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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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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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APRIL is for Heat Lovers! Pull back your mulches, let soil heat up, PLANT!

Posted in Amendments, Arugula, Basil, Bat - Seabird Guano, Bean, Beets, Bone Meal, Carrot, Chard, Cilantro, Corn, Cucumber, Design - Layout, Determinate, Disease, Early Blight, Eggplant, Epsom Salt, Fertilizer - Sidedressing, Foliar Feeding, Fish - Kelp, Fungus, Fusarium Wilt, Green Beans, Heat Tolerant, Herbs - Culinary, Medicinal Food Magic!, Jicama, Late Blight, Legumes - Peas, Beans, Fava, Lettuce, Manure, Melon, Mycorrhizae, Nonfat Powdered Milk, Okra, Onion, Parsley, Peas, Pepper, Potato, PreSoak, PreSprout, Pumpkins, Radish, Seeds, Squash, Strawberries, Succession, Sunflower, Tomato, Turnip, Varieties, Veggies!, Verticillium Wilt, Watering, Watermelon, Worm Castings, tagged 105, 55, 75, AAS, airborne, All America Selections, April, arugula, baby, basil, bat, beans, beets, Black Seeded Simpson, blight, bloom, bolt, bone meal, bud, canner, cantaloupe, carrots, casting, chard, cilantro, coast, coat, community, compost, cool, corn, cucumber, daytime, deactivate, degree, dense, disease, drop, early, eggplant, eHow, endive, Epsom Salt, F1, feed, fish, foliar, French Breakfast, fungi, fusarium, garden, gound, grain, Green Bean Connection, green beans, greens, guano, harvest, heat, heirloom, herb, humidity, hybridize, Jericho, Jetsetter, kelp, kernal, leaves, Legend, lettuce, lover, maintenance, manure, mature, may, mesclun, milk, mow, mulch, mycorrhizal, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Zealand, night, nonfat, Nufar, Nursery, onion, Orange Blaze, oregano, overplant, parsley, Peas, pepper, Pilgrim Terrace, Plant, pollen, pollination, presoak, presprout, protein, radish, resistance, Romaine, root, rosemary, sage, Santa Barbara, seabird, seed, shade, sidedress, Sierra, silk, slicer, slo, soak, Soil, Solanacea, spinach, squash, stunt, succession, successive, sucker, summer, sunflower, Surecrop, tassel, thyme, tipburn, tolerant, tomato, transplant, turnips, variety, verticillium, VF, VFFNTA, VFN, virus, water, watermelon, wilt, winter, worm, wound on April 1, 2011 | 2 Comments »

Why not start with an AAS (All America Selections) 2011 Winner?! Pepper ‘Orange Blaze’ F1 Early ripening orange variety, very sweet flavor, multiple disease resistances! Get out last year’s garden notes if you made any, and review for varieties you liked, where you got ‘em, how much to plant! CORN! Plant in blocks, not rows, [...]

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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! 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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3 Kinds of Peas & Strawberries; Onions & Garlic!

Posted in Bolt Resistant/Slow Bolting, Disease, Eggplant, Fungus, Garlic, Go Vertical!, Inoculate, Legumes - Peas, Beans, Fava, Mildew, Onion, Peas, Pepper, Potato, PreSoak, PreSprout, Seeds, Seeds - Planting, Strawberries, Tomato, Verticillium Wilt, Winter Plants - Cool Season, tagged abundant, bare-root, bearer, bird, bolt, bulb, California, Camarosa, Chandler, Chinese, clove, commercial, Crystal Wax, day length, day neutral, eggplant, English, ever bearing, everbearing, fall, Feb, February, garden, garlic, germination, Granex, Grano, grower, inoculate, intermediate, island seed & feed, June, legume, long day, manure, Maui, Mesa Harmony, mildew, N, netting, Nitrogen, Nov, November, onion, Oso Grande, Peas, pepper, photothermoperiodic, potato, replace, resistant, Rhizobia, Seascape, Sequoia, set, shelling, short day, snap, snow, SoCal, sprout, strawberries, stringless, succession, temperature, tomato, transplant, trellis, verticillium, Vidalia, vote, winter on November 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Mesa Harmony Garden could use your VOTE! They are in line for a $10,000 award from RainBird, to install water wise systems in their 3-phase Food Forest installation! It’s an awesome project in Santa Barbara CA, turning unused land into a model garden, to produce food for the Food Bank – the highest % of [...]

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Archive for the ‘PreSoak, PreSprout’ Category

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

Divine December, Winter’s June here in SoCal!

APRIL is for Heat Lovers! Pull back your mulches, let soil heat up, PLANT!

Seed Soaking/Presprouting Tips & Ideas! Part 1

Seed Soaking/Presprouting Tips & Ideas Part 2

February! SOIL & SEED Month!

3 Kinds of Peas & Strawberries; Onions & Garlic!

Read me at Santa Barbara View!

Farmers’ Almanac BEST PLANTING DAYS!

Gardening Tips!

Planting at the Right Time!