Multi-Disciplinary Designer based in California

Multi-Disciplinary Designer based in California

Little Seaside Farm

Little Seaside Farm

Stories from my Kitchen garden. Follow along @littleseasidefarm on Instagram

Picking dinner with my little garden gnome 🍄

I had to hustle to take this photo because Heidi girl will happily eat a whole platter full of bush beans. What she doesn’t eat - she loves to feed to Harriet who is just as enthusiastic about them

Ethereal 🌸✨

So glad I documented these gorgeous blooms before the summer heat set in. We are now in the 80’s most days and the sun is so so intense mid-day.

This bed, filled mostly with spring annuals, will need to be refreshed within the ne

Year 3 of growing giant pumpkins 🎃

2019 - (in my L.A. garden) my Big Max pumpkin ended up at a little under 30 lbs (didn’t own a scale at the time) - photo/video 3&4

2020 - Was a bust. My Big Dill pumpkin had very few flowers, of which

Summer 2021 garden view from above #trimesterthree

Savoring these next couple months of quiet (relative, with a 3 year old🌪…) before this latest little sleep crasher makes his debut.

In the basket: lemon cucumbers, pickling cucumbers (that

Summer ✨

… means dinnerplate dahlias and platters of fresh veggies from the garden. At least it does for me this summer ☺️ It’s my first year growing dinner plate dahlias and I’m completely addicted. There is a saying that if you

The garden got a summer haircut yesterday morning - early before the intense summer sun was up. Starting my second crop of tomatoes and cucumbers 🥒 🍅

Will be sharing some of my tips on how to do this effectively and also a review on what worked/d

Dinnerplate Dahlias - in the vase there is Otto’s Thrill 💖, Snow Country 🤍 , Kelvin Floodlight 💛, Penhill Dark Monarch 💜

To get the largest of blooms, I clipped all buds except 1 on each flower stem. There are usually 3 per stem and by pi

The view from my kitchen - everyday the same, but also different. The plants evolve growing taller, flowering, fruiting, and then, eventually, dying off.

I’ve been enjoying this view a lot lately, but have had to leave my garden chores on the

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Loving these long summer evenings in the garden 🌞

In this front flower bed I’ve removed most of the Larkspur, but the Foxgloves (pink) and Delphiniums (blue) are still repeat blooming. The flowers aren’t quite as tall or spectacular as

First official summer harvest ☀️

Tomatoes, corn, cucumbers, lemon cucumbers, carrots, and dinner plate dahlias in the basket this time.

This week I’m already planning which beds to be re-planted within the next few weeks (about 5 of my 13).

Happy first day of Summer ☀️ and Fathers Day &hearts;️

This bed of dahlias is by far the most colorful bed in the garden right now 🌸💥 Happy that I decided to plant another bed full of them. They grow easily in my climate #zone10b and are very low

Pickle recipes? If you have one you love - please share! 🥒

Right now I’m averaging ~2lbs (or more) of pickling cucumbers per day. I have 8 vines this year (not including the 4 lemon cucumber vines which are not as productive).

They are a f

A sunny harvest from a spectacular weekend ☀️

#vegetablegarden #raisedgardenbeds #potager #allotment #kitchengarden #backyardfarm #growfoodnotgrass

Spent yesterday catching up on much needed end of spring garden chores…

- Cut down the sunflowers 🌻(the squirrels ate most of them 😢)
- Removed/harvested the bush beans
- Harvested cucumbers, zucchini, and the flowers here (Dahlias, Bells

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