Give your plants a chance! Not too much N (Nitrogen) It imbalances your plants, just like too much sugar for us. You get lots of leaf, no fruit, growth is too fast and ‘soft,’ inviting to pests and diseases. Watering practices make a difference. Overhead watering is not good for most plants, but especially not for [...]
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Give your plants a chance!
Posted in Amendments, Ants, Aphids, Biodiversity, Blood Meal, Compost, Disease, Disease Resistant, Eggplant, Fertilizer - Sidedressing, Foliar Feeding, Fish - Kelp, Heirloom, Hybrid, Manure, Mildew, Pests, Snails & Slugs, Soil, Time of Year, Tomato, Varieties, Watering, White Fly, Worm Castings, tagged amend, ants, aphids, balance, basin, beneficial, biodiversity, blood meal, bloom, cold, compost, day length, disease, drainage, drip, eggplant, fish emulsion, furrow, garden, germination, hot, insects, manure, mildew, N, Nitrogen, organic, organisms, overhead, patch, pest, plants, possums, production, raccons, raised bed, row, season, sidedressing, skunks, slugs, snails, Soil, temp, tolerant, tomatoes, variety, veggies, virus, water, weather, weeds, whiteflies, worm castings on February 17, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
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 [...]
Broccoli! Beautiful and valuable to your health!
Posted in Antioxidant, Aphids, Blood Meal, Brassicas, Broccoli, Cabbage, Cauliflower, Cilantro, Community Gardens, Companion Plant, Compost, Fertilizer - Sidedressing, Foliar Feeding, Fertilzer, Fish - Kelp, Heat Tolerant, Lettuce, Manure, Mycorrhizae, Nutrition Specifics, Pests, Seeds, SeedSaving, Soil, Teas- Compost, Manure, Worm, Varieties, Veggies!, Watering, Winter Plants - Cool Season, tagged 35, A, ACS, AK, Alaska, American Cancer Society, anthocyanins, anticancer, antioxidant, aphid, apples, blindness, blood meal, bolt, brain, Brassica, broccoli, bud, cabbage, Cabbage Moth, Calabrese, calcium, cancer, cauliflower, Center, cilantro, clubroot, cold, cole, companion, compounds, confuse, cool, cross, Cruiser, days, DeCicco, disease, dry, enegy, ethylene, eyes, fertilizer, fish emulsion, flavor, flower, foliage, fruits, garden, gas, genus, glutamine, Green Comet, Green Goliath, ground, harvest, head, health, heat, hybrid, January, John Evans, kelp, lb, leaves, lettuce, loam, macular degeneration, manure, maturity, moist, moose, mulch, mycorrhizal fungi, N, Nitrogen, Nutribud, nutritious, older, organic, pack, Packman, Palmer, pears, peppery, pH, pods, poison, pollinate, purple, rate, respiration, salad, sandy, seed, seedbed, seedling, shade, short, side shoot, sidedress, Soil, spacing, sprouts, stalk, stir fry, summer, sun, tall, tolerant, tract, transplant, University of Connecticut, urinary, valuable, variety, vegetable, vegetarian, veggie, Vitamin, Waltham 29, water, weather, weed, well-drained, winter, yellow, yield on January 14, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Broccoli may be the most nutritious of all the cole crops, which are among the most nutritious of all vegetables. Broccoli and cauliflower (and other members of the genus Brassica) contain very high levels of antioxidant and anticancer compounds. These nutrients typically are more concentrated in flower buds than in leaves, and that makes broccoli [...]
Ugh. Slugs & Snails, Aphids/White Flies, Powdery Mildew
Posted in Aphids, Baking Soda, Broccoli, Cabbage, Epsom Salt, Fungus, Home Remedies, Kale, Mildew, Nonfat Powdered Milk, Peas, Pests, Snails & Slugs, White Fly, tagged aphid, baking soda, copper, epsom, Epsom Salt, Escar-Go, fungus, habitat, home remedy, Intregrated Pest Management, IPM, mildew, milk, organic, powdery, prevent, sluggo, slugs, snails, University of California, white flies, white fly on October 8, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Slugs and Snails can eat a plant overnight, only the bare stem remaining, if that. Some good strategies are below. For important details, please see University of California, Integrated Pest Management (IPM) Snails and Slugs Remove hiding places – leave a few hiding places (traps), remove the snails that gather there Use drip irrigation to [...]
High in Antioxidants, Brassicas, the Backbone of Your Winter Garden!
Posted in Aphids, Brassicas, Broccoflower, Broccoli, Brussel Sprouts, Cabbage, Cauliflower, Celery, Collards, Fusarium Wilt, Kale, Kohlrabi, SeedSaving, Verticillium Wilt, White Fly, Winter Plants - Cool Season, tagged aphid, bolt, broccoflower, broccoli, cabbage, Calabrese, cauliflower, cold, companion, Curly, cut and come again, DeCicco, Dinosaur, disease, Elephant, F, fly, folklore, fusarium, Goliath, head, heirloom, hybrid, Irish, Italian, kale, Lacinato, leaf, maggots, Pilgrim Terrace, purple, Raab, Red, resistant, Romanesco, Russian, Saga, spiral, spring, sprout, tolerance, Vitamin A, Waltham, white, wilt, yellow, YR on September 4, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, cauliflower, collards, kales, kohlrabi! Fall Broccoli Broccoli is not only beautiful, but one of your best garden investments per square foot since it continues to produce after the main head is taken! Grow large headed varieties, sprouting varieties, Romanesco spirals, or loose leafy Raab with ‘pleasantly bitter and peppery highlights!’ Plant [...]
September, Last Tasty Summer Harvests; Time for Brassicas, Celery & Peas
Posted in Antioxidant, Aphids, Biofumigation, Bolt Resistant/Slow Bolting, Brassicas, Broccoflower, Broccoli, Brussel Sprouts, Cabbage, Cauliflower, Celery, Collards, Cultural Control, Gophers, Kale, Kohlrabi, Lettuce, Peas, Seeds, SeedSaving, White Fly, Winter Plants - Cool Season, tagged antioxidant, aphid, biofumigation, Brassicas, broccoli, Brussels Sprouts, cabbage, cauliflower, celery, collards, companion, December, glucosinolate, gopher, harvest, insecticide, journal, kale, kohlrabi, Labor Day, lettuce, natural, November, October, Peas, seed, September, transplant, white fly, winter on September 1, 2010 | 1 Comment »
The next months…so you can plan ahead! As more of your plants are finishing, make notes about your summer crops in your garden journal. September Let some plants continue to grow for seed saving! First fall planting month! Planting from seeds is fun; transplants produce sooner. Plant Sweet Peas for Christmas bloom! Plant gift plants [...]
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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
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