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January – the Gardening Delight of a New Year!

Posted in Amendments, Community Gardens, Compost, Fertilizer - Sidedressing, Foliar Feeding, Fish - Kelp, Frost, Freeze, Greenhouse, Interplant, Rain, Seeds, Weather, Winter Plants - Cool Season, tagged artichoke, asparagus, Atascadero, bareroot, basil, Bay Laurel Nursery, beets, broccoli, cabbage, carrots, cauliflower, celery, Chandler, chard, cosmos, day length, Digital Seed, Farmers Almanac, fava, February, floating row cover, frost map, glove, Greenhouse, harvest, horseradish, impatiens, interplant, January, kale, kohlrabi, lettuce, maintenance, March, marigolds, Nursery, onion, parsley, Peas, peppers, potatoes, radish, rain, salvia, Seascape, seeds, Sequoia, sidedress, spring, starts, strawberries, summer, tomatoes, transplant, turnips, understory, winter, zucchini on December 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Harvest, Replant, Maintenance, Spring Preps, SEEDS! Keep harvesting! Plant consideringly. That means, summer planting starts in March. January, February are generally cold, so slow growth though day length is getting longer. Keep in mind what space you want available in March for the March starts. If you are a winter plant lover gardener, one way [...]

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Kale, Super Nutritious, Low in Calories, Easy to Grow!

Posted in Kale, tagged Alaska, biennial, bioavailable, blood pressure, Brassica, butternut squash, calcium, chips, curly leaf, Dinosaur, Elephant, Florida, kale, Lacinato, lettuce, lime, low calories, milk, Mother Earth, nutritious, orange juice, ornamental, prepare, Red Russian, salad, Savoy, Vitamin A, Vitamin C, women on December 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Wishing you all very GREEN and Happy Holidays, and holiday weekend gardening! Kale, Super Nutritious, Low in Calories, Easy to Grow! Per Mother Earth’s News, kale’s attractive greenery packs over ten times the vitamin A as the same amount of iceberg lettuce, has more vitamin C per weight than orange juice, and provides more calcium than [...]

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Time to start compost for spring planting!

Posted in Compost, Lasagna Gardening - Food Not Lawns, Manure, Nitrogen, Sheet composting, Soil, tagged bean, brown, California Rare Fruit Tree Growers, castings, Chicken Soup for the Gardener's Soul, Chief Seattle, clover, compost, decompose, drought, dry, fava, green, inoculate, lasagna, layer, leaves, legume, Leucaena, manure, Margaret Frane, Marion Owen, minerals, Nitrogen, organic, pea, planting, raised bed, recondition, restore, seaweed, seed, sheet, Soil, spring, tolerant, trace, transplant, trees, wet, worm on December 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Time to start compost for spring planting! Did you make rich fall soil? If so, your bin and sheet composting is really paying off now! If you have more compost available now, incorporate it with the soil in your new planting places, and plant another round! Keep ‘em coming! Now it is time to start [...]

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Mediterranean Understory & *Guild Plants for Food Forests – Part 1

Posted in Companion Plant, Design - Layout, Guild, Permaculture, tagged apple, bare-root, Beard, biological, Buzzell, California, California Rare Fruit Tree Growers, coastal, companion, Craig Chalquist, dense, design, ecological, economical, ecotherapist, Ecotherapy, edible, food, food miles, forest, fruit, Gaia's Garden, garden, guild, habitat, Healing with Nature in Mind, health, Hemenway, International Association for Ecotherapy, land, landscape, Linda, Mediterranean, model, native, nature, Norm, Nursery, nutritious, organic, Organic Garden Club, Plant, psychotherapist, restore, rose, Rose Society, Saltzman, Santa Barbara, Sierra Club, Southern, stock, suburban, support, sustainable, system, Toby, tree, understory, Varieties, vertical, water, yard, zone on December 9, 2011 | 1 Comment »

This is a great time to install native plants and fruit trees, so see if any of this info affects where and how you place them. A food forest can be anchored by a south opening ‘U’ shaped planting of trees that captures heat for growing veggies in its center area. It can start with [...]

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Mediterranean Understory & Guild Plants for Food Forests – Part 2

Posted in Bean, Beneficials, Birds, Brassicas, Broccoli, Carrot, Chard, Cilantro, Companion Plant, Design - Layout, Edible Flowers, Fava, Garlic, Go Vertical!, Guild, Herbs - Culinary, Medicinal Food Magic!, Kale, Mulch, NPK - Nitrogen Phosphorus Potassium, Onion, Parsley, Permaculture, Pests, Potato, Soil, Varieties, tagged abundant, Achira, alkaline, America, animal, Apache, artichoke, autumn, balm, bamboo, beauty, beneficial, berries, bird, blackberry, blueberry, borage, Brassicas, bud, bulb, California, cane, canna, Canna edulis, carrot, ceanothus, chili, chop and drop, cilantro, climate, Coast Village, coastal, coffee grounds, companion, crop, dandelion, daylilies, drought, earth, eat, edible, elderberry, enrich, erosion, fall, fava, Feijoa, flower, food, forest, fruit, Gaia's Garden, garden, gardener, garlic, geranium, grapes, ground cover, grow, guava, guild, habitat, Hemenway, Hemerocallis, herb, insects, Italian, lantana, lavender, lbuzzell, lemmonii, lemon, lemonade, local, Los Arroyos, Master Gardener, medicinal, medicine, Mediterranean, melon, message, minerals, mint, Misty, mulch, mustard, nasturtium, native, nature, Nautilus Gold Medal Award, Navajo, Nitrogen, nitrogen accumulator, nurse, Nursery, nutrients, O'Neal, onion, oregano, organic, ornamental, parsley, passion, PatternLiteracy, pelargonium, pepino, pepper, Permaculture, pest, petal, pine needles, pineapple, Plant, potato, Psidium, psychological, Rhus integrifolia, root, rosemary, roses, sacrificial, sage, salad, salvia, Santa Barbara, scarlet runner bean, scented, sedum, shade, Sharpblue, shrub, Soil, Southern, space, spinach, spiritual, strawberry, suburban, succulent, sucker, swale, table, tagetes, tea, thornless, Toby, tolerant, tree, tropical, understory, urban, use, veggie, verbena, vertical, vine, wine, yard, yield, yucca on December 9, 2011 | 2 Comments »

Please SEE Part 1 before you read this list! Here is what a young Food Forest can look like in a part of your urban yard! Linda’s List is intended for a Mediterranean climate like coastal Southern California has, one of only 5 in the world. The list in your area may be different. Check out [...]

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Divine December, Winter’s June here in SoCal!

Posted in Amendments, Aphids, Artichoke, Arugula, Asparagus, Basil, Beets, Brassicas, Broccoli, Brussel Sprouts, Bunch onions, Cabbage, Carrot, Cauliflower, Celery, Chard, Cilantro, Collards, Fava, Fertilizer - Sidedressing, Foliar Feeding, Frost, Freeze, Garlic, Gophers, Kale, Kohlrabi, Leafminer, Lettuce, Peas, Pepper, Potato, PreSoak, PreSprout, Radish, Seeds, Snails & Slugs, Strawberries, Tomato, Turnip, Veggies!, Weather, White Fly, Winter Plants - Cool Season, tagged aphid, artichoke, arugula, August, baking soda, barrier, basil, basket, beet, Bob Anderson, Brassica, broc, broccoli, bunch onion, cabbage, carrot, catalog, cauliflower, celery, Cerena, chard, Charles Dawson Shanly, clove, collard, Dec 21, December, everbearer, Farmers Almanac, fava, fertilizer, fish, foliar, freeze, frost, garden, garlic, gift, gopher, harvest, Holiday, island seed & feed, June, kale, kelp, kohlrabi, leafminer, leaves, legume, lettuce, manure, mesclun, Nitrogen, organic, Peas, pepper, pest, Plant, potato, powdered, radish, rubbing alcohol, seed, September, sidedressing, Silversmith, skin, slug, snail, soak, SoCal, Soil, spring, sprout, strawberry, successive, sustainable, tea, tomato, transplant, trap, turnip, veggies, water, weather, white flies, winter, Winter Solstice, wire, yellow on December 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Happy Winter Solstice/Yule, Dec 21st! I like this saying I found at the Old Farmers Almanac: Old Frost, the Silversmith has come: His crisping touch is on the weeds. – Charles Dawson Shanly And, bless him, his touch will soon be on our veggies! Some will love it; kales are said to taste better after [...]

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Archive for December, 2011

January – the Gardening Delight of a New Year!

Kale, Super Nutritious, Low in Calories, Easy to Grow!

Time to start compost for spring planting!

Mediterranean Understory & *Guild Plants for Food Forests – Part 1

Mediterranean Understory & Guild Plants for Food Forests – Part 2

Divine December, Winter’s June here in SoCal!

Read me at Santa Barbara View!

Farmers’ Almanac BEST PLANTING DAYS!

Gardening Tips!

Planting at the Right Time!