Alameda Point Community Garden

03/29/2020

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05/05/2018

Today Is World Naked Gardening Day.
Photo: "Venus Of Suburbia" by Rosaleen Ryan
World Naked Gardening Day (WNGD) is an annual international event celebrated on the first Saturday of May. According to NBC's Today News, WNGD "has become an annual tradition that celebrates weeding, planting flowers and trimming hedges in the buff. While it’s linked to a movement of nudists who promote wholesome and unashamed acceptance of the human body, the day is meant to be funny, lighthearted and non-political.

03/09/2018

Mark Wise a Bay Area gardener, is selling starter plants from various heirloom tomato and pepper seeds - he says his seeds have mainly been purchased from the Baker Creek Seed Bank in Petaluma, and some resulting from trades with other organic grdeners. He will be at Alameda Nob Hill Shopping Center this Saturday. March 10 at about 9 am selling his wares.

03/07/2018

Artwork: John William Waterhouse

02/27/2018

Discover our all-new 2018 introductions featuring innovative new vegetables, flowers, herbs, fruit, and gardening supplies.

02/25/2018

Due to their bright colors and visits to flowers, butterflies are the most familiar of insects to humans. There are about 20,000 species of butterflies in the world, and around 750 species in the United States. Many of these species are listed as threatened or endangered.

Butterflies are commonly associated with plants, and the relationship is sometimes complex. Immature butterflies (caterpillars), with few exceptions, eat plants, and therefore may be considered harmful to the plants. However, butterflies are very important to many plants that are dependent upon flower-visiting insects for cross-pollination. Most butterfly caterpillars eat one, or sometimes several, related species of plants. Usually the choice is made by the adult female when depositing eggs. Adults usually feed on nectar from flowers of plants, although many butterflies feed instead on rotting fruit, dung, etc., especially in the tropics.

If you want to attract butterflies to your yard and help increase their numbers, choose native plants.

Host Plants for Butterflies and Moths http://nativeplantherald.prairienursery.com/2016/03/host-plants-for-butterflies-and-moths/

Red List of Butterflies and Moths https://xerces.org/red-list-of-butterflies-and-moths/

Illustration by Roger Hall https://rogerdhall.deviantart.com/art/Butterflies-of-North-America-533662724

02/24/2018

The world faces an antibiotic crisis. Could sifting through soil bacteria help solve it?

10/18/2017

Fruit trees can flourish in pots as long as they are grown on a dwarfing rootstock. To select the proper

06/17/2017

For most living in the United States, washed, refrigerated eggs are the norm & are actually considered safer by most people. But eggs unchilled unwashed..

06/10/2017

05/20/2017

NOTES ON TIPS FOR GROWING EXCELLENT TOMATO PLANTS taken during our talk by the wonderful Brad Gates (of Wild Boar Farm) - cutting edge tomato breeder and grower .