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June, Summer Solstice, the Magic Happens!

Posted in Fertilizer - Sidedressing, Foliar Feeding, Fertilzer, Garlic, Mulch, Strawberries, Summer Plants - Warm Season, Tomato, Watering on June 1, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

June, Summer Solstice, the Magic Happens! March and April plantings are paying off handsomely now as we have warmer and the longest days of the year! Harvests are coming in, tomatoes on their way! Pick beans when your plants are dry to prevent spreading rust and mildew. Plant more rounds of your heat lovers – [...]

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Tomatoes, Wilts, Fava, Coffee Grounds

Posted in Amendments, Bone Meal, Coffee Grounds, Compost, Determinate, Disease, Fungus, Fusarium Wilt, Heirloom, Indeterminate, Manure, Nonfat Powdered Milk, Succession, Tomato, Veggies!, Verticillium Wilt, VFN, Worm Castings, tagged bean, coffee grounds, compost, cucumber, determinate, disease, fava, fusarium, germinating, green manure, indeterminate, inhibited, Jeavons, resistant, seeds, spinach, straw, successive, suppression, tolerant, tomatoes, Varieties, verticillium, weed, wilt on March 4, 2012 | 4 Comments »

Reporting on the Great Fava Versus Wilt Experiment! Some of you have been following my fava experiment, that, per John Jeavons, favas counteract the tomato Fusarium and Verticillium Wilts fungi, hoping it would work. Issues for me were lower leaves, humidity, low spots, nearby plant water needs. I religiously watered only nearby plants. But that [...]

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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 amend, ants, aphids, balance, basin, beneficial, biodiversity, blood meal, bloom, cold, compost, day length, disease, drainage, drip, eggplant, fish emulsion, furrow, garden, germination, hot, insects, manure, mildew, N, Nitrogen, organic, organisms, overhead, patch, pest, plants, possums, production, raccons, raised bed, row, season, sidedressing, skunks, slugs, snails, Soil, temp, tolerant, tomatoes, variety, veggies, virus, water, weather, weeds, whiteflies, worm castings 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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FEBRUARY is Seedling Month! Clean-up, Maintenance, More Plan than Plant!

Posted in Artichoke, Asparagus, Aspirin, Baking Soda, Community Gardens, Determinate, Disease Resistant, Fertilizer - Sidedressing, Foliar Feeding, Fertilzer, Floating Row Covers, Germinate, Greenhouse, Heat Tolerant, Heirloom, Home Remedies, Indeterminate, Lettuce, Manure, Mildew, Nonfat Powdered Milk, PreSoak, PreSprout, Seeds, SeedSaving, Tomato, Varieties, Veggies!, Winter Plants - Cool Season, tagged All America Selections, artichoke, asparagus, aspirin, baking soda, bare-root, beets, bolt, brocs, bush, cabbages, canning, cauliflower, celery, chard, clean up, coast, community garden, cycle, disease, divide, February, foliar, fungicide, garden, garlic, germicide, germination, Greenhouse, grow light, growth, hardening, harvest, heat, heirloom, horse, humus, hybrid, immune system, kale, kohlrabi, lettuce, maintenance, manure, March, Mediterranean, mildew, moisture, Peas, peat, pest, pole, potatoes, potting soil, powdered milk, presprout, pruning, radish, rain, resistant, root, seed, seed soaking, seed-saving, seedling, sidedress, snail, Society, Soil, space, spinach, steer, summer, table eating, tolerant, turnips, Varieties, vegetable, veggies, winter on January 26, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

This is your last chance to plant more rounds of winter veggies you love the most, and the littles that grow year round. Peas are especially heat sensitive, but we Coastie pea lovers can get one more round! At this time be sure they are mildew resistant varieties! But it’s really time to think in [...]

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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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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 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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A Little about Onions, a LOT about GARLIC!

Posted in Amendments, Bean, Garlic, Interplant, Onion, Peas, Varieties, Veggies!, Winter Plants - Cool Season, tagged amend, artichoke, bare-root, beans, bolt, boron, bulb, California Early, California Late, cancer, cardio, chives, cholesterol, Christopher Ranch, clove, coastal, cold, Continental, Crystal Wax, day length, Dec, divide, drainage, fall, family, Feb, feed, flu, freeze, garlic, Garlic Capital, Garlic Festival, Gilroy, Granex, Grano, hard neck, harvest, insects, intermediate, interplant, Jan, judge, July, legumes, lily, long day, Maui, Mediterranean, Nov, onion, Peas, perfume, photothermoperiodic, recipe, roses, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, seeds, sets, shipper, short day, Silverskin, soft-necked, Soil, sprout, Stinking Rose, Summer Solstice, taste, temperature, vampires, Varieties, Vidalia, water, winter, Winter Solstice, world, zinc on November 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Onions: Are sensitive to temperature and day length, are photothermoperiodic! Whew! They start bulbing only after enough daylight for a certain number of days. To avoid bolting, in SoCal we need to plant seeds of short day onions in fall, or intermediate varieties in late winter. Most sets are long-day types and won’t work. Plant [...]

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Growing Absolutely Luscious Strawberries!

Posted in Amendments, Compost, Disease, Manure, Strawberries, Varieties, Verticillium Wilt, tagged acidic, bareroot, Camarosa, Chandler, chill, compost, day neutral, eggplant, everbearing, Extension, first year, foliage, fruit, fungus, June bearing, local, manure, Nitrogen, organic, Oso Grande, overfeed, pepper, pine needles, plugs, production, root, runner, Santa Barbara, Seascape, second year, seeds, Sequoia, Soil, strawberries, time to plant, tomato, transplant, Varieties, verticillium, Vitamin C, wilt on November 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

In Santa Barbara area, today, this weekend, is the time to plant your bareroot strawberries you have had chilling in the fridge! If you just can’t do it now, do it before the 10th at the latest! If you miss this window, wait until next spring, then plant transplants. 8 medium-sized strawberries contain 140% of the [...]

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Archive for the ‘Amendments’ Category

June, Summer Solstice, the Magic Happens!

Tomatoes, Wilts, Fava, Coffee Grounds

Give your plants a chance!

FEBRUARY is Seedling Month! Clean-up, Maintenance, More Plan than Plant!

January – the Gardening Delight of a New Year!

Time to start compost for spring planting!

Mediterranean Understory & Guild Plants for Food Forests – Part 2

Divine December, Winter’s June here in SoCal!

A Little about Onions, a LOT about GARLIC!

Growing Absolutely Luscious Strawberries!

Read me at Santa Barbara View!

Farmers’ Almanac BEST PLANTING DAYS!

Gardening Tips!

Planting at the Right Time!