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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 »

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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Successful Seed Varieties for Sep/Oct Planting!

Posted in Broccoli, Chard, Disease, Disease Resistant, Fusarium Wilt, Heat Tolerant, Hybrid, Mildew, Peas, Seeds, Time of Year, Varieties, VFN, Winter Plants - Cool Season, tagged AAS, All America Selection, all season, antioxidant, August, Bright Lights, broccoli, Calabrese, chard, China, Chinese, cold, cool, Cruiser, cut and come again, DeCicco, disease, dry, Dwart Grey Sugar, early, English, F, F1 Hybrid, fall, flat, Fordhook, frost, fusarium, garden, Giant, Green Comet, Green Goliath, harvest, Harvest Wizard, head, heat tolerant, heirloom, high yield, Italian, Mammoth Melting, mature, Neon, nutritious, Oct, Packman, Peas, Plant, pm, pod, powdery mildew, produce, recipe, resistance, resistant, salad, seed, Sep, shelling, side shoot, sideshoot, snack, snap, snow, spring, sprout, sugar, Sugar Ann, Sugar Daddy, Sugar Rae, Sugar Snap, summer, Sweet Snap, tolerant, variety, Waltham 29, weather, winter on July 22, 2011 | 1 Comment »

Select the best varieties of these 3 popular winter plants – Chard, Broccoli, Peas! Be gathering up your seeds now, start them mid August! Your transplants will go in the ground late September or October. 1) Chard is a super producer per square foot, also highly nutritious, and low, low calorie! Select early maturing varieties for eating [...]

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Pumpkins & DollarWise, from Grocery to Garden!

Posted in Bean, Cabbage, Carrot, Celery, Cucumber, Eggplant, Event!, Garlic, Green Beans, Heirloom, Hybrid, Nematode, Onion, Peas, Pepper, Potato, Pumpkins, Seeds, Squash, Tomato, Veggies!, Watermelon, Yam, tagged 90%, anise, bargain, bean, bite, bulb, cabbage, carrot, celery, clove, colonial, cost, crust, cucumber, dollarwise, edible, effective, eggplant, farmers market, filling, flower, freckles, garden, garlic, ginger, Greek, green, greens, grocery, Halloween, heirloom, horseradish, hybrid, Lane Farms, largest, local, medicine, melon, Native Americans, nematode, onion, organic, Pat Veretto, peanuts, Peas, pepon, pepper, pie, pod, popcorn, potassium, pumpkin, radiation, roadside, roasted, root, season, seed, sesame, set, snack, snake, Soil, spice, spring, sprout, squash, stand, tomatoe, tuber, untreated, vegetable, Vitamin A, water, watermelon, wheat berries, word, yam on October 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Fat Pumpkins & Fun Hay Rides, Lane Farms, Goleta CA Happy Halloween! Pumpkins were once recommended for removing freckles and curing snake bites! Pumpkin flowers are edible. Pumpkins are 90% water. Pumpkins are used for feed for animals. Pumpkin seeds can be roasted as a snack. Native Americans used pumpkin seeds for food and medicine. [...]

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