Ask Paula: Ask a master gardener any gardening question each week
GardenJot is all about everyday gardeners offering their neighbors useful and easy to follow tips about growing successfully in their specific microclimate. So much of gardening is specific to that narrow contour in the valley or the place point in the county where the wind always seems to die down. As more gardeners join and put their gardens on the map across the world, that community of neighborhood gardeners is being created to answer those geographic-specific questions. And for those universal questions, we’ve recruited an expert who we think can help answer the toughest ones.
Paula is a certified master gardener (a title awarded to her by the University of California), and is also a certified consulting rosarian (certified by the American Rose Society). She is active in volunteering for her master gardening club, her local dahlia society and her local rose society. She has too many trophies and honors to count, the latest being “Best in Show” for cut flowers at her local county fair (the winning flower was a rare midnight calla lily). Her garden has been featured in the Home and Garden publication Perennials, in the local press and on countless garden tours. She is also an acclaimed tomato grower (who organizes her county’s tomato sale each year) and she grows a variety of fruit and vegetables, including pomegranates, cinderella pumpkins, strawberries, broccoli, lettuce and herbs. She is in the process of trying to overturn her city’s “no chicken” ordinance so she can raise her own egg-laying hens. An early proponent of green living, she has used her kitchen scraps to make her own “black gold” compost for years and is the proud owner of her very own active worm farm.
All this keeps her pretty busy, but she would be happy to answer a question a week from GardenJot users. To submit your questions, either visit her garden profile and send her a message directly. Alternatively, you can leave them in the comments section of this post, send an email to askpaula at gardenjot dot com or hit us up on Twitter @gardenjot.