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15 Super Tips for a Productive Summer Veggie Patch!

Posted in Arugula, Basil, Beets, Biodiversity, Broccoli, Cabbage, Carrot, Chard, Companion Plant, Corn, Cucumber, Design - Layout, Determinate, Disease, Disease Resistant, Eggplant, Fava, Fungus, Fusarium Wilt, Go Vertical!, Green Beans, Herbs - Culinary, Medicinal Food Magic!, Hydrozone, Indeterminate, Interplant, Kale, Lettuce, Melon, Mildew, Mulch, Onion, Pepper, Pests, Radish, Squash, Strawberries, Succession, Summer, Tomato, Varieties, Verticillium Wilt, Watering, Zucchini, tagged air, aromatic, arugula, back, basil, beans, beets, biodiversity, bok choi, broccoli, bush, cabbage, cage, canning, carrots, chard, circulation, clean, coastal, cucumber, culinary, damage, determinate, diagonal, disease, Eden Project, eggplant, even ripening, fava, fixing, food forest, front, fruit, fungi, fusarium, garden, ground, Grow Planner for Ipad, growth, harvest, height, herbs, increase, indeterminate, invasive, kale, landscape, lettuce, Mediterranean, melons, mildew, Mother Earth News, mulch, multi row, niche, Nitrogen, North, nutritious, onion, oregano, ornamental, overplant, patch, Patio, pepper, perennial, pest, Plant, pole, productive, radish, repel, rosemary, round, row, sage, Santa Barbara, season, seedless straw, shade, short, single, smaller, SoCal, Soil, space, spinach, squashes, Squidoo, strawberries, succession, summer, sun, super, table, tall, thin, thyme, tips, tomatoes, tree, trellis, underplanting, vegetable, Vegetable Garden Layout, veggie, verticillium, water, wilt, zucchini on February 8, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Whether you are tucking things into niches between ornamental landscape plants, planting a patio patch like in the image, setting up a first time summer garden patch, or replanning your annual garden, here are some great ideas to increase your production! 1. If you have space, and are creating a back, or front, yard food forest, always [...]

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January – the Gardening Delight of a New Year!

Posted in Amendments, Community Gardens, Compost, Fertilizer - Sidedressing, Foliar Feeding, Fish - Kelp, Frost, Freeze, Greenhouse, Interplant, Rain, Seeds, Weather, Winter Plants - Cool Season, tagged artichoke, asparagus, Atascadero, bareroot, basil, Bay Laurel Nursery, beets, broccoli, cabbage, carrots, cauliflower, celery, Chandler, chard, cosmos, day length, Digital Seed, Farmers Almanac, fava, February, floating row cover, frost map, glove, Greenhouse, harvest, horseradish, impatiens, interplant, January, kale, kohlrabi, lettuce, maintenance, March, marigolds, Nursery, onion, parsley, Peas, peppers, potatoes, radish, rain, salvia, Seascape, seeds, Sequoia, sidedress, spring, starts, strawberries, summer, tomatoes, transplant, turnips, understory, winter, zucchini on December 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Harvest, Replant, Maintenance, Spring Preps, SEEDS! Keep harvesting! Plant consideringly. That means, summer planting starts in March. January, February are generally cold, so slow growth though day length is getting longer. Keep in mind what space you want available in March for the March starts. If you are a winter plant lover gardener, one way [...]

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A Little about Onions, a LOT about GARLIC!

Posted in Amendments, Bean, Garlic, Interplant, Onion, Peas, Varieties, Veggies!, Winter Plants - Cool Season, tagged amend, artichoke, bare-root, beans, bolt, boron, bulb, California Early, California Late, cancer, cardio, chives, cholesterol, Christopher Ranch, clove, coastal, cold, Continental, Crystal Wax, day length, Dec, divide, drainage, fall, family, Feb, feed, flu, freeze, garlic, Garlic Capital, Garlic Festival, Gilroy, Granex, Grano, hard neck, harvest, insects, intermediate, interplant, Jan, judge, July, legumes, lily, long day, Maui, Mediterranean, Nov, onion, Peas, perfume, photothermoperiodic, recipe, roses, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, seeds, sets, shipper, short day, Silverskin, soft-necked, Soil, sprout, Stinking Rose, Summer Solstice, taste, temperature, vampires, Varieties, Vidalia, water, winter, Winter Solstice, world, zinc on November 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Onions: Are sensitive to temperature and day length, are photothermoperiodic! Whew! They start bulbing only after enough daylight for a certain number of days. To avoid bolting, in SoCal we need to plant seeds of short day onions in fall, or intermediate varieties in late winter. Most sets are long-day types and won’t work. Plant [...]

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Three Great FALL/WINTER GARDEN STRATEGIES

Posted in Brassicas, Broccoli, Cabbage, Cauliflower, Collards, Companion Plant, Fungus, Go Vertical!, Interplant, Kale, Lettuce, Mildew, Peas, Watering, Winter Plants - Cool Season, tagged basket, beans, beet, broccoli, Brussels sprout, cabbage, cage, cauliflower, chard, collard, companion, cut and come again, enhance, fall, fungus, gopher, harvest, interplant, kale, lettuce, mesclun, mildew, Nitrogen, nodule, onion, parsnip, Peas, radish, spinach, strategy, strawberry, stunt, trellis, water, winter, wire on September 24, 2010 | 2 Comments »

Interplanting, Cut & Come Again, Winter Watering! 1) Interplant! Plant peas at the base of your declining beans. Keep harvesting beans while your baby peas are coming. When you decide to remove your beans, clip the plant off at the ground, leaving the roots with their nitrogen nodules in the ground. Onions stunt peas, but [...]

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Urban Farmer Newsletter for Coastal Southern California, Santa Barbara CA, Pilgrim Terrace Community Garden

Archive for the ‘Interplant’ Category

15 Super Tips for a Productive Summer Veggie Patch!

January – the Gardening Delight of a New Year!

A Little about Onions, a LOT about GARLIC!

Three Great FALL/WINTER GARDEN STRATEGIES

Read me at Santa Barbara View!

Farmers’ Almanac BEST PLANTING DAYS!

Gardening Tips!

Planting at the Right Time!

Green Bean Connection

Urban Farmer Newsletter for Coastal Southern California, Santa Barbara CA, Pilgrim Terrace Community Garden

Archive for the ‘Interplant’ Category

﻿﻿15 Super Tips for a Productive Summer Veggie Patch!

January – the Gardening Delight of a New Year!

A Little about Onions, a LOT about GARLIC!

Three Great FALL/WINTER GARDEN STRATEGIES

Read me at Santa Barbara View!

Farmers’ Almanac BEST PLANTING DAYS!

Gardening Tips!

Planting at the Right Time!

15 Super Tips for a Productive Summer Veggie Patch!