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August in Your Garden!

Posted in Bat - Seabird Guano, Bean, Chard, Community Gardens, Compost, Cucumber, Epsom Salt, Fertilizer - Sidedressing, Foliar Feeding, Fish - Kelp, Harvest, Home Remedies, Lettuce, Manure, Pepper, Seeds, SeedSaving, Strawberries, Summer Plants - Warm Season, Teas- Compost, Manure, Worm, Time of Year, Varieties, Watering, Winter Plants - Cool Season, Worm Castings, tagged absorbent, abundance, aspirin, August, barrier, bat, beans, bed, blossom, bounty, chard, chop, clean up, compost, cool, cool-season, cucumber, cuke, cycle, daughter, disease, dry, Epsom Salt, fall, feed, fish emulsion, flowering, foliar, garden, gopher, ground, guano, harvest, heat, Labor Day, lettuce, manure, maturity, moist, mulch, Nov, nurseries, Oct, peppers, pest, Plant, preserve, prevention, root, runner, seabird, seed, seedlings, Sep, short, sidedressing, Soil, strawberry, summer, tomato, Varieties, veggies, water, winter, wire, worm casting on July 30, 2011 | 2 Comments »

The Next Three Months…. August is keeping your soil water absorbent, sidedressing, harvesting, plant a last round of summer favorites, start cool-season seedlings, time to preserve your abundance for winter eating, to take stock and make notes for next year’s summer planting! September is exciting because it is the first month to plant fall veggies! Do [...]

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HARVEST, the Return on Your Garden Sweat Equity!

Posted in All Season Plants, Bean, Beets, Broccoli, Community Gardens, Corn, Cucumber, Disease, Eggplant, Harvest, Lettuce, Melon, Pepper, Pests, Radish, Seeds, SeedSaving, Squash, Tomato, Veggies!, Watering, Watermelon, tagged abundance, all season, Aubergine, baking, basket, bean, beets, birds, blossom, bolt, brinjal, broccoli, bugs, can, cantaloupe, carrot, cob, compost, corn, crisp, crookneck, crop, cucumber, cuke, damage, dill, disease, dry, eggplant, elders, farm, Foodbank, freeze, fresh, fridge, garden, green, growth, hairy, harvest, herbs, Hollister, husband, hybrid, India, Indira, juice, kernel, leaf, lettuce, Mahanandi, mice, Modoc, Neighborhood Food Exchange, organic, overripe, pepper, pest, pickle, pickling, Pilgrim Terrace, pod, Portesuello, preserve, pull, radish, recipe, Red, refrigerate, salad, Santa Barbara, seed, seedy, share, shiny, shouldersoil, side shoot, silk, slip, small, spade fork, split, squash, starch, steam, stew, stuffing, summer, sweat equity, temple, tender, tendril, thump, tomatoes, traditional, veggies, Vijay, water, watermelon, white, wilt, winter, zucchini, zuch on July 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Yummerlicous basket of summer veggies grown near Mahanandi, a peaceful temple town in India. Indira and her Husband Vijay share the traditional recipes of their families. Brinjals, btw, are eggplants! Each of your plants has special harvest needs and techniques to get continuing excellent returns! Be gentle in closely planted areas. Leaf damage opens your plant to diseases [...]

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10 Easy Steps to Make RICH COMPOST for Fall Planting!

Posted in Amendments, Bat - Seabird Guano, Blood Meal, Community Gardens, Compost, Fertilizer - Sidedressing, Foliar Feeding, Fish - Kelp, Harvest, Innoculants, Lasagna Gardening - Food Not Lawns, Manure, Mulch, Soil, Teas- Compost, Manure, Worm, Time of Year, Winter Plants - Cool Season, Worm Castings, tagged alchemy, alfalfa, bat, beneficial, black smell, blood, brown, bulk, cardboard, cast, chicken, chocolate, coffee, cold, compost, cover, Craigs list, decompose, disesase, dry, earthworm, easy, eggshell, emulsion, enclosure, fall, fast, feeder, fish, foliar, garbage, garden, Ghiradelli, grass, green, guano, harvest, homemade, horse, hot, insect, island seed & feed, kitchen, lasagna, lawn, layer, leaves, manure, meal, mesh, micro, moist, mulch, N, nature, newspaper, Nitrogen, nutrient, Oct, organic, organism, oxygenate, pallet, pest, Plant, plastic, PVC, Red, seed, Sep, Soil, steer, straw, summer, surface, tea, trench, twigs, Val Webb, veggies, vermicompost, warm, waste, weather, wet, winter, wire, worm, worm casting, wriggler, yarrow, yellow on July 6, 2011 | 2 Comments »

I love Val Webb’s image and she and I both love COMPOST! She says: There’s an irresistible alchemy involved when you can start with garbage and end up with a wildly nutrient-rich substance that has been likened to Ghirardelli chocolate for earthworms. Composting is EASY! Start Now! The weather is warm, so your compost will happen [...]

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July, August, September and October Garden Timing! Tomato-Hot Juicy July!

Posted in Amendments, Bat - Seabird Guano, Bean, Blood Meal, Chard, Community Gardens, Compost, Cucumber, Epsom Salt, Fertilizer - Sidedressing, Foliar Feeding, Fertilzer, Fish - Kelp, Gophers, Green Beans, Harvest, Lettuce, Manure, Mulch, Pests, Raised Beds, Seeds, Soil, Strawberries, Summer Plants - Warm Season, Teas- Compost, Manure, Worm, Tomato, Veggies!, Watering, Worm Castings, tagged Aug, August, Australia, bat, bean, blood meal, blossom, chard, chemical, chop, clean, compost, cool, crop, cucumber, cuke, cycle, daily, daughters, decomposition, depression, disease, dopamine, environmental, epidemic, Epsom salts, fall, feed, fish emulsion, foliar, garden, gardener, global, gopher, guano, harvest, heat, hot, immune, International, juicy, July, Labor Day, lettuce, Linda Buzzell-Saltzman, manure, mental health, mulch, natural, next, Nitrogen, Nov, November, Oct, October, Organic Garden Club, peppers, permaculturist, pest, pioneer, Plant, prep, preserve, producing, raised bed, research, Robyn Francis, root, runners, seabird, season, seed, seedling, Sep, September, serotonin, sidedress, smile, Soil, strawberry, summer, system, tea, timing, tomato, trigger, Varieties, veggies, water, wild, winter, wire barrier, worm casting, year, yellow on June 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

July is not so much a planting month as water, sidedressing, harvest, and making compost – soil prep for September & October fall plantings! Get seeds! August is keeping your soil water absorbent, sidedressing, harvesting, plant a last round of summer favorites, start cool-season seedlings, time to preserve your abundance for winter eating, to take stock and [...]

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February! SOIL & SEED Month!

Posted in Aphids, Artichoke, Asparagus, Beets, Brassicas, Broccoli, Cabbage, Carrot, Cauliflower, Celery, Chard, Community Gardens, Compost, Container Gardening, Fertilizer - Sidedressing, Foliar Feeding, Frost, Freeze, Germinate, Gophers, Harvest, Kale, Kohlrabi, Lasagna Gardening - Food Not Lawns, Lettuce, No-dig, Peas, Pests, Potato, PreSoak, PreSprout, Raised Beds, Seeds, Seeds - Planting, Snails & Slugs, Soil, Veggies!, White Fly, Winter Plants - Cool Season, tagged absorption, acidic, activate, aerate, aesthetic, amendment, aphid, artichoke, asparagus, back, bare-root, bark dust, beet, branches, break, breathing, broccoli, brown, buckwheat, build, cabbage, carbon, cardboard, carrots, cauliflower, celery, chard, chop, clippings, clover, clump, coarse, coffee filter, community, compost, concrete, conifer, container, crop, damage, decompose, dig, disease, down, drainage, dried, dry, egg shells, enzyme, fast, favorite, February, fertilize, fine, fluffy, food scraps, frost, fungi, Gaia's Garden, garden, gopher, grass, green, harvest, hay, heat, Hemenway, inoculate, January, kale, kohlrabi, lasagna, last, lawn, layer, leafy, leaves, lettuce, living, manure, March, materials, maturity, microbe, mildew, minerals, month, mulch, mycorrhizal, needles, Nitrogen, no-did, no-turn, organisms, oxygen, paper bag, path, Patricia Lanza, Peas, peat moss, peels, pile, Pilgrim Terrace, pine, Plant, potatoes, protien, prune, radish, raised bed, Red, resistant, rich, roof, root, round, sawdust, seaweed, seed, sheed, shredded, sidedress, slow, slug, snail, Soil, speed, spray, sprinkle, stems, stinky, straw, strawberries, structure, summer, thin, traditional, turning, turnips, twigs, variety, vegetable, veggie, water, weeds, wheatgrass, white flies, winter, wire, wood, wood ash, worms, wriggler, yarrow, zucchini on February 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Please see February 2010 for tips on aphids/white flies, slugs/snails, gophers, soil, seed starting basics! When there are warm days, it is ever so tempting to plant up summer veggies! Don’t do it. Not yet. Start seeds. Depending on how much space you have, plant a last round of your very favorite winter crops – [...]

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August in Your Garden!

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July, August, September and October Garden Timing! Tomato-Hot Juicy July!

February! SOIL & SEED Month!

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