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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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 »
JUNE! Harvest and Don’t Stop Planting!
Posted in Arugula, Basil, Bean, Beets, Biodiversity, Carrot, Chard, Cilantro, Corn, Cucumber, Design - Layout, Eggplant, Green Beans, Herbs - Culinary, Medicinal Food Magic!, Jicama, Lettuce, Melon, Okra, Pepper, Pumpkins, Radish, Squash, Succession, Summer Plants - Warm Season, Time of Year, Tomato, Turnip, Watermelon, tagged April, August, basil, beans, beets, camping, carrots, chard, cilantro, cook, cool, corn, cucs, cucumber, decrease, dehydrate, fall, family, flower, frost, gardener, growth, harvest, heat, hibiscus, hollyhock, hot, jambalaya, jicama, June, may, melons, mid-June, month, New Zealand, night, October, okra, peppers, planting, pod, production, pumpkins, radish, raw, salad, seeds, snack, spinach, squashes, star, steam, stew, store, succession, summer, tomatoes, traditional, transplants, turnips, weather, winter, year round on May 31, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Cucumber Flowers June is another grand month for planting, more heat, fast growth. Plant in spots that have already finished; plant for succession, a continued harvest of your favorites! If you couldn’t take advantage of April or May, step up to it now! Seeds are good, transplants are faster if your summer palate is salivating! [...]
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Gardening Tips!
- All Season Plants
- Amendments
- Antioxidant
- Ants
- Aphids
- Artichoke
- Arugula
- Asparagus
- Aspirin
- Baking Soda
- Basil
- Bat – Seabird Guano
- Bean
- Beets
- Beneficials
- Biodiversity
- Biofumigation
- Birds
- Blood Meal
- Bolt Resistant/Slow Bolting
- Bone Meal
- Brassicas
- Broccoflower
- Broccoli
- Brussel Sprouts
- Bunch onions
- Cabbage
- Carrot
- Cauliflower
- Celery
- Chard
- Cilantro
- Coffee Grounds
- Collards
- Community Gardens
- Companion Plant
- Compost
- Container Gardening
- Corn
- Cucumber
- Cucumber Beetle
- Cultural Control
- Design – Layout
- Determinate
- Disease
- Disease Resistant
- Early Blight
- Edible Flowers
- Eggplant
- Epsom Salt
- Event!
- Fava
- Fertilizer – Sidedressing, Foliar Feeding
- Fertilzer
- Fish – Kelp
- Flea Beetles
- Floating Row Covers
- Frost tolerant
- Frost, Freeze
- Fungus
- Fusarium Wilt
- Garlic
- Germinate
- Go Vertical!
- Gophers
- Green Beans
- Greenhouse
- Greens
- Guild
- Harvest
- Heat Tolerant
- Heirloom
- Herbs – Culinary, Medicinal Food Magic!
- Home Remedies
- Horseradish
- Hybrid
- Hydrozone
- Indeterminate
- Innoculants
- Inoculate
- Interplant
- Jicama
- Kale
- Kohlrabi
- Lasagna Gardening – Food Not Lawns
- Late Blight
- Layering
- Leafminer
- Leeks
- Legumes – Peas, Beans, Fava
- Lettuce
- Manure
- Melon
- Mice – Rats
- Mildew
- Moon Planting
- Mulch
- Mycorrhizae
- Nematode
- Nitrogen
- No-dig
- Nonfat Powdered Milk
- NPK – Nitrogen Phosphorus Potassium
- Nutrition Specifics
- Okra
- Onion
- Parsley
- Parsnip
- Peas
- Pepper
- Permaculture
- Pests
- Pollinator
- Potato
- PreSoak, PreSprout
- Pruning
- Pumpkins
- Purslane
- Radish
- Rain
- Raised Beds
- Raspberry
- Recipes
- Rhubarb
- Seed Balls
- Seeds
- Seeds – Planting
- SeedSaving
- Sheet composting
- Skunks
- Snails & Slugs
- Soil
- Solarization
- Squash
- Stacking
- Straw Bale
- Strawberries
- Succession
- Summer
- Summer Plants – Warm Season
- Sunflower
- Teas- Compost, Manure, Worm
- Time of Year
- Tomato
- Tools
- Turnip
- Varieties
- Veggies!
- Verticillium Wilt
- VFN
- Watering
- Watermelon
- Weather
- White Fly
- Winter Plants – Cool Season
- Worm Castings
- Yam
- Zucchini
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