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APRIL is for Heat Lovers! Pull back your mulches, let soil heat up, PLANT!

Posted in Amendments, Arugula, Basil, Bat - Seabird Guano, Bean, Beets, Bone Meal, Carrot, Chard, Cilantro, Corn, Cucumber, Design - Layout, Determinate, Disease, Early Blight, Eggplant, Epsom Salt, Fertilizer - Sidedressing, Foliar Feeding, Fish - Kelp, Fungus, Fusarium Wilt, Green Beans, Heat Tolerant, Herbs - Culinary, Medicinal Food Magic!, Jicama, Late Blight, Legumes - Peas, Beans, Fava, Lettuce, Manure, Melon, Mycorrhizae, Nonfat Powdered Milk, Okra, Onion, Parsley, Peas, Pepper, Potato, PreSoak, PreSprout, Pumpkins, Radish, Seeds, Squash, Strawberries, Succession, Sunflower, Tomato, Turnip, Varieties, Veggies!, Verticillium Wilt, Watering, Watermelon, Worm Castings, tagged 105, 55, 75, AAS, airborne, All America Selections, April, arugula, baby, basil, bat, beans, beets, Black Seeded Simpson, blight, bloom, bolt, bone meal, bud, canner, cantaloupe, carrots, casting, chard, cilantro, coast, coat, community, compost, cool, corn, cucumber, daytime, deactivate, degree, dense, disease, drop, early, eggplant, eHow, endive, Epsom Salt, F1, feed, fish, foliar, French Breakfast, fungi, fusarium, garden, gound, grain, Green Bean Connection, green beans, greens, guano, harvest, heat, heirloom, herb, humidity, hybridize, Jericho, Jetsetter, kelp, kernal, leaves, Legend, lettuce, lover, maintenance, manure, mature, may, mesclun, milk, mow, mulch, mycorrhizal, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Zealand, night, nonfat, Nufar, Nursery, onion, Orange Blaze, oregano, overplant, parsley, Peas, pepper, Pilgrim Terrace, Plant, pollen, pollination, presoak, presprout, protein, radish, resistance, Romaine, root, rosemary, sage, Santa Barbara, seabird, seed, shade, sidedress, Sierra, silk, slicer, slo, soak, Soil, Solanacea, spinach, squash, stunt, succession, successive, sucker, summer, sunflower, Surecrop, tassel, thyme, tipburn, tolerant, tomato, transplant, turnips, variety, verticillium, VF, VFFNTA, VFN, virus, water, watermelon, wilt, winter, worm, wound on April 1, 2011 | 2 Comments »

Why not start with an AAS (All America Selections) 2011 Winner?! Pepper ‘Orange Blaze’ F1 Early ripening orange variety, very sweet flavor, multiple disease resistances! Get out last year’s garden notes if you made any, and review for varieties you liked, where you got ‘em, how much to plant! CORN! Plant in blocks, not rows, [...]

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Tomatoes & the Wilts – Part 1

Posted in Amendments, Artichoke, Basil, Bat - Seabird Guano, Bean, Beets, Cucumber, Disease, Disease Resistant, Early Blight, Eggplant, Fava, Fusarium Wilt, Pepper, Potato, Raised Beds, Raspberry, Rhubarb, Straw Bale, Strawberries, Tomato, Varieties, Verticillium Wilt, VFN, Watering, Watermelon, tagged 1500, 18th, AAS, Ace, All America Selections, artichoke, Aztec, balance, bale, basil, bat, bed, beet, Better Boy, Big Beef, black, black plastic, blog, bloom, blotch, box, broad bean, brown, CA, cat, Celebrity, century, Champion, coastal, cool, crop, cucumber, cut, damp, daybreak, die, dog, dry, dry farm, Early Girl, eggplant, Europe, farm, farmer, fatality, fava, First Lady, Floramerica, flower, fold, fruit, fungus, fusarium, German, Green Bean Connection, ground, guano, hands, hay, healthy, heat, heirloom, Husky Gold, Husky Red, Inca, infected, Italian Gold, Jet Star, June gloom, leaves, length, local, lower, lowest, manure, May gray, Miracle Sweet, myth, N, nematode, nightshade, Nitrogen, one-cut prune, peach, pepper, Pink Girl, Plant, poisonous, post, potatoes, raised, raspberries, remove, resistant, restore, rhubarb, Roma, root, rose, Santa Barbara, saving, seabird, shrub, small, Soil, solarization, South America, space, spot, stem, straw, strawberries, sucker, summer, SunGold, Sunstart, Super Sweet 100, susceptible, tap, tip, tomato, tree, Ultra Sweet, variety, vegetable, veggie, verticillium, Verticillium Wilt, VF, VFN, Viva Italia, warm, warn, wash, water, watermelon, weather, werewolf, werewolves, wilt, windborne, wolf on March 18, 2011 | 3 Comments »

Wolf Peach!!!! Did you know – our tomato originated in South America and was originally cultivated by the Aztecs and Incas, came to Europe in the 1500s. People were warned not to eat them until the 18th century! Wolf Peach comes from German werewolf myths that said deadly nightshade was used to summon werewolves! ‘Tis [...]

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Tomatoes & Fungi – Growing Great Tomatoes!

Posted in Biofumigation, Cultural Control, Disease, Early Blight, Fungus, Fusarium Wilt, Late Blight, Solarization, Tomato, Verticillium Wilt, tagged 1840, Ace, afternoon, aspirin, Barbara Pleasant, barrier, bean, Better Boy, biofumigation, bleach, blight, brown, cage, Celebrity, Champion, Chicken Soup, circulation, climate, Colorado, community, compost, control, cucumber, cultural, Davis, debris, disease, dispose, dry, early, Early Girl, eggplant, Enchantment, epidemic, evening, Extension, famine, Fearless Weeder, foliage, Fourth of July, fungi, fungicide, fungus, fusarium, garden, Gardener's Soul, ground, hand, humid, Huskey Red, infect, insect, Intregrated, IPM, Ireland, Irish, late, leaves, lettuce, management, marine layer, Marion Owen, micro, moisture, Mother Earth, mulch, N, Nitrogen, organic, over, overwinter, pepper, pest, pesticide, potato, practice, prevent, prune, rain, remove, resistant, rotate, season, seed, Soil, solarization, splash, spore, spot, spray, stake, sulfur, temperature, tolerant, tomato, tool, touch, transplant, tree, UC, United States, US, verticillium, VF, VFN, VFNT, wash, water, weed, wet, wettable, wilt, wind, winter, yellow on September 2, 2010 | 2 Comments »

What’s happening with my tomatoes?! Early Blight, Fusarium Wilt, Verticillium Wilt, Late Blight This?! Or this? This is bar none, the most common summer question I get asked! Potatoes, tomatoes, and the various forms of lettuce are the top three favorite vegetables in the US, so you can see why this is THE question! Since fungi spread [...]

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APRIL is for Heat Lovers! Pull back your mulches, let soil heat up, PLANT!

Tomatoes & the Wilts – Part 1

Tomatoes & Fungi – Growing Great Tomatoes!

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