Hands in the Dirt
Stories from a Kitchen Garden Coach and her messy garden.
How to Know When to Harvest — Reading Your Garden Before the Day Gets Warm
The hardest part of a first harvest isn't the growing — it's knowing when to pick. Here's how to read your garden for peak ripeness, crop by crop, in a Sierra Foothills summer.
Why Your Tomatoes Are Dropping Their Flowers — And What to Do About It
Blossom drop is one of the most common and most misunderstood problems in a Sierra Foothills summer garden. Here's why it happens, what the heat has to do with it, and what you can — and can't — do when your tomatoes start shedding flowers instead of setting fruit.
The Book That Changed How I Think About a Small Garden Space
Paradise Lot by Eric Toensmeier is the story of growing an extraordinary amount of food on a tenth of an acre in urban Massachusetts — and the book I recommend most to women who look at their Nevada County backyard and wonder what's actually possible there.