Linda Ly
Linda Ly runs the award-winning blog Garden Betty, which chronicles her adventures in the dirt and on the road. From her South Bay abode, she shares farm-to-fork recipes, raises backyard chickens, bakes bread and makes jam and still finds time to surf or snowboard or kayak or climb-depending on the season. (So many reasons to love SoCal!) She has been featured in Country Living, HGTV, and Los Angeles Times. Her first book, The CSA Cookbook, was released in March 2015 by Voyageur Press.
Manufactured by Bayer CropScience and Syngenta, neonics are routinely used at the nursery as well as at the growers' warehouse.
Even in the middle of drought, you can still be a responsible steward of the lawn.
Summer temperatures often cause leafy greens to bolt.
How will you ever tidy up before they arrive?
Commercial potting soil is technically not soil at all, but a sterile mix of filler ingredients and organic matter.
Nothing beats a homemade meal, health-wise or budget-wise. The trick to saving money and eating well starts before you ever learn how to cook -- it starts with learning how to shop wisely.
Inside the home, we're always fixated on closets, cabinets, and countertops.
You do have enough time in the day. It just comes in small doses.
Avoid the old wives' tales: these are the tried and true methods of keeping your bouquets happy.
When it comes to spring cleaning, probably the hardest task to tackle is purging the closet.
The items we touch the most tend to be cleaned the least.
Club soda isn't just something that goes well with vodka and a twist of lime.