Mud Baron

Photo by nicadlr via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr Plant F-ing is a new Ask LAist series about growing food and flora at home--especially for those renters who do not have access to the luxuries of a yard and only have windows and patios to work with. If you've got a question, please send it to editor[@]laist.com and our in-house garden guru, aka Hand of Gardener, will answer. Everybody seems to be...

Basil on a south facing window | Photo by Zach Behrens/LAist Plant F-ing is a new Ask LAist series about growing your food at home with an emphasis on renters who do not have access to the luxuries of a yard and only have windows and patios to work with. If you've got a question, please ask and send it to editor[@]laist.com and our in-house garden guru, aka Hand of Gardener, will answer. Today...

Even the tomatoes are smiling! Photo by the Hand of Gardener/LAist LAist's own Green Thumb is here to help you get into gardening...So, as he says: "Get down on your knees and start planting." Speaking with garden conspirators in the Bay Area this week I discovered it was “hot” this short, spring. Damn, winter is gone. Hello summer. It turns out that 72 degrees counts as hot in Berkeley. I guess Alice Waters can...

Los Angeles is cold. It's too cold for this Midwestern escapee's comfort even if it is Christmas. Humbug. Yes, God gave us Jesus and a really great climate in SoCal, so it's not supposed to freeze. We don't really freeze that much, but Jesus and a frost show up once or twice. It happens; my Yahoo Weather report says expect the low 30's. It says Buffalo. It says Dayton. Every year I tell myself to...