Category: Gardening How To

Who’s Attacking My Garden? What, pray tell, is eating your plants? Are your precious crops disappearing without a trace? Are there mounds and tunnels throughout the garden? Are there piles of beautifully granulated soil that […]

Grow Your Own: Asian Greens It’s time to get planting in the garden (unless your soil is still a bog like mine), and I highly recommend including tasty, nutritious Asian greens into your gardening plan […]

Here on the Grab N’ Grow blog we want to help you avoid making the same gardening mistakes we have. Some would say the only real way to learn life’s lessons is to go down […]

Most gardeners know that to grow strong, healthy crops in abundance you must first build robust soil. The act of cultivating crops in the ground can be quite disruptive to soil ecosystems. Nutrients that would […]

How to Start Seeds This Spring Spring has about sprung, and it’s that time of year to start seeds in the greenhouse (or windowsill!). In fact for some crops, we’re already deep into seed sowing season. […]

Soil chemistry is often one of those things you don’t think too deeply about until you encounter a problem that you can’t solve and are forced to do some in-depth research. Why do your crops […]

Happy New Year everyone! Last time on the blog I let you in on some of my early winter work as a farmer. This week we’re continuing in that vein with the next steps of […]

Here we are in that familiar time of year where it’s suddenly frigid at night, the wind is whipping the leaves off trees, and the days are shockingly short – every day. As we move […]

It’s important to think about how we can conserve water in our life, especially in California. We spent all summer talking about how to conserve water in the garden by making sure your soil is […]

Winter Gardening Tips Well, it happened. Summer actually ended, and we’re steadily on our way toward winter. This week at Petaluma Bounty we’re harvesting the last few of the tomatoes – a process that takes […]