I used to be a total mulcher, covered my whole veggie garden. I’ve adjusted my coastal SoCal mulch* thinking to match the plant! Same goes for composting in place. That’s a good idea for some areas of your garden, other areas not at all! If you are coastal SoCal, in the marine layer zone, your mulch, or composting in place, may [...]
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Mulching/Composting in Place – Some Like it HOT!
Posted in Amendments, Bean, Beets, Carrot, Chard, Companion Plant, Compost, Cucumber, Disease, Eggplant, Fusarium Wilt, Green Beans, Heat Tolerant, Jicama, Lettuce, Manure, Melon, Mildew, Mulch, Mycorrhizae, Okra, Onion, Pepper, Pests, Pumpkins, Radish, Raised Beds, Snails & Slugs, Soil, Squash, Straw Bale, Strawberries, Summer Plants - Warm Season, Teas- Compost, Manure, Worm, Tomato, Turnip, Veggies!, Verticillium Wilt, Watering, Watermelon, Worm Castings, tagged air, bale, bean, beet, berm, bugs, cage, canopy, capture, carrot, chard, chop and drop, coastal, community, companion, compost, cucumber, debris, degradable, disease, dry, earth, eggplant, erosion, feed store, free, fungi, fusarium, garden, germinating, grass, habitat, heat, hillside, hot, humidity, inoculate, jicama, kitchen, layer, leaves, lettuce, light, living, manure, marine, Mediterranean, melon, mildew, moist, mulch, mycorrhizal, okra, onion, organic, organism, overwintering, pepper, pest, Pilgrim Terrace, pine needle, Plant, pumpkin, purslane, radish, rainwater, raised bed, Red, redwood, root, salad, seed, slug, SoCal, Soil, Southern, sprout, squash, staw, strawberry, sunny, sweet, tea, terrace, tolerant, tomato, transplant, trellis, turnip, verticillium, water, weed, wilt, wind, winter, worm, wriggler, yarrow, zone, zucchini on June 11, 2011 | 2 Comments »
In honor of Earth Day!
Posted in Community Gardens, Compost, Lasagna Gardening - Food Not Lawns, Manure, Mycorrhizae, No-dig, Raised Beds, Soil, Worm Castings, tagged aerate, air, alfalfa, amendment, bloom, brown, build, cardboard, casting, chop and drop, circulation, compost, Day, deck, decompose, dry, earth, FNL, food, food miles, Food Not Lawns, frameless, front, fruit, fungi, garden, grass, green, innoculate, landscape, lasagna, lawn, layer, leaves, manure, microclimate, minerals, mulch, mycorrhizal, N, newspaper, niche, Nitrogen, no dig, nutritious, organisms, phosphorus, pollution, raised bed, Red, restoration, rock, roots, scraps, seeds, sheet, Soil, South, straw, sun, sustainability, tarp, terrace, transplant, trim, uptake, veggies, wet, wetted, worm, wriggler, yard on April 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Food Not Lawns is all about raising veggies not grass. Studies show they both take about the same amount of water, but veggies pay back sustainably with fresh highly nutritious food on your table and no-food-miles or pollution. Plus they make seeds for their next generation, adapting to your microclimate niche! http://www.sbfoodnotlawns.org Do I have [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Broccoli! Beautiful and valuable to your health!
Posted in Antioxidant, Aphids, Blood Meal, Brassicas, Broccoli, Cabbage, Cauliflower, Cilantro, Community Gardens, Companion Plant, Compost, Fertilizer - Sidedressing, Foliar Feeding, Fertilzer, Fish - Kelp, Heat Tolerant, Lettuce, Manure, Mycorrhizae, Nutrition Specifics, Pests, Seeds, SeedSaving, Soil, Teas- Compost, Manure, Worm, Varieties, Veggies!, Watering, Winter Plants - Cool Season, tagged 35, A, ACS, AK, Alaska, American Cancer Society, anthocyanins, anticancer, antioxidant, aphid, apples, blindness, blood meal, bolt, brain, Brassica, broccoli, bud, cabbage, Cabbage Moth, Calabrese, calcium, cancer, cauliflower, Center, cilantro, clubroot, cold, cole, companion, compounds, confuse, cool, cross, Cruiser, days, DeCicco, disease, dry, enegy, ethylene, eyes, fertilizer, fish emulsion, flavor, flower, foliage, fruits, garden, gas, genus, glutamine, Green Comet, Green Goliath, ground, harvest, head, health, heat, hybrid, January, John Evans, kelp, lb, leaves, lettuce, loam, macular degeneration, manure, maturity, moist, moose, mulch, mycorrhizal fungi, N, Nitrogen, Nutribud, nutritious, older, organic, pack, Packman, Palmer, pears, peppery, pH, pods, poison, pollinate, purple, rate, respiration, salad, sandy, seed, seedbed, seedling, shade, short, side shoot, sidedress, Soil, spacing, sprouts, stalk, stir fry, summer, sun, tall, tolerant, tract, transplant, University of Connecticut, urinary, valuable, variety, vegetable, vegetarian, veggie, Vitamin, Waltham 29, water, weather, weed, well-drained, winter, yellow, yield on January 14, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Broccoli may be the most nutritious of all the cole crops, which are among the most nutritious of all vegetables. Broccoli and cauliflower (and other members of the genus Brassica) contain very high levels of antioxidant and anticancer compounds. These nutrients typically are more concentrated in flower buds than in leaves, and that makes broccoli [...]
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