Here’s MG Julie Strnad with what’s coming to the Mar Vista Market this Sunday!
Join the LA County Master Gardeners on Sunday, October 6 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. in The Green Tent. They’ll be there as usual with free plants (they’ve grown for you!) and free seed packets.
This time they’re giving away:
Green beans — the last of the season before moving on to peas! Which like the colder weather, which we hope is coming soon!
Baby chard and baby kale, together in a single mini-pot.
Cilantro — love it or hate it, but it’s a wonderfully bright herb that brings Thai, Mexican and many other cultures’ culinary flavors vividly to life. You can keep the seeds to replant or grind them for your own personal coriander spice!
Succulents will always be a favorite in SoCal yards and containers, and they’re bringing a variety of them.
Microgreens are delicious, tiny and OH so prolific. Cut them like a haircut and watch them keep growing more, perfect on sandwiches or in salads.
Arugula, that spicy little green that the Brits call “rocket.” If you let them flower and eat the flowers, you’ll find a spicy, nutty flavored treat. Or let them go to seed and you can grow more of your own next year.
And lastly but not leastly, Swiss Chard, which tastes milder than spinach and is easier to grow. A very nutritional leafy green.
LOW COST 4-week gardening workshops are taking place across LA County now!
Don’t forget to bring those plastic six-packs to the Green Tent so the MGs can recycle them and grow more plants for you next month.
