Seeds – Planting « Green Bean Connection

Archive for the ‘Seeds – Planting’ Category

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 [...]

Read Full Post »

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, [...]

Read Full Post »

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 [...]

Read Full Post »

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 – [...]

Read Full Post »

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 [...]

Read Full Post »

February 2010

Posted in Community Gardens, Fertilizer - Sidedressing, Foliar Feeding, Greenhouse, Pests, Seeds - Planting, Soil on February 2, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Happy New Year of the Tiger, Valentines! General PT Info | February | Soil First! | Seed Starting Basics Rainy Day Tips | Winston Smoyer Memorial Community Garden The L.A. Community Garden Council | Botany Buddies Permaculture Investing | Volunteer 40th Earth Day! Dear Pilgrim Terrace Gardeners and Garden Friends, John Cookson joins our list. [...]

Read Full Post »

Green Bean Connection

Urban Farmer Newsletter for Coastal Southern California, Santa Barbara CA, Pilgrim Terrace Community Garden

Archive for the ‘Seeds – Planting’ Category

Chard, Glorious Chard! And Leafminers.

Seed Soaking/Presprouting Tips & Ideas! Part 1

February 2011 Santa Barbara CA Area Garden Events!

February! SOIL & SEED Month!

3 Kinds of Peas & Strawberries; Onions & Garlic!

February 2010

Read me at Santa Barbara View!

Farmers’ Almanac BEST PLANTING DAYS!

Gardening Tips!

Planting at the Right Time!