Growing Parkway Kale is the latest offering from “Late Bloomer.” If you are short on space, you can utilize your parkway to grow hearty, nutritious kale. Kaye covered her brassicas with red voile (purchase at a fabric store) to keep cabbage moths from laying eggs on them. Cabbageworms can devastate your brassicas. Kaye builds community […]
The Palisadian-Post features Kaye in Spring Garden issue! Kaye offers “6 Steps to a Successful Food Garden” to encourage and inspire anyone to grow their own food. Kaye had a banner year with kale, so the timing was perfect for a photo for the Spring Home & Garden issue of the Palisadian-Post. This article covers how […]
Growing Savoy Cabbage 1 & 2 is the new double whammy from “Late Bloomer.” I was given seeds from an uber gardener friend and though they got off to a slow start, the results were spectacular! Please watch both parts! In Growing Savoy Cabbage 1, a huge cabbage bolts in the heat and I plan to save […]
Winter Garden Update 2014 is long overdue! It’s been since December 7th since we checked in. Get an update on Kaye’s front yard garden, watch the joy and excitement of two young girls visiting and harvesting vegetables, and don’t miss the bloopers! Editor Megan Oldfield does a great job with my blooper reel each episode. […]
Late Bloomer is TWO today! This is the second anniversary of my urban garden web show “Late Bloomer” and I want to thank everyone for your support! We are into our third season of episodes, and a lot has happened in these two years. I’m continuing my on-the-job education of learning to garden and grow […]
When you know you’re hooked on gardening is something I’ve been wondering a lot about in my third year of this glorious endeavor. Am I hooked? Could I walk away from it? Quit it cold turkey? Am I addicted? Yesterday, I got my answer. An actor had brought a bag of grapefruit and tangerines from his trees […]
Growing Sweet Peas was my main preoccupation with my third winter garden. I grew four varieties last year and had such good luck, I tripled the number of vines and doubled the number of varieties. In other words, I went for broke! All through December, I had gorgeous white and magenta blossoms. Beginning of January, […]
After the rain, the Late Bloomer Garden comes alive! You may have heard about the drought in California. Well, we got a proper hosing the past few days. It coincided with cool season crops mature and lush. My new rainwater barrel is full along with several overflow trash cans, and the soil got a deep […]
Winter Harvest is Beginning! Cool season crops are maturing in Southern California. It’s time to finally see the fruits of my labor, started back in October. It sounds like I’m bragging, but, as much for my own edification, I wanted to list all that I have growing in my tiny front yard garden. Most of […]
Finding solutions for pests is the life-long quest of an organic gardener or farmer. Late Bloomer Lesson (LBL): Be Persistent! Just because you found a solution, does not mean you found the solution. Late yesterday afternoon, I planted a variety of organic seed potatoes in the repurposed wood bins, as I had done last spring. I finished just before […]
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