Description:
Bolting to Seed is a cozy mystery about the lives of Lizzie and a group of urban farmers at Vista Mar Gardens, an organic community garden in Los Angeles. When a dead body turns up in the tool shed, Lizzie has to solve the mystery.
Brief description: Christy Wilhelmi is founder of Gardenerd, the ultimate resource for garden nerds, where she publishes newsletters, and award-winning blog posts and YouTube videos. She also specializes in small-space, organic vegetable garden design, consulting, and classes. Between 50-70 percent of her family's produce comes from her garden of less than 300 square feet. She is the author of High Yield Small Space Organic Gardening (Fox Chapel Publishing, 2025), Grow Your Own Mini Fruit Garden (Cool Springs Press, 2021), her novel Garden Variety (William Morrow/Harper Collins, 2022), and its sequel Bolting to Seed (June 2026). She lives and gardens in Los Angeles with her husband, cat, and chickens. Visit Gardenerd.com for all the dirt.