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 »
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
PLANT Your First Round of Summer Veggies!!!!!
Posted in Artichoke, Bean, Beets, Broccoli, Cabbage, Carrot, Chard, Cilantro, Community Gardens, Corn, Cucumber, Design - Layout, Determinate, Disease, Eggplant, Fusarium Wilt, Indeterminate, Lettuce, Melon, Okra, Onion, Peas, Pepper, Potato, Pumpkins, Radish, Seeds, Squash, Strawberries, Summer Plants - Warm Season, Time of Year, Tomato, Turnip, Verticillium Wilt, Winter Plants - Cool Season, tagged amendment, April, artichoke, bean, beets, broccoli, bunch, cabbage, carrot, chamomile, chard, cilantro, cool-season, corn, cucumber, determinate, drainage, eggplant, flower, fusarium, gardener, gift, Greenhouse, heat, humid, indeterminate, June, lettuce, lima, lottery, lover, March, melon, mildew, Mother's Day, New Zealand, okra, onion, Peas, pepper, Pilgrim Terrace, poppy, potato, powdery, Provider, pumpkin, radish, resistant, round, seed, South, spinach, squash, starts, strawberry, succession, summer, tomatoes, transplant, turnip, verticillium, vine, wilt, winter on March 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
FIRST WEEK OF MARCH! Go get your seeds, transplants, any amendments that make you happy, clear your space, and go for it! Poke bean seeds in at the base of finishing peas, tomatoes, artichokes from transplants, corn, New Zealand spinach, cucumbers, summer and winter squash! [Pilgrim Terrace gardeners, those of you in the lottery section [...]