Marti Lindsey--The Garden Lady: Winter in the Garden--LA Up at La Petite

Marti Lindsey--The Garden Lady

Hello and welcome to Marti Lindsey--The Garden Lady!

I live on a small ranch in unincorporated Los Angeles County with my husband Larry, son Max, puppies Rudy & Valentino and kitties Dixie & Trixie. We have amazing views as far as the eye can see and plenty of room to roam and operate our tractor! I am a certified Master Gardener through University of California Cooperative Extension, Los Angeles County. In the Spring I work at the California State Poppy Reserve where I share my love of nature with visitors from around the world. I also have a passion for living a green lifestyle through RRR-G: reduce-reuse-recycle & growing our own food! I love to share this with kids through my business: Marti Lindsey--The Garden Lady!

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Sunday, April 5, 2015

Winter in the Garden--LA Up at La Petite

Welcome 2015

Winter in the garden may not be as exciting as Spring and Summer gardening, there is still a lot going on in our preschool garden at LA Up. In February we had brussel sprouts, broccoli, carrots and garlic growing in the recycled shelf in the preschool area.

Also in the preschool area, the elevated raised bed has lettuce, herbs and sugar snap peas going strong. The kids love to eat the snap peas right off the plant. You can see from the picture that we have nothing growing in the center of the box. That is mainly due to the shorter arm span of three and four year olds. They cannot reach to water, thus the bare spot!

In the LA Up yard, we have a bed of garlic. There are a few carrots in the foreground. The other boxes in this yard are growing lettuces, snap peas and the strawberry bed has over wintered well and might start producing again soon!

We harvested some broccoli. The kids were actually fighting over who got to eat the broccoli!!

They did their best to divide it up fairly. I prefer to let them work these things out amongst themselves!

In any garden, watering is key. I found that the best way to ensure adequate watering is to provide watering cans for the kids to use to water. They really do seem to enjoy the upkeep of their garden beds, even in the winter when the least glamourous things are growing!

Cheers~
Marti