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First SUMMER PLANTING, First Week of MARCH!

Posted in Community Gardens on February 25, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

First SUMMER PLANTING, First Week of MARCH! Ground temp at Pilgrim Terrace Community Garden is now 60+ degrees!  Perfect for planting ASAP! Poke beans under finishing peas on trellises, plant tomatoes in cages with wilt resistant basil, Nufar! Colonies of corn, New Zealand spinach with the lettuces, cucumbers on trellises with dill at each end, [...]

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Give your plants a chance!

Posted in Amendments, Ants, Aphids, Biodiversity, Blood Meal, Compost, Disease, Disease Resistant, Eggplant, Fertilizer - Sidedressing, Foliar Feeding, Fish - Kelp, Heirloom, Hybrid, Manure, Mildew, Pests, Snails & Slugs, Soil, Time of Year, Tomato, Varieties, Watering, White Fly, Worm Castings, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on February 17, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Give your plants a chance! Not too much N (Nitrogen)  It imbalances your plants, just like too much sugar for us.  You get lots of leaf, no fruit, growth is too fast and ‘soft,’ inviting to pests and diseases. Watering practices make a difference.  Overhead watering is not good for most plants, but especially not for [...]

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15 Super Tips for a Productive Summer Veggie Patch!

Posted in Arugula, Basil, Beets, Biodiversity, Broccoli, Cabbage, Carrot, Chard, Companion Plant, Corn, Cucumber, Design - Layout, Determinate, Disease, Disease Resistant, Eggplant, Fava, Fungus, Fusarium Wilt, Go Vertical!, Green Beans, Herbs - Culinary, Medicinal Food Magic!, Hydrozone, Indeterminate, Interplant, Kale, Lettuce, Melon, Mildew, Mulch, Onion, Pepper, Pests, Radish, Squash, Strawberries, Succession, Summer, Tomato, Varieties, Verticillium Wilt, Watering, Zucchini, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on February 8, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Whether you are tucking things into niches between ornamental landscape plants, planting a patio patch like in the image, setting up a first time summer garden patch, or replanning your annual garden, here are some great ideas to increase your production! 1. If you have space, and are creating a back, or front, yard food forest, always [...]

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A WINTER MEDITATION ON PRUNING

Posted in Pruning, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on February 4, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

I would like to share this article with you.  Lovingly written, applies to all gardening!  Linda Buzzell, co-founder of Santa Barbara Organic Garden Club, has a true communion with plant beings, and I’m hoping we, you and I, will all work on bettering our connections with them as well.  Long before I started veggie gardening, [...]

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