L.A. Green Grounds

What a fantastic time!  Thank you again, Celeste, for hosting Green Ground’s first garden event. If you scroll 5 posts down to “Mark Your Calendars” you’ll see how her yard looked like before. Please feel free to add more pictures of today’s event.

I tinkered with some early Green Grounds logo design ideas. Which direction should we push our design toward? Feel free to post  all possible design ideas! All feedback welcomed! While having fun with photoshop I was thinking about networked communities, growth, non-hierarchical and decentralized systems. So what is Green Grounds all about? Please post anything [...]

To make our compost Craig and I salvage food scrap, lawn clippings, coffee grounds and tea bags, and leaf rakings. While you can buy compost bins for very cheap from the city of LA we assembled our compost out of pallets. I encourage all to bring a container to work and have your coworkers collect [...]

Recipe and photo by Ron: “From my garden: Sauté Purple Queen Beans+Garlic (from my friend Penny Marshall’s garden)+Olive oil+Red chiles,+ Basil, salt+red pepper flakes + Quinoa+grilled jalapenos  YUMMMM”

When you garden it is hard to explain the feeling of euphoria you get. The work you do in your own or someone else’s garden is so satisfying. To make your soil, sow your seeds, and take care of your plants though out the growing stage. The plant will show it’s appreciation by bearing its [...]

October 30th is when we’ll tackle Celeste’s backyard garden. Below are images of its current state. To her luck she has loose sandy soil and ample sun-accessible garden space. Until we come over Celeste has her homework cut out for her. She will be removing weeds, glass, and debris from decades ago. Celeste also has [...]

Truly inspiring! It was hard to choose which pictures to post from Ron’s garden. So many gorgeous plants, so many colors and textures! Also interesting planting combinations – strawberries next to peppers, next to tomatoes.

Perhaps we can tackle Ron’s parking strip after establishing Celeste’s edible garden? Why waste water on turf when you can have edible gardens that beautify the neighborhood, built community, and are edible? It’s time, Green Grounders, it’s high time! In the spirit of getting rid of lawn landscape designer The Germinatrix points out: “My personal issue [...]

After I visited Ron Finley’s garden I left impressed and inspired. I will make another post of his handsome plants but first I must focus on his amazing and bizarre  little garden pests, also known as Keelbacked Treehoppers. While they are clearly a nuisance, similar to aphids these guys like to suck the juice out [...]

This misty weather’s great for seed germination.  Today, beets, peas, radishes and a few forefront carrots are up. So also is a critter (probably small mammal), who’s dug up a few holes in the beds.  Suspect probably has a bushy tail and is looking for acorns or is trying to bury some. A peregrine falcon [...]