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Mesclun Magic!

Posted in Broccoli, Carrot, Chard, Container Gardening, Kale, Lettuce, Succession, Veggies! on May 25, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Mesclun Magic! We’re having beautiful weather to be planting Mesclun! Plant a tray, a pretty bowl, or a patch! This is one crop you can easily do in containers! Mix up some of your favorite lettuce seeds, outdated and new, or buy a ready-made packet. Now that it’s about summer, choose some heat tolerant varieties – Sierra, Nevada, [...]

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Oh, Please, Please, Please, Garden Anywhere!

Posted in Container Gardening on May 18, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Oh, Please, Please, Please, Garden Anywhere! That means, on your doorstep, porch, balcony, tiny sunny patio, rooftop, hanging from anywhere, your sunny wall, in any container you can find, straw bales, big or little raised beds, mini niches in your landscape! Or in your large yard, starting with fruit trees on your ½ acre! Yes! [...]

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March 2011 Santa Barbara CA Gardening Events!

Posted in Container Gardening, Event!, Greenhouse, Veggies!, tagged 2011, 33, Alameda Park, April, CA, CEC, Cerena Childress, Community Environmental Council, container, Earl Warren, Earth Day, edibles, Equinox, event, Exchange, Fairview Gardens, fertility, Festival, film, Fossil Free, free, garden, gardener, Green Car, Green Shorts, Greenhouse, growing, guide, International, La Sumida, Las Positas, lasagna, layering, lazy, Los Angeles, Mark, Master, mulch, Neighborhood, Nursery, Orchid, Permaculture, practice, San Francisco, San Roque, Santa Barbara, sheet, show, Showgrounds, space, spring, Tollefson, Urban Homesteading, valet bike parking, vegetables, volunteer on March 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

March 6 Orchid Greenhouse Exchange 1 to 3, 5155 Camino Floral As with all Neighborhood Exchanges: Bring whatever you have this time or year, or a baked good to share, or something garden related: an article of interest to pass around, etc.. But do come, no matter as we all get something out of being [...]

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February 2011 Santa Barbara CA Area Garden Events!

Posted in Community Gardens, Compost, Container Gardening, Fava, Germinate, Jicama, Legumes - Peas, Beans, Fava, Rain, Seed Balls, Seeds, Seeds - Planting, tagged 2011, 3rd, adobe, annual, Apr, ball, banana, barley, beans, brewery, business, CA, canning, Catfish, CEC, chicken, class, clay, Cliff, community, compost, container, downtown, earth, eatthestreet.org, ecosystem, Environmental Council, events, expo, Fairview, farmers, Farms, fava, February, Festival, flower, Foods, fruit, garden, germinate, guerilla, habitat, Harmony, Holy Cross, home, homesteading, jicama, Jim Bones, La Sumida, marble, market, Masanobu Fukuoka, Meigs, Mesa, mulch, Nursery, nut, Oscar Carmona, pitchfork, plantation, planting, Plaza de Vera Cruze, preserves, project, rain, Santa Barbara, Saturday, seed swap, series, Shepherd, shovel, Sol, Story, Tom, trees, urban, vegetables, veggies, water, wheelbarrow on February 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

The 3rd Annual Seed Swap was a great success! I found some great fava beans donated by Tom Shepherd, Shepherd Farms. I’m still looking for some jicama seeds. There were wonderful talks, was lively music, new friendships made, and, of course, seeds gathered for mighty planting! If you didn’t make it this year, be sure to [...]

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February! SOIL & SEED Month!

Posted in Aphids, Artichoke, Asparagus, Beets, Brassicas, Broccoli, Cabbage, Carrot, Cauliflower, Celery, Chard, Community Gardens, Compost, Container Gardening, Fertilizer - Sidedressing, Foliar Feeding, Frost, Freeze, Germinate, Gophers, Harvest, Kale, Kohlrabi, Lasagna Gardening - Food Not Lawns, Lettuce, No-dig, Peas, Pests, Potato, PreSoak, PreSprout, Raised Beds, Seeds, Seeds - Planting, Snails & Slugs, Soil, Veggies!, White Fly, Winter Plants - Cool Season, tagged absorption, acidic, activate, aerate, aesthetic, amendment, aphid, artichoke, asparagus, back, bare-root, bark dust, beet, branches, break, breathing, broccoli, brown, buckwheat, build, cabbage, carbon, cardboard, carrots, cauliflower, celery, chard, chop, clippings, clover, clump, coarse, coffee filter, community, compost, concrete, conifer, container, crop, damage, decompose, dig, disease, down, drainage, dried, dry, egg shells, enzyme, fast, favorite, February, fertilize, fine, fluffy, food scraps, frost, fungi, Gaia's Garden, garden, gopher, grass, green, harvest, hay, heat, Hemenway, inoculate, January, kale, kohlrabi, lasagna, last, lawn, layer, leafy, leaves, lettuce, living, manure, March, materials, maturity, microbe, mildew, minerals, month, mulch, mycorrhizal, needles, Nitrogen, no-did, no-turn, organisms, oxygen, paper bag, path, Patricia Lanza, Peas, peat moss, peels, pile, Pilgrim Terrace, pine, Plant, potatoes, protien, prune, radish, raised bed, Red, resistant, rich, roof, root, round, sawdust, seaweed, seed, sheed, shredded, sidedress, slow, slug, snail, Soil, speed, spray, sprinkle, stems, stinky, straw, strawberries, structure, summer, thin, traditional, turning, turnips, twigs, variety, vegetable, veggie, water, weeds, wheatgrass, white flies, winter, wire, wood, wood ash, worms, wriggler, yarrow, zucchini on February 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Please see February 2010 for tips on aphids/white flies, slugs/snails, gophers, soil, seed starting basics! When there are warm days, it is ever so tempting to plant up summer veggies! Don’t do it. Not yet. Start seeds. Depending on how much space you have, plant a last round of your very favorite winter crops – [...]

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January 2011 Santa Barbara CA Area Garden Events!

Posted in Container Gardening, Event! on January 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Happy 2011! This will be our best year ever! Greener, more sustainable, more sharing! Jan 8 & 15 Mesa Harmony Garden Volunteer Events 9 to 1 PM, The Jan 8 event is followed by a class Selecting and Planting Bare Root Fruit Trees by Larry Saltzman of the SB Permaculture Society! We have 30 more [...]

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Plant a Lot in a Small Space!

Posted in Community Gardens, Companion Plant, Container Gardening, Design - Layout, Go Vertical!, Layering, Raised Beds, Stacking, Varieties, tagged ahead, alyssum, balcony, bale, bean, beds, Bountiful, broccoli, bush, butterbush, butternut, cabbage, can, carrot, clever, community, companion, container, cool, corn, cucumber, espalier, fast, fence, framing, freezer, garden, hang, hay, herbs, higher, hook, interplant, layer, lettuce, little leaf, lot, maturity, McGee, melon, nasturtium, onion, ornamentals, pea, pepper, plan, Plant, plot, pole, pot, production, radish, raised, roof, rotation, row, save, season, sides, slow, small, space, spinach, squash, Stacking, straw, strawberries, succeed, table, thinnings, tier, tomato, trellis, urban, variety, veggies, vertical, warm, window, yield on April 17, 2010 | 2 Comments »

First of two posts! See 2nd post, 4.22.10 Clever Space Saving Strategies for Your Urban Garden! To some, a 10′ X 20′ Community Garden plot is daunting, to others it is not near enough space! To get a tasty variety and enough production to keep your table steadily supplied all year, to have some to put [...]

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Archive for the ‘Container Gardening’ Category

Mesclun Magic!

Oh, Please, Please, Please, Garden Anywhere!

March 2011 Santa Barbara CA Gardening Events!

February 2011 Santa Barbara CA Area Garden Events!

February! SOIL & SEED Month!

January 2011 Santa Barbara CA Area Garden Events!

Plant a Lot in a Small Space!

Read me at Santa Barbara View!

Farmers’ Almanac BEST PLANTING DAYS!

Gardening Tips!

Planting at the Right Time!