The Coastal Gardener

Lemons taste like summer. I have great memories of picking lemons from my grandmother's tree in Oakland, cutting them in half, sprinkling them with sugar and sucking the juice out.

Online Gardening Classes by UC Master Gardeners Do you want to know about planning and planting a cool season vegetable garden? Are you interested in learning how to be successful with houseplants? A University of California Cooperative Extension Master Gardener can help you with that.

"Something is devouring my rose bush! It looks like a tiny caterpillar. I have tried picking them off, but they are so tiny it is hard to see them. I have sprayed it with BT but that doesn't seem to be helping. Once it was a beautiful rose bush, now the leaves look like Swiss cheese.

How my training as a UC Master Gardener and Master Food Preserver helped me become healthy after a heart attack. About three quarters of the way into my certification training for UCCE Master Food Preserver, I experienced a heart attack which resulted in stent placements.

THE VEGETABLE GARDENER'S GUIDE TO PERMACULTURE by Christopher Shein This is very much a how-to approach to permaculture practices and principles. It is a great companion to GAIA'S GARDEN with specific and concise information about methods, plants, processes.