The Oxnard Native Plant Fest was a great event with the Theodore Payne Foundation, Growing Works, Birdwatching, Lenny Kaufer’s Herb talk, the Wishtoyo Chumash Foundantion, and had lots of booths of local art, crafts, plant shops, and garden accessories. At the Oxnard Native Plant Fest, we visited the Santa Monica Mountain Fund booth. Rancho Sierra…
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California Native Plants and Pacific Coast Irises
The room was charged with happy gardeners at our Organic Garden Club meeting with Bob Sussman, owner of Matilija Nursery in Moorpark. He has been growing California native plants and Pacific Coast Irises at his nursery for years. Native plants have adapted to their environment and can tolerate drought, poor soil, and floods, and therefore…
Terri Burgess, the California Native Plant Society, Channel Islands
At our January meeting, Terri Burgess, Chapter Membership and Outreach Coordinator of our local California Native Plant Society, told us of the importance of protecting native plants from extinction and their role in our local ecosystem of plants, insects, and animals. California has unique native plants and some rare native plants live only on the…
Lori Cameron’s Organic Bug Spray
Organic gardeners can spray this easy-to-make bug spray on any edible or non edible garden plants that show evidence of bug damage and not harm the environment. Chemical sprays and pesticides kill bees, butterflies, and other pollinators needed to produce crops. These toxic long lasting chemicals have harmed our environment, contaminated our rivers and drinking…
Growing Marjoram in a Pot
Marjoram is a versatile perennial herb with small gray-green velvety leaves that makes an attractive potted plant that may be brought inside when the temperatures fall. Like it’s cousin, oregano, it likes part shade and rich organic potting soil. Sow seeds indoors in the winter and transplant outdoors in the spring. Propagate marjoram by taking…
Pest Free Organic Gardening
A natural vegetable garden ecosystem lets Nature take its course by attracting beneficial bugs to eat up the pests that devour the veggies. As no poison is safe, gardeners can deter pests and critters using organic gardening techniques, growing their food in organic raised bed gardens in a complex biological community creating conditions that make…
Organic Garden Club of Ventura County 