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FEBRUARY is Seedling Month! Clean-up, Maintenance, More Plan than Plant!

Posted in Artichoke, Asparagus, Aspirin, Baking Soda, Community Gardens, Determinate, Disease Resistant, Fertilizer - Sidedressing, Foliar Feeding, Fertilzer, Floating Row Covers, Germinate, Greenhouse, Heat Tolerant, Heirloom, Home Remedies, Indeterminate, Lettuce, Manure, Mildew, Nonfat Powdered Milk, PreSoak, PreSprout, Seeds, SeedSaving, Tomato, Varieties, Veggies!, Winter Plants - Cool Season, tagged All America Selections, artichoke, asparagus, aspirin, baking soda, bare-root, beets, bolt, brocs, bush, cabbages, canning, cauliflower, celery, chard, clean up, coast, community garden, cycle, disease, divide, February, foliar, fungicide, garden, garlic, germicide, germination, Greenhouse, grow light, growth, hardening, harvest, heat, heirloom, horse, humus, hybrid, immune system, kale, kohlrabi, lettuce, maintenance, manure, March, Mediterranean, mildew, moisture, Peas, peat, pest, pole, potatoes, potting soil, powdered milk, presprout, pruning, radish, rain, resistant, root, seed, seed soaking, seed-saving, seedling, sidedress, snail, Society, Soil, space, spinach, steer, summer, table eating, tolerant, turnips, Varieties, vegetable, veggies, winter on January 26, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

This is your last chance to plant more rounds of winter veggies you love the most, and the littles that grow year round. Peas are especially heat sensitive, but we Coastie pea lovers can get one more round! At this time be sure they are mildew resistant varieties! But it’s really time to think in [...]

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Chard, Glorious Chard! And Leafminers.

Posted in Amendments, Biodiversity, Celery, Chard, Compost, Design - Layout, Eggplant, Frost tolerant, Germinate, Kale, Leafminer, Manure, Pests, Recipes, Seeds, Seeds - Planting, SeedSaving, Snails & Slugs, Soil, Veggies!, tagged 55, apples, April, baby, beets, biodiverse, bouquet, Bright Lights, brown, celery, chard, clime, cluster, compost, Cooperative, Cornell, crop, crow, curly leaf, cut & come again, days, eggplant, eggs, ethylene, Extension, feeze, flies, footprint, Fordhook, frost, garden, garden tool, generation, germination, giveaway, green, habitat, harvest, herb, Illinois, kale, larva, lasagna, leafminers, life cycle, low calorie, manure, matue, may, micro greens, midrib, Neon, orange, overwinter, perennial, pink, prodigious, producer, prolific, Red, rhubarb, row, salad, sandy loam, sauteed, seed, slug, sluggo, snail, SoCal, Soil, sow, spinach, spring, stew, stir fry, straw, sun, Swiss, thin, tolerates, trade, Vitamin, water, white, women, worm casting, year, yellow, zucchini on September 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Chard is the bouquet of the Garden! Whether it is all green, a white stemmed Fordhook Giant, or Bright Lights/Neon from white to neon pink, bright oranges and reds, brilliant yellow, it is glorious! And it’s not just another pretty face, it’s a prodigious producer, Cut-&-Come-Again, and again, and again! In our SoCal clime, it acts [...]

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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 [...]

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Seed Soaking/Presprouting Tips & Ideas! Part 1

Posted in Bean, Beets, Celery, Chard, Community Gardens, Corn, Cucumber, Eggplant, Germinate, Lettuce, Melon, Okra, Pepper, PreSoak, PreSprout, Pumpkins, Seeds, Seeds - Planting, Squash, Tomato, Veggies!, tagged bean, beet, Bilberback, bleach, book, cabbage, cell, chamomile, chard, coast, coat, cold, compost, corn, country, crop, cucs, cucumber, cucurbita, damage, date, Diane, disease, Dorothy, drain, eggplant, emerge, fruit, fungi, Garden Secrets, germinate, gourd, Greenhouse, ground, Harrowsmith, heat, Hinshaw, hot, hydrate, hydrogen peroxide, imbibitional, inhibit, injury, jalapenos, kelp, label, legume, lettuce, life, light, lima, loosen, lover, luffa, manure, marine layer, melon, membrane, mist, moisture, moisturization, name, nutrient, okra, overnight, oversoak, oxygen, package, paper, Patent, pepper, Pilgrim Terrace, presoak, presprout, protect, pumpkin, rapid, rinse, room, root, scar, scarify, Scarlet Runner, seed, seedling, shock, skin, soak, soaking, SoCal, solution, spray, sprout, squash, submerge, tea, temperature, tepid, time, tip, tomato, towel, uptake, vegetable, vermiculite, viable, water, weather, wet, worm on February 25, 2011 | 8 Comments »

Now IS still a good time to start your seeds, especially your true heat lovers – eggplant, limas, melons, okra, peppers and pumpkins, and for you SoCal coastal marine layer gardeners, tomatoes! When you start them, for your sanity, label your seedlings with their name and date! Hmph. How hard could it be, soaking seeds?! It isn’t, [...]

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Seed Soaking/Presprouting Tips & Ideas Part 2

Posted in Asparagus, Cabbage, Carrot, Celery, Cilantro, Community Gardens, Corn, Germinate, Lettuce, Onion, Parsley, Parsnip, Peas, PreSoak, PreSprout, Rain, Seeds, Squash, Veggies!, Watering, Weather, tagged absorption, agent, asparagus, cabbage, Carl Wilson, carrot, celery, cilantro, cling, clipper, coat, Cooperative Extension, coriander, corn, cover, Denver, dry, fennel, forecast, furrow, gel, germination, horticulture, hot, humus, lattice, lettuce, mist, moist, onion, paper, parsley, pea, planting, pre-germinate, presoak, presprout, sandpaper, scarify, seed, seed tape, seedling, shade cloth, shell, slice, small, solution, sow, squash, squeeze, surface, technique, towel, viable, water, weather, wet on February 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Have you already seen Part 1? Why soak or presprout, all about seeds, how seed coats function; soaking times, seed soaking solutions. Scarify Seeds Scarify pea seeds to speed up absorption of water, and therefore, germination. Rub them between sheets of coarse sandpaper, or clip them with a nail clipper by making a slice through the seed [...]

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February 2011 Santa Barbara CA Area Garden Events!

Posted in Community Gardens, Compost, Container Gardening, Fava, Germinate, Jicama, Legumes - Peas, Beans, Fava, Rain, Seed Balls, Seeds, Seeds - Planting, tagged 2011, 3rd, adobe, annual, Apr, ball, banana, barley, beans, brewery, business, CA, canning, Catfish, CEC, chicken, class, clay, Cliff, community, compost, container, downtown, earth, eatthestreet.org, ecosystem, Environmental Council, events, expo, Fairview, farmers, Farms, fava, February, Festival, flower, Foods, fruit, garden, germinate, guerilla, habitat, Harmony, Holy Cross, home, homesteading, jicama, Jim Bones, La Sumida, marble, market, Masanobu Fukuoka, Meigs, Mesa, mulch, Nursery, nut, Oscar Carmona, pitchfork, plantation, planting, Plaza de Vera Cruze, preserves, project, rain, Santa Barbara, Saturday, seed swap, series, Shepherd, shovel, Sol, Story, Tom, trees, urban, vegetables, veggies, water, wheelbarrow on February 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

The 3rd Annual Seed Swap was a great success! I found some great fava beans donated by Tom Shepherd, Shepherd Farms. I’m still looking for some jicama seeds. There were wonderful talks, was lively music, new friendships made, and, of course, seeds gathered for mighty planting! If you didn’t make it this year, be sure to [...]

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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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Archive for the ‘Germinate’ Category

FEBRUARY is Seedling Month! Clean-up, Maintenance, More Plan than Plant!

Chard, Glorious Chard! And Leafminers.

Keeping Your Veggie Garden Happy – Foliar Plant Care!

Seed Soaking/Presprouting Tips & Ideas! Part 1

Seed Soaking/Presprouting Tips & Ideas Part 2

February 2011 Santa Barbara CA Area Garden Events!

February! SOIL & SEED Month!

Read me at Santa Barbara View!

Farmers’ Almanac BEST PLANTING DAYS!

Gardening Tips!

Planting at the Right Time!