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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 & 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 & Wilt Part 2, Favas, Basil

Tomatoes & Fungi – Growing Great Tomatoes!

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