Arizona. Tomatoes are growing in a protected location with bottom heat so they can be set out in the garden close to the end of April. Weve...

06 mar 12

The Garden In February

Summers harvest from last year include these gorgeous peppers (what did I plant last year?) and San Marzano tomatoes. Both were prolific and delicious. When summer is over, I dont want to touch anoth...

14 feb 12

Januarys Garden

Rain on a broccoli, the photographer and his camera. We are grateful for the rain - even this so-called negligible precipitation. A drought is predicted, but since when have they been right? One of t...

07 jan 12

Real Men Don’t Cry in Their Quiche

(NB This is an essay from a few years ago I have dug out and rewritten. I guess, having finished the first major rewrite of my first book has left me with a yen to do more re-writing. I stumbled up...

08 oct 11

The Food Movement: Its Power and Possibilities

"The number of hungry people has soared to nearly 1 billion, despite strong global harvests. And for even more people, sustenance has become a health hazard—with the US diet implicated in four o...

29 sep 11

The Garden In September

Lettuce is one of our winter crops in Los Angeles – this red lettuce, Merville des Quatres Saissons (Marvel of the Four Seasons) is more like Marvel of the Two Seasons here – our summers are way too ...

04 sep 11

Growing Food In Southern California: What to Do & When To Do It

David King Teaches Gardening To Everyone! This Saturday, September 3rd, The Learning Garden presents: Growing food In Southern California with David King. This 9 to 12 workshop centers on what to do...

02 sep 11

The Garden In August

A pair of hands sifts through the harvest of Cannellini beans; 12 feet of row netted just shy of 10 pounds. I am thinking a family of four would use about 50 pounds in a year. But this is just one of...

24 aug 11

The Gaden in July...

...and the corn is as high as an elephants eye? Maybe not that high, but still stands tall in the garden promises good eating right around the corner. As a boy in Kansas, I knew my grandfathers goal...

03 jul 11

Goodbye My Amazon, Goodbye!

Dear Amazon, I think you goofed badly. I dont know of any business model that suggests you terminate your very large sales force that worked hard for you for practically nothing and give them over to...

03 jul 11

Starting Seed School

Starting Seed School Belle Star (the cute one on the left) and Bill McDorman, lead instructor, take our class through some thought provoking exercises for the evening. Late this afternoon, 20 some st...

20 jun 11

Grow More Farmers!

In considering the recent spate of exploding watermelons in China, I realized that one of the challenges of the future, especially in first world countries, is the lack of farmers who understand the ...

23 may 11

Creative Container Gardening Nourishes Ourselves And Our Earth

(This is a reprint of an article that first appeared in LA Yoga magazine, June, 2009. It is still applicable.) NOTHING COMPARES WITH THE TASTE of freshly picked, vine-ripened, home-grown tomatoes. S...

11 apr 11 1 person likes this

The Garden in April

The summer gardens plants are in their little starter pots right now (vaguely reminiscent of training wheels on a bicycle) really begging to be transplanted into the earth. Tomatoes, peppers and cucu...

04 apr 11

Seed Library of Los Angeles (SLOLA)

The Seed Library of Los Angeles meeting of a few months ago, David King presides. The Seed Library of Los Angeles has monthly meetings. The membership has control over how we spend our money and ma...

31 mar 11

Victory Gardening Series At The Learning Garden

Thank you for your interest in the Victory Garden Classes at The Learning Garden. Below you will find the answers to most your questions. Please feel free to email me with questions if I failed to co...

31 mar 11

The March Garden

March. Baseball teams are in Spring Training in Florida and Arizona. Tomatoes are growing in a protected location with bottom heat so they can be set out in the garden close to the end of April. Weve...

09 mar 11

The Garden In February,

Summers harvest from last year include these gorgeous peppers (what did I plant last year?) and San Marzano tomatoes. Both were prolific and delicious. When summer is over, I dont want to touch anoth...

05 feb 11

Blog Anniversary

Who knew? This blog is now three years old having started the 29th of January 2008. To celebrate, Im posting the bibliography and other things from the Essentials of Vegetable Seed Saving lecture a...

29 jan 11

Rhubarb Pie for the Masses

David Kings Most Delicious Rhubarb Pie The shot of the rhubarb pie shows a green filling rather than the accepted red of rhubarb. The green rhubarb comes from our typical lack of frost. Rhubarb, in...

15 dec 10

Felco Pruners Are HERE!

The initial stock of Felco pruners and Swiss Army Knives are in stock now! I have F-6s, 8s and 11s as well as the new composite handle pruners, 160S (for small hands) and 160L (for large hands - tha...

14 dec 10

Urban Agriculture Wishes

A Venice High School student is proud of the cauliflower she grew in her garden class. Educating the coming generations about where food really comes from and showing them how to grow good, healthy ...

23 nov 10

Month By Month Planting Guide for Southern California: A Cheat Sheet

These generalizations are for The Learning Garden, located in Sunset Zone 24, less than 3 miles from the Pacific Ocean in an alluvial plain that is just above sea level. Cold air from the surrounding...

14 nov 10

I HAD Never Been Stung Before...

Original Photo of the Hive, About 500 Bees When the call came Wednesday evening, I glanced at my watch. 5:30. That would give me enough time, I thought and Id still make my 7:30 PM meeting. One o...

16 oct 10

The Garden In October

Seedlings in terra cotta pots getting ready to be transplanted into slightly larger containers. On the left, broccoli and cabbages have two seed leaves while the two pots on the right must be onions ...

30 sep 10

Pesto Madness Pesto: The Recipe

Basil in the field, lush and fulsome, just before picking time. As promised, this is the recipe we use to make our almost world-famous pesto. Remember, fresh and quality ingredients are the key! ...

20 sep 10

Basil Season Is Almost Over - Its Time For Pesto

Its time for the basil harvest, which, in my book, means its time for pesto! Time to rummage around and find those taste buds and shine em up! Here comes pesto! I know this doesnt seem like it, bu...

15 sep 10

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