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August in Your Garden!

Posted in Bat - Seabird Guano, Bean, Chard, Community Gardens, Compost, Cucumber, Epsom Salt, Fertilizer - Sidedressing, Foliar Feeding, Fish - Kelp, Harvest, Home Remedies, Lettuce, Manure, Pepper, Seeds, SeedSaving, Strawberries, Summer Plants - Warm Season, Teas- Compost, Manure, Worm, Time of Year, Varieties, Watering, Winter Plants - Cool Season, Worm Castings, tagged absorbent, abundance, aspirin, August, barrier, bat, beans, bed, blossom, bounty, chard, chop, clean up, compost, cool, cool-season, cucumber, cuke, cycle, daughter, disease, dry, Epsom Salt, fall, feed, fish emulsion, flowering, foliar, garden, gopher, ground, guano, harvest, heat, Labor Day, lettuce, manure, maturity, moist, mulch, Nov, nurseries, Oct, peppers, pest, Plant, preserve, prevention, root, runner, seabird, seed, seedlings, Sep, short, sidedressing, Soil, strawberry, summer, tomato, Varieties, veggies, water, winter, wire, worm casting on July 30, 2011 | 2 Comments »

The Next Three Months…. August is keeping your soil water absorbent, sidedressing, harvesting, plant a last round of summer favorites, start cool-season seedlings, time to preserve your abundance for winter eating, to take stock and make notes for next year’s summer planting! September is exciting because it is the first month to plant fall veggies! Do [...]

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10 Easy Steps to Make RICH COMPOST for Fall Planting!

Posted in Amendments, Bat - Seabird Guano, Blood Meal, Community Gardens, Compost, Fertilizer - Sidedressing, Foliar Feeding, Fish - Kelp, Harvest, Innoculants, Lasagna Gardening - Food Not Lawns, Manure, Mulch, Soil, Teas- Compost, Manure, Worm, Time of Year, Winter Plants - Cool Season, Worm Castings, tagged alchemy, alfalfa, bat, beneficial, black smell, blood, brown, bulk, cardboard, cast, chicken, chocolate, coffee, cold, compost, cover, Craigs list, decompose, disesase, dry, earthworm, easy, eggshell, emulsion, enclosure, fall, fast, feeder, fish, foliar, garbage, garden, Ghiradelli, grass, green, guano, harvest, homemade, horse, hot, insect, island seed & feed, kitchen, lasagna, lawn, layer, leaves, manure, meal, mesh, micro, moist, mulch, N, nature, newspaper, Nitrogen, nutrient, Oct, organic, organism, oxygenate, pallet, pest, Plant, plastic, PVC, Red, seed, Sep, Soil, steer, straw, summer, surface, tea, trench, twigs, Val Webb, veggies, vermicompost, warm, waste, weather, wet, winter, wire, worm, worm casting, wriggler, yarrow, yellow on July 6, 2011 | 2 Comments »

I love Val Webb’s image and she and I both love COMPOST! She says: There’s an irresistible alchemy involved when you can start with garbage and end up with a wildly nutrient-rich substance that has been likened to Ghirardelli chocolate for earthworms. Composting is EASY! Start Now! The weather is warm, so your compost will happen [...]

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July, August, September and October Garden Timing! Tomato-Hot Juicy July!

Posted in Amendments, Bat - Seabird Guano, Bean, Blood Meal, Chard, Community Gardens, Compost, Cucumber, Epsom Salt, Fertilizer - Sidedressing, Foliar Feeding, Fertilzer, Fish - Kelp, Gophers, Green Beans, Harvest, Lettuce, Manure, Mulch, Pests, Raised Beds, Seeds, Soil, Strawberries, Summer Plants - Warm Season, Teas- Compost, Manure, Worm, Tomato, Veggies!, Watering, Worm Castings, tagged Aug, August, Australia, bat, bean, blood meal, blossom, chard, chemical, chop, clean, compost, cool, crop, cucumber, cuke, cycle, daily, daughters, decomposition, depression, disease, dopamine, environmental, epidemic, Epsom salts, fall, feed, fish emulsion, foliar, garden, gardener, global, gopher, guano, harvest, heat, hot, immune, International, juicy, July, Labor Day, lettuce, Linda Buzzell-Saltzman, manure, mental health, mulch, natural, next, Nitrogen, Nov, November, Oct, October, Organic Garden Club, peppers, permaculturist, pest, pioneer, Plant, prep, preserve, producing, raised bed, research, Robyn Francis, root, runners, seabird, season, seed, seedling, Sep, September, serotonin, sidedress, smile, Soil, strawberry, summer, system, tea, timing, tomato, trigger, Varieties, veggies, water, wild, winter, wire barrier, worm casting, year, yellow on June 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

July is not so much a planting month as water, sidedressing, harvest, and making compost – soil prep for September & October fall plantings! Get seeds! August is keeping your soil water absorbent, sidedressing, harvesting, plant a last round of summer favorites, start cool-season seedlings, time to preserve your abundance for winter eating, to take stock and [...]

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Strawberry Tips for Tasty Super Berries!

Posted in Amendments, Antioxidant, Bat - Seabird Guano, Birds, Community Gardens, Disease, Fertilzer, Fish - Kelp, Manure, Nutrition Specifics, Pests, Seeds, SeedSaving, Skunks, Snails & Slugs, Strawberries, Veggies!, Watering, tagged 0-10-10, 200, abundant, alpine, Angular, antioxidant, Barker, barrier, bee, berry, bird, black, blight, bloom, blueberries, bread, Bright, bug, bunnies, cake, California, cat-faced, certified, Chandler, cheese, cheesecake, chewed, chicken, chocolate, chocolatier, circulation, climate, close, cloudy, cluster, cold, commercial, common, community, cones, cool, cosmetic, cream, critter, cucumber, daughter, David, Davis, day neutral, daybreak, debris, dipped, disease, distant, dry, early, earth, emulsion, everbearer, fall, family, feed, fertilizer, fiber, fish, flat, flight, flower, forage, fruit, fungicide, fungus, garden, growth, grub, guano, hands, harvest, height, hive, hole, hot, humidity, hungry, ice cream, inside, Integrated Pest Management, IPM, irregular, July, June, kelp, large, leaf, Leaf Spot, leaves, lemonade, local, Lygus Hesperus, mammoth, manganese, manure, misshapen, mulch, multiple, Muskmelon, N, NCSU, net, Nitrogen, noon, November, Nursery, nutrition, October, open, order, Oso Grande, out, overwater, peck, perimeter, phosphorus, pie, Pilgrim Terrace, pine needle, plastic, plump, pollination, pollinator, possum, potassium, produce, pumpkin, raccoon, Rebecca, Red, reliable, relocate, remove, resistant, root, rose, runner, sauce, saving, seabird, Seascape, seeds, set, shade, shake, shape, shortcake, silvery, skunk, slime, slug, sluggo, small, snail, SoCal, Soil, Southern, split, spot, spray, spread, spring, spring bearer, squash, state, storms, strawberries, sun, sunday, super, Syrah, Tarnished, tasty, temp, thrive, tip, tips, traditional, trail, trellis, UC, under, uproot, uptake, US, USDA, variety, vegetable, Vitamin C, warm, wash, water, watermelon, weather, weight, well-drained, western, whipped, wind, wire, worm, yellow, yield, yoghurt on June 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Strawberries are in the Rose family. The average berry has 200 seeds, the only fruit whose seeds are on its exterior surface! The seeds are really the fruit! Usually grown from runner daughters, they will grow from seed. Just throw down caps you bit the berry from. Sooner or later, you will have a plant [...]

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Healthy Summer Feeding, Watering, Disease & Pest Prevention!

Posted in Amendments, Aphids, Arugula, Baking Soda, Bat - Seabird Guano, Bean, Beets, Beneficials, Broccoli, Carrot, Chard, Cilantro, Community Gardens, Cucumber, Cucumber Beetle, Cultural Control, Disease, Eggplant, Epsom Salt, Fava, Fertilizer - Sidedressing, Foliar Feeding, Green Beans, Kale, Lettuce, Melon, Mildew, Nonfat Powdered Milk, NPK - Nitrogen Phosphorus Potassium, Parsley, Pepper, Pests, Pollinator, Snails & Slugs, Strawberries, Tomato, Veggies!, Watering, White Fly, tagged allysum, ants, aphid, application, arugula, baking soda, balance, bat, beans, bee, beetle, beets, beneficial, biodiversity, black, blast, block, bloom, blue, borage, broccoli, bug, bulk, burned, carrot, chard, cilantro, crop, cuc, cucumber, deep, disease, down, drench, drown, edible, eggplant, epsom, fava, feed, fertilizer, flies, flood, flower, fly, foliar, fruit, fungi, gopher, gray, green, grow, guano, gurgler, habitat, hands, harvest, head, healthy, heat, hose, hot, hover, hungry, immune, infested, insect, island seed & feed, kale, lacewing, ladybird, leaf, leafminers, lettuce, may, melon, midday, mildew, milk, month, mustard, N, Nitrogen, nonfat, orange, organism, overhead, oxygen, P, package, parsley, pepper, pest, phosphorus, Plant, pocket, pollinator, powdered, prevention, roses, row, salad, salts, seabird, seed, shield, shut, side shoot, slug, sluggo, snail, Soil, solanaceae, spot, spray, spread, star, strawberries, strawberry, summer, surface, sweet, system, timer, tomato, transplant, trap, underneath, veggies, wash, water, weed, week, white, wilt, young, zucchini, zuch on May 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Feeding. It’s heating up, your plants are growing fast, they’re hungry and need more water! Give your leaf crops like lettuce lots of Nitrogen. Don’t overfeed beans, strawberries or tomatoes or you will get lots of leaf, no crop! If you do, did, give your plants some seabird guano (bat guano is too hot sometimes). Fertilizers [...]

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APRIL is for Heat Lovers! Pull back your mulches, let soil heat up, PLANT!

Posted in Amendments, Arugula, Basil, Bat - Seabird Guano, Bean, Beets, Bone Meal, Carrot, Chard, Cilantro, Corn, Cucumber, Design - Layout, Determinate, Disease, Early Blight, Eggplant, Epsom Salt, Fertilizer - Sidedressing, Foliar Feeding, Fish - Kelp, Fungus, Fusarium Wilt, Green Beans, Heat Tolerant, Herbs - Culinary, Medicinal Food Magic!, Jicama, Late Blight, Legumes - Peas, Beans, Fava, Lettuce, Manure, Melon, Mycorrhizae, Nonfat Powdered Milk, Okra, Onion, Parsley, Peas, Pepper, Potato, PreSoak, PreSprout, Pumpkins, Radish, Seeds, Squash, Strawberries, Succession, Sunflower, Tomato, Turnip, Varieties, Veggies!, Verticillium Wilt, Watering, Watermelon, Worm Castings, tagged 105, 55, 75, AAS, airborne, All America Selections, April, arugula, baby, basil, bat, beans, beets, Black Seeded Simpson, blight, bloom, bolt, bone meal, bud, canner, cantaloupe, carrots, casting, chard, cilantro, coast, coat, community, compost, cool, corn, cucumber, daytime, deactivate, degree, dense, disease, drop, early, eggplant, eHow, endive, Epsom Salt, F1, feed, fish, foliar, French Breakfast, fungi, fusarium, garden, gound, grain, Green Bean Connection, green beans, greens, guano, harvest, heat, heirloom, herb, humidity, hybridize, Jericho, Jetsetter, kelp, kernal, leaves, Legend, lettuce, lover, maintenance, manure, mature, may, mesclun, milk, mow, mulch, mycorrhizal, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Zealand, night, nonfat, Nufar, Nursery, onion, Orange Blaze, oregano, overplant, parsley, Peas, pepper, Pilgrim Terrace, Plant, pollen, pollination, presoak, presprout, protein, radish, resistance, Romaine, root, rosemary, sage, Santa Barbara, seabird, seed, shade, sidedress, Sierra, silk, slicer, slo, soak, Soil, Solanacea, spinach, squash, stunt, succession, successive, sucker, summer, sunflower, Surecrop, tassel, thyme, tipburn, tolerant, tomato, transplant, turnips, variety, verticillium, VF, VFFNTA, VFN, virus, water, watermelon, wilt, winter, worm, wound on April 1, 2011 | 2 Comments »

Why not start with an AAS (All America Selections) 2011 Winner?! Pepper ‘Orange Blaze’ F1 Early ripening orange variety, very sweet flavor, multiple disease resistances! Get out last year’s garden notes if you made any, and review for varieties you liked, where you got ‘em, how much to plant! CORN! Plant in blocks, not rows, [...]

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Tomatoes & Wilt Part 2, Favas, Basil

Posted in Amendments, Basil, Bat - Seabird Guano, Community Gardens, Determinate, Disease, Disease Resistant, Fava, Fish - Kelp, Fusarium Wilt, Late Blight, Mycorrhizae, Summer Plants - Warm Season, Tomato, Verticillium Wilt, VFN, Worm Castings, tagged airborne, April, ArcaMax, basil, bell bean, blight, canner, companion, counteract, cure, dandelion, determinate, diagnosis, disease, dompost, Earlly Girl, early, fava, Gene Bazan, Genovese, heat, humidity, Jeavons, Jetsetter, lab, Legend, lemon, lover, March, New Hampshire Surecrop, Nov, Nufar, Nursery, pathology, Penn State, pesto, purple, resistant, seed, Sep, slicer, SoCal, Soil, Surecrop, tolerant, tomato, variety, verticillium, VF, VFFNTA, VFN, wilt, windborne on March 27, 2011 | 4 Comments »

It may seem a bit early to talk about tomatoes, but tisn’t! Hey, it’s always ok to talk about tomatoes, right?! There are important things to know about that start well before planting time! Read on…. Last year I tried the dandelion cure – either I didn’t do it right, not enough dandelions soon enough, or [...]

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Tomatoes & the Wilts – Part 1

Posted in Amendments, Artichoke, Basil, Bat - Seabird Guano, Bean, Beets, Cucumber, Disease, Disease Resistant, Early Blight, Eggplant, Fava, Fusarium Wilt, Pepper, Potato, Raised Beds, Raspberry, Rhubarb, Straw Bale, Strawberries, Tomato, Varieties, Verticillium Wilt, VFN, Watering, Watermelon, tagged 1500, 18th, AAS, Ace, All America Selections, artichoke, Aztec, balance, bale, basil, bat, bed, beet, Better Boy, Big Beef, black, black plastic, blog, bloom, blotch, box, broad bean, brown, CA, cat, Celebrity, century, Champion, coastal, cool, crop, cucumber, cut, damp, daybreak, die, dog, dry, dry farm, Early Girl, eggplant, Europe, farm, farmer, fatality, fava, First Lady, Floramerica, flower, fold, fruit, fungus, fusarium, German, Green Bean Connection, ground, guano, hands, hay, healthy, heat, heirloom, Husky Gold, Husky Red, Inca, infected, Italian Gold, Jet Star, June gloom, leaves, length, local, lower, lowest, manure, May gray, Miracle Sweet, myth, N, nematode, nightshade, Nitrogen, one-cut prune, peach, pepper, Pink Girl, Plant, poisonous, post, potatoes, raised, raspberries, remove, resistant, restore, rhubarb, Roma, root, rose, Santa Barbara, saving, seabird, shrub, small, Soil, solarization, South America, space, spot, stem, straw, strawberries, sucker, summer, SunGold, Sunstart, Super Sweet 100, susceptible, tap, tip, tomato, tree, Ultra Sweet, variety, vegetable, veggie, verticillium, Verticillium Wilt, VF, VFN, Viva Italia, warm, warn, wash, water, watermelon, weather, werewolf, werewolves, wilt, windborne, wolf on March 18, 2011 | 3 Comments »

Wolf Peach!!!! Did you know – our tomato originated in South America and was originally cultivated by the Aztecs and Incas, came to Europe in the 1500s. People were warned not to eat them until the 18th century! Wolf Peach comes from German werewolf myths that said deadly nightshade was used to summon werewolves! ‘Tis [...]

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Getting Your Summer Garden off to a Vibrant Start and Keeping it Vibrant!

Posted in Bat - Seabird Guano, Blood Meal, Bone Meal, Chard, Compost, Disease, Eggplant, Epsom Salt, Fertilizer - Sidedressing, Foliar Feeding, Fertilzer, Fish - Kelp, Lettuce, Manure, Mycorrhizae, Nonfat Powdered Milk, NPK - Nitrogen Phosphorus Potassium, Pepper, Pests, Potato, Seeds, Soil, Summer Plants - Warm Season, Tomato, Worm Castings, tagged abundant, acid, bat, bigger, bloodmeal, bloom, blossom, bone meal, calcium, casting, chicken, copost, decompose, deodorized, disease, drench, earth, eggplant, end, epsom, Epsom Salt, farmer, fertilizer, filaments, fish, flower, foliar, fruit, fungi, garden, germicide, gold, granules, growth, guano, hole, hormone, humic, hydrolyzed, immune, island seed & feed, keep, kelp, lettuce, magnesium sulfate, manure, maxicrop, milk, mulch, mycelium, mycorrhizal, N, Nitrogen, nonfat, NPK, nutrient, pathogen, pepper, pest, Phosphorous, Plant, potato, powder, powdered, predators, productive, root, rot, Rumi, salt, seabird, set, shock, sidedress, Soil, solanaceae, spray, start, steer, stinky, summer, suppression, system, thicker, tomatillo, tomato, transplant, uptake, vibrant, walled, water, weed, wise, worm on March 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

To start, especially tomatoes, 4 things! First, throw a big handful of bone meal in your planting hole and mix it in with your soil. Bone meal is high in Phosphorous (for blooming) and takes 6 to 8 weeks before it starts working – perfect timing! It is also high in calcium, which helps prevent blossom [...]

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Archive for the ‘Bat – Seabird Guano’ Category

August in Your Garden!

10 Easy Steps to Make RICH COMPOST for Fall Planting!

July, August, September and October Garden Timing! Tomato-Hot Juicy July!

Strawberry Tips for Tasty Super Berries!

Healthy Summer Feeding, Watering, Disease & Pest Prevention!

APRIL is for Heat Lovers! Pull back your mulches, let soil heat up, PLANT!

Tomatoes & Wilt Part 2, Favas, Basil

Tomatoes & the Wilts – Part 1

Getting Your Summer Garden off to a Vibrant Start and Keeping it Vibrant!

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