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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 »

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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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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Successful Seed Varieties for Sep/Oct Planting!

Posted in Broccoli, Chard, Disease, Disease Resistant, Fusarium Wilt, Heat Tolerant, Hybrid, Mildew, Peas, Seeds, Time of Year, Varieties, VFN, Winter Plants - Cool Season, tagged AAS, All America Selection, all season, antioxidant, August, Bright Lights, broccoli, Calabrese, chard, China, Chinese, cold, cool, Cruiser, cut and come again, DeCicco, disease, dry, Dwart Grey Sugar, early, English, F, F1 Hybrid, fall, flat, Fordhook, frost, fusarium, garden, Giant, Green Comet, Green Goliath, harvest, Harvest Wizard, head, heat tolerant, heirloom, high yield, Italian, Mammoth Melting, mature, Neon, nutritious, Oct, Packman, Peas, Plant, pm, pod, powdery mildew, produce, recipe, resistance, resistant, salad, seed, Sep, shelling, side shoot, sideshoot, snack, snap, snow, spring, sprout, sugar, Sugar Ann, Sugar Daddy, Sugar Rae, Sugar Snap, summer, Sweet Snap, tolerant, variety, Waltham 29, weather, winter on July 22, 2011 | 1 Comment »

Select the best varieties of these 3 popular winter plants – Chard, Broccoli, Peas! Be gathering up your seeds now, start them mid August! Your transplants will go in the ground late September or October. 1) Chard is a super producer per square foot, also highly nutritious, and low, low calorie! Select early maturing varieties for eating [...]

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Mulching/Composting in Place – Some Like it HOT!

Posted in Amendments, Bean, Beets, Carrot, Chard, Companion Plant, Compost, Cucumber, Disease, Eggplant, Fusarium Wilt, Green Beans, Heat Tolerant, Jicama, Lettuce, Manure, Melon, Mildew, Mulch, Mycorrhizae, Okra, Onion, Pepper, Pests, Pumpkins, Radish, Raised Beds, Snails & Slugs, Soil, Squash, Straw Bale, Strawberries, Summer Plants - Warm Season, Teas- Compost, Manure, Worm, Tomato, Turnip, Veggies!, Verticillium Wilt, Watering, Watermelon, Worm Castings, tagged air, bale, bean, beet, berm, bugs, cage, canopy, capture, carrot, chard, chop and drop, coastal, community, companion, compost, cucumber, debris, degradable, disease, dry, earth, eggplant, erosion, feed store, free, fungi, fusarium, garden, germinating, grass, habitat, heat, hillside, hot, humidity, inoculate, jicama, kitchen, layer, leaves, lettuce, light, living, manure, marine, Mediterranean, melon, mildew, moist, mulch, mycorrhizal, okra, onion, organic, organism, overwintering, pepper, pest, Pilgrim Terrace, pine needle, Plant, pumpkin, purslane, radish, rainwater, raised bed, Red, redwood, root, salad, seed, slug, SoCal, Soil, Southern, sprout, squash, staw, strawberry, sunny, sweet, tea, terrace, tolerant, tomato, transplant, trellis, turnip, verticillium, water, weed, wilt, wind, winter, worm, wriggler, yarrow, zone, zucchini on June 11, 2011 | 2 Comments »

I used to be a total mulcher, covered my whole veggie garden. I’ve adjusted my coastal SoCal mulch* thinking to match the plant! Same goes for composting in place. That’s a good idea for some areas of your garden, other areas not at all! If you are coastal SoCal, in the marine layer zone, your mulch, or composting in place, may [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 & Wilt Part 2, Favas, Basil

Posted in Amendments, Basil, Bat - Seabird Guano, Community Gardens, Determinate, Disease, Disease Resistant, Fava, Fish - Kelp, Fusarium Wilt, Late Blight, Mycorrhizae, Summer Plants - Warm Season, Tomato, Verticillium Wilt, VFN, Worm Castings, tagged airborne, April, ArcaMax, basil, bell bean, blight, canner, companion, counteract, cure, dandelion, determinate, diagnosis, disease, dompost, Earlly Girl, early, fava, Gene Bazan, Genovese, heat, humidity, Jeavons, Jetsetter, lab, Legend, lemon, lover, March, New Hampshire Surecrop, Nov, Nufar, Nursery, pathology, Penn State, pesto, purple, resistant, seed, Sep, slicer, SoCal, Soil, Surecrop, tolerant, tomato, variety, verticillium, VF, VFFNTA, VFN, wilt, windborne on March 27, 2011 | 4 Comments »

It may seem a bit early to talk about tomatoes, but tisn’t! Hey, it’s always ok to talk about tomatoes, right?! There are important things to know about that start well before planting time! Read on…. Last year I tried the dandelion cure – either I didn’t do it right, not enough dandelions soon enough, or [...]

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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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Preventing Powdery Mildew

Posted in Baking Soda, Bean, Community Gardens, Cucumber, Disease, Disease Resistant, Fusarium Wilt, Home Remedies, Melon, Mildew, Nonfat Powdered Milk, Peas, Pumpkins, Squash, Varieties, tagged 18 Karat Gold, AM, Ambassador, Ambrosia F1, Avola, baking soda, bean, before, can, Cavalier, Cornell, cucumber, Cumlaude, debris, detergent, disease, dish, Diva, downey, drench, entation, full, fusarium, Gladiator, green, Greenshaft, ground, habitat, hands, healthy, Hurst, infected, Kelevdon Wonder, level, longbean, Media F1, melon, Merpatim, mildew, milk, mix, Muskmelon, neighbor, nonfat, Oasis, overhead, Parkit, pea, Peawee, Perkutut, powder, powdery, practice, prevent, Primo, Provider, prune, pumpkin, reinfect, remove, resistant, Rondo, slicer, soda, spores, spread, squash, Sriti, Success, summer, sun, Sun Jewel, Sunglo, Sunray, tolerant, tools, Twinkle, University, variety, virus, wash, water, weekly, western, Wildcat, wilt, windborne, winter, yellow, zucchini on March 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Select powdery mildew resistant or tolerant varieties! Cornell University’s lists of Disease Resistant Varieties Longbeans Green beans: Provider, Merpatim, Parkit, Perkutut, Sriti Cucumber: Diva, Cumlaude, Media F1. Slicers: Cornell’s list Muskmelon: Ambrosia F1, Primo (western type), Sun Jewel Pea: Ambassador – Resistant to powdery mildew, entation virus and fusarium wilt Cavalier - Good resistance to powdery mildew. [...]

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Tomatoes, Wilts, Fava, Coffee Grounds

15 Super Tips for a Productive Summer Veggie Patch!

Successful Seed Varieties for Sep/Oct Planting!

Mulching/Composting in Place – Some Like it HOT!

Summer Watering Coastal SoCal

Tomatoes are the Fireworks of Your Summer Garden!

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

Tomatoes & Wilt Part 2, Favas, Basil

Tomatoes & the Wilts – Part 1

Preventing Powdery Mildew

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