HG Quick Tip: Keep your precious soil microbes alive and well with a hose filter.
0June 28, 2019 by Hope Gardens

One of the easiest ways to keep your soil healthy is to invest in a hose filter. A hose filter …
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Category Landscaping, Vegetable gardening | Tags: Garden, microbes, organic, Vegetable Garden
Support your veggies!
0June 22, 2019 by Hope Gardens

Summer is all about plant supports. You may know about beans and tomatoes needing posts and cages, but did you …
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Category Vegetable gardening | Tags: Garden, garden bed, gardening, organic, organic garden, organic gardening, raised bed, raised bed garden, raised bed gardening, raised beds, raised garden bed, Square foot gardening, summer, Summer squash, supports, vegetable beds, Vegetable Garden, vegetable gardening, verticalgarden, verticalgardening
TOMATO GROWING TIPS
0May 12, 2019 by Hope Gardens

There’s LOTS of ways to grow your tomatoes but in our suburban/urban gardening experience this is what works and can …
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Category DIY Garden Guides, Vegetable gardening | Tags: containergardening, Garden, gardening, Harvest, heirloom, Heirloom tomato, homegrown, organic, permaculture, raised bed, raised bed garden, raised bed gardening, raised beds, raised garden bed, Tomato, urban farm, Vegetable, vegetable beds, Vegetable Garden, vegetable gardening, veggie
How to Blanch Greens (the easy way), starring those superstars of nutrition: broccoli leaves
0April 3, 2019 by Hope Gardens

Sure, the traditional green broccoli head floret is very attractive and to grow one feels like such an accomplishment. But …
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Category Recipes, Vegetable gardening | Tags: blanch, blanching, broccoli, Garden, GREENS, Harvest, recipe, vegetable beds, Vegetable Garden, vegetable gardening
Hope Gardens Ten Year Anniversary!
0April 2, 2019 by Hope Gardens

My little company was founded in April 2009! Ten years has FLOWN by. We are celebrating in lots of ways …
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Save the Monarchs…in your own backyard. A guide to attracting and raising butterflies.
2January 15, 2019 by Hope Gardens

Last year my husband and I started making a concerted effort to protect Monarch butterflies in our backyard. We would …
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Category DIY Garden Guides, Landscaping | Tags:
Romaine Recall Redonkulous
0November 21, 2018 by Hope Gardens

I feel compelled to address the issue of the CDC recalling all forms of romaine lettuce. This action brings up …
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Category Vegetable gardening | Tags:
Before & After Landscaping Photos: Jason & Sarah
0August 1, 2017 by Hope Gardens

My lovely friends Jason and Sarah, LA’s best pet trainers at Connected Canine, were such an inspiration. Check out their …
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Before & After Landscaping Photos: Elizabeth & Jason
0July 28, 2017 by Hope Gardens

Elizabeth and Jason had a big corner lot with a slope and their modern, minimalist take on landscaping was the …
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Category Landscaping | Tags: california, companion planting, drought-tolerant, flower, Garden, Home, Home garden, landscaping, Los Angeles, native garden, Plant, raised bed, raised bed garden, Southern California
Spring In!
0June 29, 2017 by Hope Gardens

Here is Hope Gardens Spring/Summer Organic Vegetable Planting Guide. All the how-to’s and how-not-to’s. Spring In: Guide to Installing Your …
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Category DIY Garden Guides, Vegetable gardening | Tags: Agriculture, companion planting, Compost, drought-tolerant, edible garden, edible gardening, flower, Garden, Harvest, Home, Home garden, Los Angeles, nature, organic, Plant, raised bed, raised bed garden, raised bed gardening, raised garden bed, Soil, Southern California, spring, Square foot gardening, Tomato, Vegetable Garden, vegetable gardening