3 Favorite Beneficial Insects & Their Habitats! HABITAT is the key word! If they and their babies don’t have a place to live all year long, and plenty to eat, they will die or move on. Make good homes for these garden heroes and heroines! Ladybird Beetles eat aphids, scales and mites. Both adults and larvae live [...]
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3 Favorite Beneficial Insects & Their Habitats!
Posted in Beneficials on May 11, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Herbs and Your Winter Veggies
Posted in Artichoke, Beets, Beneficials, Broccoli, Brussel Sprouts, Cabbage, Carrot, Cauliflower, Celery, Chard, Cilantro, Collards, Companion Plant, Garlic, Kale, Leeks, Lettuce, Onion, Parsley, Peas, Pests, Potato, Strawberries, Time of Year, Veggies!, Winter Plants - Cool Season on November 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Herbs and Your Winter Veggies Lavender, Marguestau at http://lestroisamies.wordpress.com/ Herbs – Pretty, aromatic, to repel pests! The flavors that makes veggie dishes come alive! Now’s the time for them to get a good start, with fall and winter rains coming. Divide the ones you already have growing now as your plants slow down. Rosemary and [...]
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 [...]
Tomatoes are the Fireworks of Your Summer Garden!
Posted in Community Gardens, Cultural Control, Disease, Disease Resistant, Fungus, Fusarium Wilt, Heat Tolerant, Heirloom, Pollinator, Summer Plants - Warm Season, Tomato, Varieties, Veggies!, Verticillium Wilt, VFN, Watering, tagged 104, 55, 70, 85, above, airborne, below, blossom, blossom-end rot, branch, cage, daytime, drop, dry farm, early, Early Girl, fireworks, flavor, Florasette, flower, fungi, garden, grown, healthy, heat, heat set, Heat Wave, heirloom, High, home, Jetsetter, John Denver, leaves, Legend, low, Matina, maturing, moist, money, nighttime, NV, Oregon Spring, pinch, Polar Baby, pollination, production, prune, question, resistance, root, season, seed, shape, Silvery Fir Tree, Soil, Solar Set, splash, spring, stem, suckers, summer, Sunchaser, Sunmaster, Sunpride, Surfire, temp, temperature, tolerance, tolerant, tomato, transplant, trellis, true love, University, variety, veggies, water, wilt, wound, zone on May 5, 2011 | 1 Comment »
They really are, aren’t they?! The most common summer veggie question I get asked is, ‘What’s wrong with my tomatoes?’ So here are reminders, tips to keep your plants healthy and in strong production! In areas with wilts in the soil, plant only toms that have resistance or tolerance to the wilts; avoid heirlooms. Jetsetter, an [...]
Merry May Veggie Gardening to You!
Posted in Basil, Bean, Beets, Beneficials, Broccoli, Carrot, Community Gardens, Corn, Cucumber, Eggplant, Green Beans, Lettuce, Melon, Okra, Parsley, Pepper, Pollinator, Pumpkins, Radish, Squash, Sunflower, Tomato, Turnip, Veggies!, Watermelon, tagged 2011, April, basil, bean, bee, beet, beneficial, biennial, black, bounty, bouquet, broccoli, California, cantaloupe, carpenter, carrot, chard, chayote, chopped, cook, corn, cosmos, cucs, earth, eggplant, favorite, female, flavor, flower, fuzzy, garden, Garni, giveaway, harden, harvest, heat, herb, hungry, insect, leaves, lettuce, lover, luscious, male, Mama, marigolds, mashed, mature, may, melons, month, okra, oregano, parsley, peppers, petunias, pick, pollinator, pruning, pumpkins, radish, root, rubbed, sage, seed, soup, sprout, squash, stalk, steeped, sting, storing, summer, sunflower, sweet alyssum, Teddy Bear, thyme, tomatoes, turnips, Varieties, variety, veggie, vine, winter, year-arounds, yellow, zucchini, zuch, zuchs on May 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
April 15, 2011 I had my first encounter with a huge male carpenter bee – see image! Awesome! They are all fuzzy and yellow (not all black like the females), sometimes called Teddy Bear Bees, and I could totally see why! They hover closely and look you right in the eye, buzz off and come [...]
September, Last Tasty Summer Harvests; Time for Brassicas, Celery & Peas
Posted in Antioxidant, Aphids, Biofumigation, Bolt Resistant/Slow Bolting, Brassicas, Broccoflower, Broccoli, Brussel Sprouts, Cabbage, Cauliflower, Celery, Collards, Cultural Control, Gophers, Kale, Kohlrabi, Lettuce, Peas, Seeds, SeedSaving, White Fly, Winter Plants - Cool Season, tagged antioxidant, aphid, biofumigation, Brassicas, broccoli, Brussels Sprouts, cabbage, cauliflower, celery, collards, companion, December, glucosinolate, gopher, harvest, insecticide, journal, kale, kohlrabi, Labor Day, lettuce, natural, November, October, Peas, seed, September, transplant, white fly, winter on September 1, 2010 | 1 Comment »
The next months…so you can plan ahead! As more of your plants are finishing, make notes about your summer crops in your garden journal. September Let some plants continue to grow for seed saving! First fall planting month! Planting from seeds is fun; transplants produce sooner. Plant Sweet Peas for Christmas bloom! Plant gift plants [...]
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- Fertilzer
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- Floating Row Covers
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