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Strawberry Tips for Tasty Super Berries!

Posted in Amendments, Antioxidant, Bat - Seabird Guano, Birds, Community Gardens, Disease, Fertilzer, Fish - Kelp, Manure, Nutrition Specifics, Pests, Seeds, SeedSaving, Skunks, Snails & Slugs, Strawberries, Veggies!, Watering, tagged 0-10-10, 200, abundant, alpine, Angular, antioxidant, Barker, barrier, bee, berry, bird, black, blight, bloom, blueberries, bread, Bright, bug, bunnies, cake, California, cat-faced, certified, Chandler, cheese, cheesecake, chewed, chicken, chocolate, chocolatier, circulation, climate, close, cloudy, cluster, cold, commercial, common, community, cones, cool, cosmetic, cream, critter, cucumber, daughter, David, Davis, day neutral, daybreak, debris, dipped, disease, distant, dry, early, earth, emulsion, everbearer, fall, family, feed, fertilizer, fiber, fish, flat, flight, flower, forage, fruit, fungicide, fungus, garden, growth, grub, guano, hands, harvest, height, hive, hole, hot, humidity, hungry, ice cream, inside, Integrated Pest Management, IPM, irregular, July, June, kelp, large, leaf, Leaf Spot, leaves, lemonade, local, Lygus Hesperus, mammoth, manganese, manure, misshapen, mulch, multiple, Muskmelon, N, NCSU, net, Nitrogen, noon, November, Nursery, nutrition, October, open, order, Oso Grande, out, overwater, peck, perimeter, phosphorus, pie, Pilgrim Terrace, pine needle, plastic, plump, pollination, pollinator, possum, potassium, produce, pumpkin, raccoon, Rebecca, Red, reliable, relocate, remove, resistant, root, rose, runner, sauce, saving, seabird, Seascape, seeds, set, shade, shake, shape, shortcake, silvery, skunk, slime, slug, sluggo, small, snail, SoCal, Soil, Southern, split, spot, spray, spread, spring, spring bearer, squash, state, storms, strawberries, sun, sunday, super, Syrah, Tarnished, tasty, temp, thrive, tip, tips, traditional, trail, trellis, UC, under, uproot, uptake, US, USDA, variety, vegetable, Vitamin C, warm, wash, water, watermelon, weather, weight, well-drained, western, whipped, wind, wire, worm, yellow, yield, yoghurt on June 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Strawberries are in the Rose family. The average berry has 200 seeds, the only fruit whose seeds are on its exterior surface! The seeds are really the fruit! Usually grown from runner daughters, they will grow from seed. Just throw down caps you bit the berry from. Sooner or later, you will have a plant [...]

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August Watering, Winter Weather, Tomatoes, Skunks!

Posted in Fungus, Fusarium Wilt, Mildew, Pests, Skunks, Tomato, Verticillium Wilt, tagged almanac, August, basin, bean, brown, California, capture, chard, chop, coastal, corn, cucumber, cures, date, Davis, disease, drop, eggplant, farmers, fungus, fusarium, glooms, holes, Integrated, IPM, June, kale, layer, leafy, lettuce, management, marine, mildew, moist, mulch, onion, overcast, pest, planting, producing, questions, rebuild, rid, root, salt, skunk, Southern, spots, strawberry, summer, surface, tomato, UC, verticillium, water, weather, wilt, winter, zucchini on August 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

AUGUST is WATER SPECIFIC month! The Southern California coastal ‘June Glooms’ may continue, or alternate with hot days in August. That calls for your attention; there just isn’t a routine, so water with passion! Feel how your veggie must be feeling! Thirsty plants need their water to continue to grow and produce. Most plants need consistent [...]

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PEST OF THE MONTH – SKUNK!

Posted in Pests, Skunks, tagged ammonia, balance, bee, bird, Care, carrion, Cayenne, community, deterrant, digging, dug, earthworm, egg, frog, garden, honeybee, Humane Society, insect, lizard, moth balls, natural, nature, Network, night, overnight, pepper, pest, pilgrim, poison, prevention, remedy, rodent, seasonal, Shake Away, skunk, snake, solution, spider, spots, terrace, trap, trapping, Wildlife, worms on June 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Have you noticed dug up spots? Have areas of your yard or garden been dug up night after night? Did you know?! Skunks are excellent at rodent (mice, moles, rats) and insect control. Their omnivorous diet includes black widow spiders and scorpions, SNAILS & SLUGS, lizards, frogs, snakes, eggs and some plant materials, pet food. But they eat [...]

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