Fresh advice for the frosty month ahead, courtesy of our resident Gardening Tips columnist, Master Gardener Yvonne Savio: “The sun’s light and warmth slip to the year’s low ebb this month. During warm spells, however, some seeds will germinate, so sowing under protected conditions is worth the effort. These seedlings can fill gaps...
Community Pancake Breakfast
Community Pancake Breakfast – Sandy Chang The sound of muffled commotion came through all too loudly at five in the morning. Fonda bolted out of the house with the door slamming noisily behind him, marking the first sound of the day, before even the rooster next door had a chance to crow. Waiting for...
The Garden
The Garden – D. Titchenell ...
The Altadena Farmer’s Market – a memory
The Altadena Farmer’s Market – a memory – Sandy Chang, plot 54 The ninety plus degree San Gabriel Valley summers make outdoor activities rather impossible. People and pets hide in air conditioned rooms or languish the day away in sweaty naps, glorious sunshine admired rather than enjoyed. Humans and creatures alike stir restlessly from...
What Can I Do? I’m just one person.
What Can I Do? I’m just one person. – Sharon Sand, Associate, plot 36, California Public Grants Program Manager at The Trust for Public Land I’m just one person. I compost my food scraps and yard waste, I don’t eat beef, I have solar panels covering our electricity, and I drive a hybrid. Could...
Master Gardener Class Musings
Master Gardener Class Musings – Sandy Chang Silvera must have glimpsed evidence of lacking in our plot – be it the overrun nutgrass, the larvae infested cruciferous greens so chewed through that they resembled ragged dishtowels or the deformed ears of corn with missing kernels reminiscent of old men’s missing teeth. So he sent...
ACG Little Free Library Autumn 2021
Our LFL A column centering on the Altadena Community Garden’s Little Free Library Autumnal literature, though vastly varied, does tend sometimes toward the wistful departure, often a passing, and sometimes, with the return of Halloween, a bit of spooky foreboding. A few poems come to mind, one such being the one depicting the cursed...
Hose Repair
Desultory Droppings from October 2021 ACG Newsletter Compost for the cranium Hose Repair – experience, insights and an easy, quick and cheap solution One way to fix a garden hose leak is to cut the hose, clean up the ends and splice them together with a store-bought “hose mender” fitting which includes a rigid...
The Little Free Library Book Malediction
Books are kept or returned and for some that's okay But to an LFL, this one would come back one day. It's been proven that those who stow this kind of books Make embarrassing burps that evoke dirty looks. Some are subject to irksome calamities too And suffer from spillage of ink and of...
A Bookcase on a Post
To be read on a train or aloud by a brook...