Two Dog Organic Nursery

06/08/2024

Never underestimate the power of Joy. ❤🙏❤🇺🇸Harris-Walz... Let's go!

02/08/2024

❤ The state of our kitchen counter most of the summer! 🙏❤ The second photo is the gorgeous "Beauty King", and the third is a group of beautiful "Alice's Dream" . This is the first time I've grown either; they'll both definitely be back on the 2025 lineup!!

18/07/2024

Putting my focus on gratitude. ❤🙏 Our Plums and Tomatoes are taking off! The second round of Corn and Beans are planted out, as are the Butternut & Delicata Squash. Eggplants and Peppers are nearing harvest. Next round of Beets will go in on Friday, as we just ate the last of the picked beets from the last crop. Sweet Potatoes are growing like mad, and their pretty green leaves add to the breakfast smoothies. Herbs are at their best, and I use them nearly every day. We just picked more than 300 incredibly juicy Lemons from our lovely old Meyer Lemon tree and have been freezing their juice into ice cubes of different sizes. Rhubarb and Strawberries are still going strong, and I hope to have enough for one more pie! Funny, I always hope our summer houseguests are here for the peak of something!! 🙏😅😋😋

02/07/2024

I DISSENT

24/05/2024

Doesn't take a lot to make me happy. I love my garden ❤😋🙏

21/04/2024

Happy Earth Day friends! It's a couple days early, but I'm celebrating that this afternoon I FINALLY finished planting out the Spring Garden!! (after a million rainy weekends in a row!) Many thanks to Oscar, who worked with us in the Nursery during the pandemic years and now comes back to help me change the seasons. There's no way I could do it without him! The abundance of rain meant we had a major Nasturtium-filled "meadow" growing out there, and we practically needed a machete to even get to the containers.😜 Here's the count (everything in EarthBoxes, of course): Sweet Peppers, Persian Cucumbers, Pole Beans, Bush Beans, Eggplants, Herbs, Corn (3 EarthBoxes) and Heirloom Tomatoes (13 EarthBoxes). We still have Kale, Chard, Spinach & Strawberries in EarthBoxes producing well, and the Garlic is sizing up nicely! The 3 huge Blueberry bushes are LOADED with fruit, and we've already had one yummy Strawberry-Rhubarb Pie this year with more Rhubarb to come. The perennial Garden Sorrel is doing great in the Smart Pot, as are our 4 groupings of Sweet Peas (the most lovely fragrance in the world). "Evelyn Marie", our Weeping Santa Rosa Plum tree is flowering like mad, and our sweet, senior Meyer Lemon has already produced maybe a thousand of her famously juicy lemons. To everything there is a season ... it never stops in this amazing 12-month gardening season that is Southern California. As the Chard and Spinach go to seed, the next round of Corn and Pole Beans will be poised to occupy those EarthBoxes; and I'll harvest the Garlic just in time to plant out the Sweet Potatoes in those same Smart Pots. It's sort of like clock-work (except when we have a million rainy weekends in a row😅) and I love it. Happy Gardening everyone, and Happy Earth Day!❤🙏

07/04/2024

Good Sunday Morning, Friends! Quick reminder: we'll be OPEN today from 9am until 4pm. We still have 116 Heirloom Tomato Plants for sale. Plus Cookies!😅😂 It's finally going to be a lovely warm week; let's get that Spring garden in!! ❤🙏☺️

05/04/2024

I FORGOT TO POST! 🙃😉 We will be selling TOMATO PLANTS again all weekend!! There are 190 left! This crazy weather sure is dragging it out... but that's OK. I always say, "Mother Nature gets the last laugh". 😅🍅🍅🍅 So come on by (please bring your own box or flat) We'll be OPEN from 9am til 4pm, both Saturday & Sunday (projected to be 64 degrees and Sunny!) YES, we'll have Cookies & Lemonade! See you here 🙏🙏🥳

25/03/2024

FRIENDS... we're selling Tomatoes ONE MORE DAY 🥳🥳🤣🙏 The weekend was fantastic, and we thank everyone who came out IN THE RAIN!! We still have 225 plants left, so if you'd like to come by tomorrow, please do. We're expecting houseguests this week, so I'll be inside cooking and getting the guest room ready, but please feel free to come over, and TEXT ME WHEN YOU ARRIVE 323-422-3835, and I'll come right out!! Thanks! 🤩❤🍅🍅🙏

23/03/2024

IT'S TOMATO TIME, FRIENDS!! 10-4 tomorrow and Sunday. Hope to see you here!! ❤🙏🥳🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅

07/03/2024

A friend asked yesterday if I had any Tomato variety recommendations for salads, sauce, etc. I told her a couple of my long-time faves are St. Teresa, Aunt Ruby's German Green, Kellogg's Breakfast and Pink Berkeley Tie Dye, and of course, for sauce, Amos Coli & San Marzano Redorta are always best-sellers. I also directed her to my "Tomatoes by Season" page where she could make selections that would insure a long, long season. Check it out: https://twodognursery.com/tomatoes.html ❤🙏😋

29/02/2024

I had the BEST Birthday! 🥳Thank you again to everyone who remembered me and took time to write. I'm a very lucky girl. ❤
And a BUSY one, too!!! I'm producing THREE TIMES as many TOMATO PLANTS as I did last year. 🍅🍅🍅 True, its the only thing we're growing this year, but we ran out so early last Spring, I do NOT want that to happen again! 🙏❤🙏 Have you checked out the full lineup yet?? Here it is: https://twodognursery.com/tomatoes.html And below are some of the "new" ones we'll be selling... Yikes, 3 weeks, 2 days and counting!! 🙏🙃😄

06/02/2024

The 2024 Heirloom Tomato Lineup is now live on the website! Here's the direct link: https://twodognursery.com/tomatoes.html
Have a look and start making your list!! See you on March 23rd and 24th! 44 Varieties...grown with love 🙏❤️

03/02/2024

Oh, I love you So. Cal.!! The garden produces 12 months a year; I think I'd starve in any other state! My beloved Aunt Martha would have been 99 today; I use her little harvest baskets every day and think of her and her beautiful Indiana garden. ❤🙏🥳

27/01/2024

Ha! I changed my mind! Just can't seem to really retire!! 🤣🙏🍅 SAVE THE DATES: Two Dog Nursery Two Day Tomato Party with 40 varieties of Heirloom Tomatoes! March 23rd & 24th, from 10-4. Tell your friends!! More details to come... ❤🎉

21/01/2024

While the Winter garden is producing like crazy, I'm planning to sow the first crops of Spring next week. I'm sorry, we won't be having a Pop Up this year, but who knows what the future holds? I'm game, but hubby is definitely "done with the Nursery" 😔🙃😉Actually, I think the 10-month "Warehouse Project" really took its toll, and a period of rest is probably in order.
Kales, Chard, Sorrel, Spinach, Cauliflower, Broccoli, Broccolini, Snow Peas & Sweet Peas all going full tilt. And the now-nativized Nasturtiums are running wild all over the front garden! After a brief bout of the flu, I got the Roses pruned for the season, and removing this birds nest was very touching. Alas, a Brown Headed Cow Bird (I know, I'd never heard of it either) poached the nest, and in the end, nothing survived. The nest is huge compared to the little Hummingbird nests I'm used to. Be well friends, and Garden On! ❤🙏

09/11/2023

Here are some of my Winter Squash "curing" in the sun on the side porch; there are still 8 or 10 out there that are not quite ready. I harvested all the Beets and pickled the first batch. I hope by the weekend, the rest of the Fall seedlings will be planted out. 🥳 IN CASE YOU'RE INTERESTED, I HAVE EXTRA KALE PLANTS FOR SALE: 11 Dazzling Blue, 11 Red Russian & 6 Rainbow Lacinato 🥳 Call or text me: 323-422-3835 🙏❤🐞

05/10/2023

I just picked these pretty Spanish Mammoth & Yellow Monster Sweet Peppers 😋 We'll cut them longways and stuff them like little boats. YUM! 🥳😋❤ While the Spring/Summer garden continues to produce (modestly now), the Fall Seedlings are ready to move up to 4" pots tomorrow. AND, my Seed Garlic arrived today, so I can soak it overnight and plant it in the Smart Pots tomorrow, too! Funny how when you mostly eat from the garden, cravings follow the season; I find myself hankering for broccolini, spinach, kale...🙏😋

07/09/2023

The years go so fast! (36 of them, in total) But here we are again: 32 years ago I married the greatest guy. Happy Anniversary, Amor! ❤❤❤🥳

06/09/2023

It's September and the garden is still producing like mad. I harvest every morning. I fertilized recently, so that should keep things going a bit longer. And unbelievably, I'll be sowing Fall seeds tomorrow! It never stops in Southern California! 🥳😂🙃😍

13/08/2023

Good Sunday morning, Friends! To our surprise, our new tenant at the warehouse did not want us to leave our 20-year old Ficus Benjamina (aka Weeping Fig) trees by the entry, so we've brought them home! In fairness, he does sell "exotic" trees & orchids, so I guess he wanted something from his own inventory. Anyhoo, as you can see, they are beautiful, but way too big to hang out on our driveway for very long! Please call or text if you are interested in buying them. They're very healthy, and much loved by us, their only owners. Plus to welcome them, yesterday I gave them a nice "spa treatment" of Fertilizer, Compost, Worm Castings, a deep watering and a layer of Fir Bark. Pick up only. 24" Box Size. ❤🙏🥰 323-422-3835

10/08/2023

Today's Harvest. I love my garden 😍

30/07/2023

Summer Harvest 🙏❤️😋

22/06/2023

Happy Solstice, Friends! 😎 🌞Boy, Summer simply LANDED, didn't it? 😅🤣 I was so happy to harvest our first ears of Sugar Pear Corn today...oh, how we love it! It's always a special crop to me, as my Mama grew up on a corn farm. ❤️ On another note, I wanted to share this ad which ran today in the Larchmont Buzz about our Warehouse Sale. We've got just 5 weekends left. We've expanded our hours, and we're also seeing folks by appointment. Come on by before it's all gone! Enjoy these gorgeous days and garden on! 😎😍🥳

Jo Anne & Alejandro Trigo, founders of Two Dog Nursery and La Paloma Design are closing their design warehouse, everything is for sale!