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Fall Veggie Time!!

Beets! We are offer three great varieties in six packs! Bulls Blood. Chiogga, and Golden!

We are now fully stocked with gorgeous, organic veggies in perfect timing to get them going for your fall/winter harvests! Plant seeds or seedlings of vegetables this late summer in your garden or containers to have the ultimate convenience food throughout the fall. Fall vegetable gardening is much easier than in the spring/summer and you can plant the most nutritious varieties! From beets, broccoli, peas, lettuce and all sorts of greens, you’ll have the ultimate convenience food throughout the cool season. Picking just the leaves you need from your own garden really does save trips to the grocery store. And you’ll have the freshest greens for dropping into salads, pastas, soups and sandwiches. Here are a few tips for fall vegetable gardening success… *Some people find it easier to start with small plants from sixpacks but starting from seed this

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How to make and care for your DIY Succulent Orb

Completed Succulent Orb from DIG Gardens

Creating & Caring for Your Hanging Succulent Orb Garden from DIG Gardens We have been getting a bazillion orders for our amazing Succulent Orbs! And even though we do send you directions with your order, some of you may be curious how to put one of these beauties together before you order. So here is the step by step directions. The small orb is easiest one to complete, probably in a couple of hours. The medium and large orbs will take longer. We suggest having a succulent orb party with a couple of friends to get the job done faster! Call the store for details about ordering a completed orb. (831) 466-3444 1. Completely submerge the Sphagnum Moss Ball in water for approximately 2 minutes. 2. The following day after the ball has dried out slightly, it is time to

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DIG Gardens- a Saturday night pop-up restarant!!

DIG Gardens hosts Supper Club every Saturday night with Lightfoot Industries! It could be the best one-night stand you ever had. In today’s economy, enterprising chefs are reinventing the restaurant experience with out-of-the-box options for dining out. Called a pop-up restaurant, it’s an underground supper club for a single evening of atmospheric cuisine. DIG Gardens is so excited to be collaborating with Lightfoot Industries an amazing, innovative company that works with teens to teach them real life fundamentals and job skills. The talented Chef, Kevin Koebel of Local FATT, in addition to occasional guest chefs prepare healthy, localy sourced, delicious meals. They also offer vegetarian and gluten free options at all of their Supper Club events. $30 for a five course organic meal and dessert- lets DIG in! Supper Club hours: 6:30-7:30PM Cocktails/Mock-tails + Private Shopping + Cool Beats 7:30-8:30PM Dinner

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Jeffrey Gordon Smith Book Signing

Join us on Sat. December 11th for a book release signing and celebration with Landscape Architect Jeffrey Gordon Smith! He will be sharing his design aspects on Regionalism and his new book, a collection of his amazing designs all over the California coast.

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Celebrate the holiday season at DIG Gardens!

Please join us Sat. December 4th between 5 and 8 PM for our annual holiday open house! We will have appetizers, wine, hot apple cider for the kids and great live jazz to listen to. Shop for great gifts for the gardeners in your life or get the perfect Christmas tree. Meet the owners and find out what great things we have planned for the store for the new year! We appreciate all the support from our customers over the past year and want to celebrate with you!!!

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The Holiday Season has arrived!

The holiday season is upon us and we are fully stocked with our many beautiful and freshly cut trees! We offer six varieties of cut trees including Silvertips (as featured in Sunset Magazine, December 2010) Noble, Nordmann, Fraser, Balsam and White Firs. The Silvertip trees are our personal favorites here at DIG, with their strong, openly spaced branches, perfect for ornaments. They have beautiful silver foliage that are extremely long lasting and hardly drop any needles! The Silvertips and the white firs are wild grown and sustainably harvested from managed forests in the California mountains. All of our gorgeous trees are harvested only a few days before we receive them, so you can be sure to have the longest lasting, highest quality tree this year.

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Air Plants

Air Plants or Tillandsias can grow without soil and with little water (though they like humidity and do not like direct sun). You can keep them alive by dunking them in water once a week. We just received a huge, beautiful and blooming shipment of these easy-care houseplants. I love seeing a bunch of air plants as accessories in a bowl on a table, so modern and chic. You can also highlight their sculptural shapes and subtle colors by propping them in glass vessels or by mounting them with wire onto hanging wooden plaques. So I decided to post some pics and give everyone the low down on how to care for them. Come by the store to see them and all the wonderful ways to display them in your home or covered patio this Summer. Tillandsias are attractive and

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DIG into Spring Party!

We are having another party at DIG. Its like a second grand opening, but now that we’ve been open a little longer and the days are getting warmer, we figured it is an opportune time to have a little “shin-DIG”! We will have live music, food and wine. Loads of people in the gardening, design trade, arists and other local businesses will be there. We hope all of our customers will join us as we DIG into Spring! Friday evening, May 21st 6-9pm. Extra parking at Chase bank, next door.

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I’m gonna get you Succa!

We’ve got Succulents! Gorgeous, Colorful ,Drought Tolerant and Abundant at DIG! These succas are ready to bejewel your garden! We love this Echeveria ‘blue curls’. Very soon we will have our vertical succulent wall from the San Francisco garden show installed in the garden courtyard. Thanks to everyone who came to our first workshops held at DIG on Sunday. The Backyard Bees and Designing Succulent Containers workshops were a hit! We have many more to come in April, register for them on the events page. This Sunday we have the Terrariums and Edible Landscaping Workshops.