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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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August in Your Garden!

Posted in Bat - Seabird Guano, Bean, Chard, Community Gardens, Compost, Cucumber, Epsom Salt, Fertilizer - Sidedressing, Foliar Feeding, Fish - Kelp, Harvest, Home Remedies, Lettuce, Manure, Pepper, Seeds, SeedSaving, Strawberries, Summer Plants - Warm Season, Teas- Compost, Manure, Worm, Time of Year, Varieties, Watering, Winter Plants - Cool Season, Worm Castings, tagged absorbent, abundance, aspirin, August, barrier, bat, beans, bed, blossom, bounty, chard, chop, clean up, compost, cool, cool-season, cucumber, cuke, cycle, daughter, disease, dry, Epsom Salt, fall, feed, fish emulsion, flowering, foliar, garden, gopher, ground, guano, harvest, heat, Labor Day, lettuce, manure, maturity, moist, mulch, Nov, nurseries, Oct, peppers, pest, Plant, preserve, prevention, root, runner, seabird, seed, seedlings, Sep, short, sidedressing, Soil, strawberry, summer, tomato, Varieties, veggies, water, winter, wire, worm casting on July 30, 2011 | 2 Comments »

The Next Three Months…. August is keeping your soil water absorbent, sidedressing, harvesting, plant a last round of summer favorites, start cool-season seedlings, time to preserve your abundance for winter eating, to take stock and make notes for next year’s summer planting! September is exciting because it is the first month to plant fall veggies! Do [...]

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HARVEST, the Return on Your Garden Sweat Equity!

Posted in All Season Plants, Bean, Beets, Broccoli, Community Gardens, Corn, Cucumber, Disease, Eggplant, Harvest, Lettuce, Melon, Pepper, Pests, Radish, Seeds, SeedSaving, Squash, Tomato, Veggies!, Watering, Watermelon, tagged abundance, all season, Aubergine, baking, basket, bean, beets, birds, blossom, bolt, brinjal, broccoli, bugs, can, cantaloupe, carrot, cob, compost, corn, crisp, crookneck, crop, cucumber, cuke, damage, dill, disease, dry, eggplant, elders, farm, Foodbank, freeze, fresh, fridge, garden, green, growth, hairy, harvest, herbs, Hollister, husband, hybrid, India, Indira, juice, kernel, leaf, lettuce, Mahanandi, mice, Modoc, Neighborhood Food Exchange, organic, overripe, pepper, pest, pickle, pickling, Pilgrim Terrace, pod, Portesuello, preserve, pull, radish, recipe, Red, refrigerate, salad, Santa Barbara, seed, seedy, share, shiny, shouldersoil, side shoot, silk, slip, small, spade fork, split, squash, starch, steam, stew, stuffing, summer, sweat equity, temple, tender, tendril, thump, tomatoes, traditional, veggies, Vijay, water, watermelon, white, wilt, winter, zucchini, zuch on July 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Yummerlicous basket of summer veggies grown near Mahanandi, a peaceful temple town in India. Indira and her Husband Vijay share the traditional recipes of their families. Brinjals, btw, are eggplants! Each of your plants has special harvest needs and techniques to get continuing excellent returns! Be gentle in closely planted areas. Leaf damage opens your plant to diseases [...]

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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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Broccoli! Beautiful and valuable to your health!

Posted in Antioxidant, Aphids, Blood Meal, Brassicas, Broccoli, Cabbage, Cauliflower, Cilantro, Community Gardens, Companion Plant, Compost, Fertilizer - Sidedressing, Foliar Feeding, Fertilzer, Fish - Kelp, Heat Tolerant, Lettuce, Manure, Mycorrhizae, Nutrition Specifics, Pests, Seeds, SeedSaving, Soil, Teas- Compost, Manure, Worm, Varieties, Veggies!, Watering, Winter Plants - Cool Season, tagged 35, A, ACS, AK, Alaska, American Cancer Society, anthocyanins, anticancer, antioxidant, aphid, apples, blindness, blood meal, bolt, brain, Brassica, broccoli, bud, cabbage, Cabbage Moth, Calabrese, calcium, cancer, cauliflower, Center, cilantro, clubroot, cold, cole, companion, compounds, confuse, cool, cross, Cruiser, days, DeCicco, disease, dry, enegy, ethylene, eyes, fertilizer, fish emulsion, flavor, flower, foliage, fruits, garden, gas, genus, glutamine, Green Comet, Green Goliath, ground, harvest, head, health, heat, hybrid, January, John Evans, kelp, lb, leaves, lettuce, loam, macular degeneration, manure, maturity, moist, moose, mulch, mycorrhizal fungi, N, Nitrogen, Nutribud, nutritious, older, organic, pack, Packman, Palmer, pears, peppery, pH, pods, poison, pollinate, purple, rate, respiration, salad, sandy, seed, seedbed, seedling, shade, short, side shoot, sidedress, Soil, spacing, sprouts, stalk, stir fry, summer, sun, tall, tolerant, tract, transplant, University of Connecticut, urinary, valuable, variety, vegetable, vegetarian, veggie, Vitamin, Waltham 29, water, weather, weed, well-drained, winter, yellow, yield on January 14, 2011 | 2 Comments »

Broccoli may be the most nutritious of all the cole crops, which are among the most nutritious of all vegetables. Broccoli and cauliflower (and other members of the genus Brassica) contain very high levels of antioxidant and anticancer compounds. These nutrients typically are more concentrated in flower buds than in leaves, and that makes broccoli [...]

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High in Antioxidants, Brassicas, the Backbone of Your Winter Garden!

Posted in Aphids, Brassicas, Broccoflower, Broccoli, Brussel Sprouts, Cabbage, Cauliflower, Celery, Collards, Fusarium Wilt, Kale, Kohlrabi, SeedSaving, Verticillium Wilt, White Fly, Winter Plants - Cool Season, tagged aphid, bolt, broccoflower, broccoli, cabbage, Calabrese, cauliflower, cold, companion, Curly, cut and come again, DeCicco, Dinosaur, disease, Elephant, F, fly, folklore, fusarium, Goliath, head, heirloom, hybrid, Irish, Italian, kale, Lacinato, leaf, maggots, Pilgrim Terrace, purple, Raab, Red, resistant, Romanesco, Russian, Saga, spiral, spring, sprout, tolerance, Vitamin A, Waltham, white, wilt, yellow, YR on September 4, 2010 | 2 Comments »

Broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, cauliflower, collards, kales, kohlrabi! Fall Broccoli Broccoli is not only beautiful, but one of your best garden investments per square foot since it continues to produce after the main head is taken! Grow large headed varieties, sprouting varieties, Romanesco spirals, or loose leafy Raab with ‘pleasantly bitter and peppery highlights!’ Plant [...]

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September, Last Tasty Summer Harvests; Time for Brassicas, Celery & Peas

Posted in Antioxidant, Aphids, Biofumigation, Bolt Resistant/Slow Bolting, Brassicas, Broccoflower, Broccoli, Brussel Sprouts, Cabbage, Cauliflower, Celery, Collards, Cultural Control, Gophers, Kale, Kohlrabi, Lettuce, Peas, Seeds, SeedSaving, White Fly, Winter Plants - Cool Season, tagged antioxidant, aphid, biofumigation, Brassicas, broccoli, Brussels Sprouts, cabbage, cauliflower, celery, collards, companion, December, glucosinolate, gopher, harvest, insecticide, journal, kale, kohlrabi, Labor Day, lettuce, natural, November, October, Peas, seed, September, transplant, white fly, winter on September 1, 2010 | 1 Comment »

The next months…so you can plan ahead! As more of your plants are finishing, make notes about your summer crops in your garden journal. September Let some plants continue to grow for seed saving! First fall planting month! Planting from seeds is fun; transplants produce sooner. Plant Sweet Peas for Christmas bloom! Plant gift plants [...]

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Important Principles for No-Loss Production Time

Posted in Design - Layout, Greenhouse, Pests, SeedSaving, Varieties, Watering, tagged aphids, beneficial, biodiversity, bird, bolting, cold, compost, cover, crop, feed, foliar, frequent, fungi, Gophers!, Greenhouse, habitat, hand water, harvest, heat, hose, insect, irrigation, lizard, mealy bugs, mites, mulch, mycorrhizal, nematodes, nutritious, onion, organic, pest, pollination, records, resistant, rotation, row, saving, seed, slow, soaker, Soil, starts, succession, tolerant, tomato, Varieties, vermicompost on April 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

This post is the 2nd of how to plant a lot in your urban garden, and up your production in a small space! Please also see the 4.17.10 post! Thanks, and good planting to you! Gophers and other Blessed Pests First! When I give this as a talk, you should hear the groans from my listeners [...]

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Archive for the ‘SeedSaving’ Category

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

Chard, Glorious Chard! And Leafminers.

August in Your Garden!

Strawberry Tips for Tasty Super Berries!

Broccoli! Beautiful and valuable to your health!

High in Antioxidants, Brassicas, the Backbone of Your Winter Garden!

September, Last Tasty Summer Harvests; Time for Brassicas, Celery & Peas

Important Principles for No-Loss Production Time

Read me at Santa Barbara View!

Farmers’ Almanac BEST PLANTING DAYS!

Gardening Tips!

Planting at the Right Time!