by angela@diggingbliss | Apr 18, 2008 | Uncategorized
Will more people– of all ages, not just Gen X/Yers nursery consultants are urging nursery owners to woo– start growing their own food? Gardening? Yup.How I learned to stop worrying and love the recessionThe market’s in a slump and America’s...
by angela@diggingbliss | Apr 16, 2008 | Uncategorized
Thought I’d pass this along… You are receiving this because you signed the online petition atsavethecowpalace.com...Dear Friend of the Cow Palace,Great news!The Senate Agricultural Committee today (4/15/08) voted to "approve" SB 1527with amendments that...
by angela@diggingbliss | Apr 12, 2008 | Uncategorized
During a much-needed plant-fondling trip to Berkeley Hort yesterday, I spied another gorgeous Osteospermum, ‘Nuanza Copper Purple’, in a planter. It’s very reminiscent of ‘Sunny Sheila’ in its jewel-toned color blend and iridescence, but...
by angela@diggingbliss | Apr 9, 2008 | Uncategorized
I’m still loving Osteospermum hybrid Sunny ‘Sheila’. The colors are amazing… much more intense and coppery in person than in photos and the way light plays with the petals is really...
by angela@diggingbliss | Mar 29, 2008 | Uncategorized
The secret to growing orchids? A sunny corner kitchen window. This magic orchid-growing window faces south and west. I water every few days with a quick squirt from the kitchen sprayer. For added humidity, the pots sit on pebble-filled drainage trays and I leave the...
by angela@diggingbliss | Mar 28, 2008 | Uncategorized
My first plum crop on my “Backyard Orchard Culture“… um… orchard. Tastings to follow, I hope. I planted three varieties 18 inches apart and each tree has lots of little plums. Fingers crossed! Edible violas in my window box...
by angela@diggingbliss | Mar 24, 2008 | Uncategorized
There’s suddenly plenty of spring garden blogging to catch up on, but for the next few weeks I’ll be giving first priority to my web design class. Yep, that’s right, I finally bit the bullet and signed up for a real class in Dreamweaver CS3....
by angela@diggingbliss | Mar 20, 2008 | Uncategorized
make olive oil! http://oliveoil.ucdavis.edu/ UCD celebrates another year of turning olive mess into moneymakerBy Jim Downing – jdowning@sacbee.comLast Updated 12:13 am PDT Thursday, March 20, 2008Story appeared in Sacramento Bee BUSINESS section, Page...
by angela@diggingbliss | Mar 19, 2008 | Uncategorized
Another great annual return to the San Francisco Flower & Garden Show! Came home with two new orchids… the very ones I wanted to buy last year but didn’t! Ah, orchid closure. Well, almost. There was a peachy, pinky cousin of these two that I had to...
by angela@diggingbliss | Mar 16, 2008 | Uncategorized
(photo from http://frontiers.ucdavis.edu) UC Davis Frontiers: Energy from table...
