How does your garden grow? Now that the weather in California's started to warm, all of the vegetables in mine have finally started to grow! Nothing's quite large enough to pick yet, except for a few nasturtium plants, which are growing like weeds. When life gives you nasturtium leaves, make nasturtium pesto! I used the traditional ingredients in a basil pesto, but substituted the basil with a Read more

When April showers aren't prepping May flowers, we can be found in the backyard flexing our green thumbs. Since we're no professionals in the world of gardening, digital resources are a must in learning which plants will thrive in a specific climate and how to produce vegetables worthy of a farmers market. Download one of these five apps this weekend to get your Spring gardening in gear. Read more

Are you a first-time gardener, or do you have some gardening experience under your belt that you'd like to share? Show off your skills and garden photos — like these yummy lettuce phtoos from community member Casa-Giardino — or simply pose questions about gardening by joining the Girls' Guide to Gardening. Join the group by clicking here! Read more

Here's a post from CasaSugar Community member designingmainstreet from the Girls' Guide to Gardening group: After seeing this succulent wedding centerpiece on CasaSugar I had to try to recreate this look at home. The original plants were intended for a wedding setting, but I thought I could make them work on our dining room table. A few vases clustered together seemed like a low maintenance Read more

Here's a post from CasaSugar Community member designingmainstreet from The Girls' Guide to Gardening group: Earlier this Spring, my husband and I went to the local garden center with a detailed list on what we were going to plant in our planters. We quickly learned that not all of these plants were available at our local garden center and the ones that were cost $5 a piece. That doesn't Read more

Here's a post from CasaSugar Community member designingmainstreet from the group The Girls' Guide to Gardening: I was out in the garden yesterday evening picking lettuce for dinner and making a dramatic scene by walking along the edges of our raised garden bed in my flip-flops. I said to Howard, “Next year we should add a walkway down the middle of the garden so it’s easier to pick Read more

How's your garden growing? Not sure where to get started? Need to share some questions or want to offer advice? Whether you're a gardening pro or just started thinking about planting your first veggie patch, our community group The Girls' Guide to Gardening is the place for you. Use the group as a place to post photos of gardening successes, as well as to pose questions to the community about Read more