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Divine December, Winter’s June here in SoCal!

Posted in Amendments, Aphids, Artichoke, Arugula, Asparagus, Basil, Beets, Brassicas, Broccoli, Brussel Sprouts, Bunch onions, Cabbage, Carrot, Cauliflower, Celery, Chard, Cilantro, Collards, Fava, Fertilizer - Sidedressing, Foliar Feeding, Frost, Freeze, Garlic, Gophers, Kale, Kohlrabi, Leafminer, Lettuce, Peas, Pepper, Potato, PreSoak, PreSprout, Radish, Seeds, Snails & Slugs, Strawberries, Tomato, Turnip, Veggies!, Weather, White Fly, Winter Plants - Cool Season, tagged aphid, artichoke, arugula, August, baking soda, barrier, basil, basket, beet, Bob Anderson, Brassica, broc, broccoli, bunch onion, cabbage, carrot, catalog, cauliflower, celery, Cerena, chard, Charles Dawson Shanly, clove, collard, Dec 21, December, everbearer, Farmers Almanac, fava, fertilizer, fish, foliar, freeze, frost, garden, garlic, gift, gopher, harvest, Holiday, island seed & feed, June, kale, kelp, kohlrabi, leafminer, leaves, legume, lettuce, manure, mesclun, Nitrogen, organic, Peas, pepper, pest, Plant, potato, powdered, radish, rubbing alcohol, seed, September, sidedressing, Silversmith, skin, slug, snail, soak, SoCal, Soil, spring, sprout, strawberry, successive, sustainable, tea, tomato, transplant, trap, turnip, veggies, water, weather, white flies, winter, Winter Solstice, wire, yellow on December 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Happy Winter Solstice/Yule, Dec 21st! I like this saying I found at the Old Farmers Almanac: Old Frost, the Silversmith has come: His crisping touch is on the weeds. – Charles Dawson Shanly And, bless him, his touch will soon be on our veggies! Some will love it; kales are said to taste better after [...]

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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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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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PESTS! Flea & Cucumber Beetles – Gophers

Posted in Community Gardens, Cucumber Beetle, Flea Beetles, Gophers, Pests, tagged arugula, barrier, basket, beans, bed, beetle, box, Brassicas, chili, corn, cucumber, eggplant, flea, garlic, gopher, home, organic, peppers, pest, pinholes, poison, potato, raised, remedy, solution, squash, sweet, tomato, trap, wire, zucchini on June 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Small Bites, Big Problems! May/June PESTS! Flea Beetles! For the first time, I got down close to my poor perforated eggplants, lifted the leaves, and, ugh, there they were, flea beetles! The ones I saw are tiny, about one-sixteenth of an inch, shiny black beetles with enlarged hind legs that enable them to jump like [...]

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Divine December, Winter’s June here in SoCal!

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

February! SOIL & SEED Month!

September, Last Tasty Summer Harvests; Time for Brassicas, Celery & Peas

PESTS! Flea & Cucumber Beetles – Gophers

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Farmers’ Almanac BEST PLANTING DAYS!

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