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 [...]
Archive for the ‘Home Remedies’ Category
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 »
Keeping Your Veggie Garden Happy – Foliar Plant Care!
Posted in Amendments, Baking Soda, Bean, Community Gardens, Compost, Cucumber, Disease, Eggplant, Epsom Salt, Fertilizer - Sidedressing, Foliar Feeding, Fertilzer, Fish - Kelp, Germinate, Green Beans, Home Remedies, Legumes - Peas, Beans, Fava, Manure, Melon, Mildew, Nonfat Powdered Milk, NPK - Nitrogen Phosphorus Potassium, Peas, Pepper, Potato, Pumpkins, Seeds, Squash, Summer Plants - Warm Season, Teas- Compost, Manure, Worm, Time of Year, Tomato, Veggies!, Watermelon, Worm Castings, tagged 18 Karat Gold, alkaline, Ambassador, amino, ATTRA, baking, bean, bicarbonate, Care, casting, caution, cell, chlorophyll, compost, cucumber, cucurbit, disease, dish, Diva, Dramm, eggplant, emulsion, enzyme, epsom, eyes, fertilizer, fish, foliar, fruit, fungal spore, fungicide, garden, germicide, germination, Gladiator, growth, healthy, humid, immune, inhibit, insecticidal, kelp, leaf, leaf blight, liquid, magnesium, manure, milk, mite, Nitrogen, nonfat, nontoxic, nuts, oil, pepper, pest, pesticide, phosphorus, phytotoxic, Plant, pm, powdered, powdery mildew, prevention, protein, psyllid, pumpkin, rose, rot, rust, salad, salt, seed, skin, soap, soda, sodium, solanaceae, spray, squash, Success, sulfate, sulfur, summer, Sunglo zucchini, Sunray, surfactant, tea, thrips, tomatillo, tomato, uptake, veggie, Vitamin, Wildcat, worm, yellow on June 24, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Foliar plant care is so easy! Use a Dramm Can, the Perfect Foliar Machine! Worm Castings, Compost, Manure Tea, Fish Emulsion/Kelp for FEEDING – All in ONE! You can easily make this tea! A handful of castings, a handful to a cup of compost, handful of manure, stir and let them soak overnight in a [...]
Healthy Summer Feeding, Watering, Disease & Pest Prevention!
Posted in Amendments, Aphids, Arugula, Baking Soda, Bat - Seabird Guano, Bean, Beets, Beneficials, Broccoli, Carrot, Chard, Cilantro, Community Gardens, Cucumber, Cucumber Beetle, Cultural Control, Disease, Eggplant, Epsom Salt, Fava, Fertilizer - Sidedressing, Foliar Feeding, Green Beans, Kale, Lettuce, Melon, Mildew, Nonfat Powdered Milk, NPK - Nitrogen Phosphorus Potassium, Parsley, Pepper, Pests, Pollinator, Snails & Slugs, Strawberries, Tomato, Veggies!, Watering, White Fly, tagged allysum, ants, aphid, application, arugula, baking soda, balance, bat, beans, bee, beetle, beets, beneficial, biodiversity, black, blast, block, bloom, blue, borage, broccoli, bug, bulk, burned, carrot, chard, cilantro, crop, cuc, cucumber, deep, disease, down, drench, drown, edible, eggplant, epsom, fava, feed, fertilizer, flies, flood, flower, fly, foliar, fruit, fungi, gopher, gray, green, grow, guano, gurgler, habitat, hands, harvest, head, healthy, heat, hose, hot, hover, hungry, immune, infested, insect, island seed & feed, kale, lacewing, ladybird, leaf, leafminers, lettuce, may, melon, midday, mildew, milk, month, mustard, N, Nitrogen, nonfat, orange, organism, overhead, oxygen, P, package, parsley, pepper, pest, phosphorus, Plant, pocket, pollinator, powdered, prevention, roses, row, salad, salts, seabird, seed, shield, shut, side shoot, slug, sluggo, snail, Soil, solanaceae, spot, spray, spread, star, strawberries, strawberry, summer, surface, sweet, system, timer, tomato, transplant, trap, underneath, veggies, wash, water, weed, week, white, wilt, young, zucchini, zuch on May 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Feeding. It’s heating up, your plants are growing fast, they’re hungry and need more water! Give your leaf crops like lettuce lots of Nitrogen. Don’t overfeed beans, strawberries or tomatoes or you will get lots of leaf, no crop! If you do, did, give your plants some seabird guano (bat guano is too hot sometimes). Fertilizers [...]
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. [...]
Getting Your Summer Garden off to a Vibrant Start and Keeping it Vibrant!
Posted in Bat - Seabird Guano, Blood Meal, Bone Meal, Chard, Compost, Disease, Eggplant, Epsom Salt, Fertilizer - Sidedressing, Foliar Feeding, Fertilzer, Fish - Kelp, Lettuce, Manure, Mycorrhizae, Nonfat Powdered Milk, NPK - Nitrogen Phosphorus Potassium, Pepper, Pests, Potato, Seeds, Soil, Summer Plants - Warm Season, Tomato, Worm Castings, tagged abundant, acid, bat, bigger, bloodmeal, bloom, blossom, bone meal, calcium, casting, chicken, copost, decompose, deodorized, disease, drench, earth, eggplant, end, epsom, Epsom Salt, farmer, fertilizer, filaments, fish, flower, foliar, fruit, fungi, garden, germicide, gold, granules, growth, guano, hole, hormone, humic, hydrolyzed, immune, island seed & feed, keep, kelp, lettuce, magnesium sulfate, manure, maxicrop, milk, mulch, mycelium, mycorrhizal, N, Nitrogen, nonfat, NPK, nutrient, pathogen, pepper, pest, Phosphorous, Plant, potato, powder, powdered, predators, productive, root, rot, Rumi, salt, seabird, set, shock, sidedress, Soil, solanaceae, spray, start, steer, stinky, summer, suppression, system, thicker, tomatillo, tomato, transplant, uptake, vibrant, walled, water, weed, wise, worm on March 5, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
To start, especially tomatoes, 4 things! First, throw a big handful of bone meal in your planting hole and mix it in with your soil. Bone meal is high in Phosphorous (for blooming) and takes 6 to 8 weeks before it starts working – perfect timing! It is also high in calcium, which helps prevent blossom [...]
Rainy Day Tips! Before, During, After!
Posted in Baking Soda, Broccoli, Cauliflower, Fertilizer - Sidedressing, Foliar Feeding, Lettuce, Mildew, Nonfat Powdered Milk, Peas, Raised Beds, Seeds, Snails & Slugs, Strawberries, Watering, tagged after, air, anticipate, arm-chair, baking, bed, before, book, broccoli, cauliflower, circulation, clean, close, compost, container, crunchy, Day, disease, drainage, drench, dry, during, environment, erode, fast, fertilize, foliage, garden, ground, growth, harvest, lettuce, magazine, manure, mature, micro, mildew, milk, mix, mud, mulch, nonfat, overhead, Peas, Plant, potting, powdered, prevention, prune, quick, rain, rainwater, rainy, raise, resistant, secure, seed, shovel, slug, sluggo, snail, soda, Soil, soilless, space, spatter, splash, stake, strawberries, tall, thin, tie, tips, topple, trellis, warm, water, web, weight, wind, worm on December 18, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Rainy Day Harvesting! Anticipate! Fertilize before a rain so the fertilizer will soak in. Take the cover off your compost to let it get wet. Tie or stake plants that may topple from wind or weight. Set up to harvest rainwater for later use! Make raised beds, mounds, to help with drainage issues. Mulch to keep [...]
-
Read me at Santa Barbara View!
Farmers’ Almanac BEST PLANTING DAYS!
Gardening Tips!
- All Season Plants
- Amendments
- Antioxidant
- Ants
- Aphids
- Artichoke
- Arugula
- Asparagus
- Aspirin
- Baking Soda
- Basil
- Bat – Seabird Guano
- Bean
- Beets
- Beneficials
- Biodiversity
- Biofumigation
- Birds
- Blood Meal
- Bolt Resistant/Slow Bolting
- Bone Meal
- Brassicas
- Broccoflower
- Broccoli
- Brussel Sprouts
- Bunch onions
- Cabbage
- Carrot
- Cauliflower
- Celery
- Chard
- Cilantro
- Coffee Grounds
- Collards
- Community Gardens
- Companion Plant
- Compost
- Container Gardening
- Corn
- Cucumber
- Cucumber Beetle
- Cultural Control
- Design – Layout
- Determinate
- Disease
- Disease Resistant
- Early Blight
- Edible Flowers
- Eggplant
- Epsom Salt
- Event!
- Fava
- Fertilizer – Sidedressing, Foliar Feeding
- Fertilzer
- Fish – Kelp
- Flea Beetles
- Floating Row Covers
- Frost tolerant
- Frost, Freeze
- Fungus
- Fusarium Wilt
- Garlic
- Germinate
- Go Vertical!
- Gophers
- Green Beans
- Greenhouse
- Greens
- Guild
- Harvest
- Heat Tolerant
- Heirloom
- Herbs – Culinary, Medicinal Food Magic!
- Home Remedies
- Horseradish
- Hybrid
- Hydrozone
- Indeterminate
- Innoculants
- Inoculate
- Interplant
- Jicama
- Kale
- Kohlrabi
- Lasagna Gardening – Food Not Lawns
- Late Blight
- Layering
- Leafminer
- Leeks
- Legumes – Peas, Beans, Fava
- Lettuce
- Manure
- Melon
- Mice – Rats
- Mildew
- Moon Planting
- Mulch
- Mycorrhizae
- Nematode
- Nitrogen
- No-dig
- Nonfat Powdered Milk
- NPK – Nitrogen Phosphorus Potassium
- Nutrition Specifics
- Okra
- Onion
- Parsley
- Parsnip
- Peas
- Pepper
- Permaculture
- Pests
- Pollinator
- Potato
- PreSoak, PreSprout
- Pruning
- Pumpkins
- Purslane
- Radish
- Rain
- Raised Beds
- Raspberry
- Recipes
- Rhubarb
- Seed Balls
- Seeds
- Seeds – Planting
- SeedSaving
- Sheet composting
- Skunks
- Snails & Slugs
- Soil
- Solarization
- Squash
- Stacking
- Straw Bale
- Strawberries
- Succession
- Summer
- Summer Plants – Warm Season
- Sunflower
- Teas- Compost, Manure, Worm
- Time of Year
- Tomato
- Tools
- Turnip
- Varieties
- Veggies!
- Verticillium Wilt
- VFN
- Watering
- Watermelon
- Weather
- White Fly
- Winter Plants – Cool Season
- Worm Castings
- Yam
- Zucchini
Planting at the Right Time!
- June 2012
- May 2012
- April 2012
- March 2012
- February 2012
- January 2012
- December 2011
- November 2011
- October 2011
- September 2011
- August 2011
- July 2011
- June 2011
- May 2011
- April 2011
- March 2011
- February 2011
- January 2011
- December 2010
- November 2010
- October 2010
- September 2010
- August 2010
- July 2010
- June 2010
- May 2010
- April 2010
- March 2010
- February 2010
