Reporting on the Great Fava Versus Wilt Experiment! Some of you have been following my fava experiment, that, per John Jeavons, favas counteract the tomato Fusarium and Verticillium Wilts fungi, hoping it would work. Issues for me were lower leaves, humidity, low spots, nearby plant water needs. I religiously watered only nearby plants. But that [...]
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Tomatoes, Wilts, Fava, Coffee Grounds
Posted in Amendments, Bone Meal, Coffee Grounds, Compost, Determinate, Disease, Fungus, Fusarium Wilt, Heirloom, Indeterminate, Manure, Nonfat Powdered Milk, Succession, Tomato, Veggies!, Verticillium Wilt, VFN, Worm Castings, tagged bean, coffee grounds, compost, cucumber, determinate, disease, fava, fusarium, germinating, green manure, indeterminate, inhibited, Jeavons, resistant, seeds, spinach, straw, successive, suppression, tolerant, tomatoes, Varieties, verticillium, weed, wilt on March 4, 2012 | 4 Comments »
Summer Watering Coastal SoCal
Posted in Aphids, Arugula, Bean, Beets, Broccoli, Bunch onions, Celery, Chard, Cucumber, Disease, Eggplant, Fungus, Fusarium Wilt, Garlic, Green Beans, Greens, Kale, Legumes - Peas, Beans, Fava, Lettuce, Mildew, Onion, Parsley, Peas, Pests, Strawberries, Summer Plants - Warm Season, Tomato, Veggies!, Verticillium Wilt, Watering, White Fly, tagged AM, aphids, arugula, beans, beets, broccoli, bulb, bunch onions, burn, can, celery, chard, coastal, cucumbers, da Vinci, daily, disease, drink, drop, drown, dry, eggplant, end, evening, fast, flavor, flies, flower, flush, fruit, fungi, fungus, fusarium, fuzzy, garlic, grow, growth, hot, inch, irregular, kale, kill, leaf crops, leaves, leonardo, lettuce, micro, midday, mildew, misshapen, moist, mulch, nature, onions, organism, overwater, oxygen, Peas, pest, production, root, season, seed, seedling, shade, shallow, SoCal, Soil, spot, squash, stop, strawberries, structure, summer, sweet, tender, tomato, transplant, underneath, verticillium, water, weather, week, white, wilt, windy on June 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Water is the driver of Nature. - Leonardo da Vinci When, Who, How, & How Much to Water Midday, on a hot day, watering will burn the leaves. Evening watering promotes mildew, fungus growth. Plants drink during the day, so AM watering is best. Plants that need little or no water and why: Onions, garlic, that are [...]
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 [...]
Wet/Dry Winter? Powdery Mildew….
Posted in Baking Soda, Community Gardens, Fungus, Mildew, Nonfat Powdered Milk, Raised Beds, Watering, tagged baking soda, cover, Davis, drainage, drench, dry, erosion, fungi, garden, ground, Integrated Pest Management, IPM, landscape, mildew, milk, molds, muddy, native, nonfat, oil, oxygen, path, pine needle, powdered, powdery, prevention, raised bed, slope, soap, soggy, spout, straw, UC, veggie, warm, water, wet, winter on November 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
A wet winter? Dry winter? If you think that might happen, excellent time to establish native plants and ground covers in your landscape, make raised beds in your veggie garden! They don’t have to have a frame, in fact, you can ‘make more space’ by planting on the sloped sides, preventing erosion! The plants that [...]
Ugh. Slugs & Snails, Aphids/White Flies, Powdery Mildew
Posted in Aphids, Baking Soda, Broccoli, Cabbage, Epsom Salt, Fungus, Home Remedies, Kale, Mildew, Nonfat Powdered Milk, Peas, Pests, Snails & Slugs, White Fly, tagged aphid, baking soda, copper, epsom, Epsom Salt, Escar-Go, fungus, habitat, home remedy, Intregrated Pest Management, IPM, mildew, milk, organic, powdery, prevent, sluggo, slugs, snails, University of California, white flies, white fly on October 8, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Slugs and Snails can eat a plant overnight, only the bare stem remaining, if that. Some good strategies are below. For important details, please see University of California, Integrated Pest Management (IPM) Snails and Slugs Remove hiding places – leave a few hiding places (traps), remove the snails that gather there Use drip irrigation to [...]
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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