by Steven Andrews | Jun 23, 2012 | Home Gardening
Summer is here! Give yourself, your landscape, and your community a boost by installing raised beds and containers that are filled with delectable edibles that will have you eating healthfully right into the fall. This year I installed 4 raised beds in my front yard...
by Annie Spiegelman | May 16, 2012 | Home Gardening
Though worldwide bee health has been on the decline since the 1990s, it wasn’t until the fall of 2006 that beekeepers nationwide began noticing millions of bees vanishing from their hives. This syndrome, named Colony Collapse Disorder, or CCD, is characterized...
by Steven Andrews | May 16, 2012 | Home Gardening, Professional Landscaping
If you’ve participated in a Bay Friendly Landscape Certification program in recent years, you’ve undoubtedly heard my mantra: Mulch! Mulch! Mulch! And, you’ve heard it for good reasons. Numerous scientific studies have reported on the benefits of using mulch in the...
by Steven Andrews | Apr 12, 2012 | Events, Home Gardening, Professional Landscaping
Celebrate Earth Day on Saturday April 28 at Davis Street Material Resource Recovery Complex. Discover how we recover feedstock for our compost and mulch. Take home a bag of CDFA-labeled, OMRI-listed & USCC-STA Homegrown Compost.
by Steven Andrews | Apr 12, 2012 | Home Gardening, Professional Landscaping
Plastics may have been the buzzword when Dustin Hoffman starred in The Graduate, but let’s face it: they represent a major waste management problem today. Among the things loathed most by landscape professionals and home gardeners alike are plastics. Plastics are...
by Steven Andrews | Mar 14, 2012 | Events, Home Gardening
This month the San Francisco Flower and Garden Show welcomes spring with its world-class garden festival. Now entering its 27th year, with a greener approach that is celebrating “Gardens for a Green Earth”, the show starts Wednesday March 21st through Sunday March...
