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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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15 Super Tips for a Productive Summer Veggie Patch!

Posted in Arugula, Basil, Beets, Biodiversity, Broccoli, Cabbage, Carrot, Chard, Companion Plant, Corn, Cucumber, Design - Layout, Determinate, Disease, Disease Resistant, Eggplant, Fava, Fungus, Fusarium Wilt, Go Vertical!, Green Beans, Herbs - Culinary, Medicinal Food Magic!, Hydrozone, Indeterminate, Interplant, Kale, Lettuce, Melon, Mildew, Mulch, Onion, Pepper, Pests, Radish, Squash, Strawberries, Succession, Summer, Tomato, Varieties, Verticillium Wilt, Watering, Zucchini, tagged air, aromatic, arugula, back, basil, beans, beets, biodiversity, bok choi, broccoli, bush, cabbage, cage, canning, carrots, chard, circulation, clean, coastal, cucumber, culinary, damage, determinate, diagonal, disease, Eden Project, eggplant, even ripening, fava, fixing, food forest, front, fruit, fungi, fusarium, garden, ground, Grow Planner for Ipad, growth, harvest, height, herbs, increase, indeterminate, invasive, kale, landscape, lettuce, Mediterranean, melons, mildew, Mother Earth News, mulch, multi row, niche, Nitrogen, North, nutritious, onion, oregano, ornamental, overplant, patch, Patio, pepper, perennial, pest, Plant, pole, productive, radish, repel, rosemary, round, row, sage, Santa Barbara, season, seedless straw, shade, short, single, smaller, SoCal, Soil, space, spinach, squashes, Squidoo, strawberries, succession, summer, sun, super, table, tall, thin, thyme, tips, tomatoes, tree, trellis, underplanting, vegetable, Vegetable Garden Layout, veggie, verticillium, water, wilt, zucchini on February 8, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Whether you are tucking things into niches between ornamental landscape plants, planting a patio patch like in the image, setting up a first time summer garden patch, or replanning your annual garden, here are some great ideas to increase your production! 1. If you have space, and are creating a back, or front, yard food forest, always [...]

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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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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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Tomatoes are the Fireworks of Your Summer Garden!

Posted in Community Gardens, Cultural Control, Disease, Disease Resistant, Fungus, Fusarium Wilt, Heat Tolerant, Heirloom, Pollinator, Summer Plants - Warm Season, Tomato, Varieties, Veggies!, Verticillium Wilt, VFN, Watering, tagged 104, 55, 70, 85, above, airborne, below, blossom, blossom-end rot, branch, cage, daytime, drop, dry farm, early, Early Girl, fireworks, flavor, Florasette, flower, fungi, garden, grown, healthy, heat, heat set, Heat Wave, heirloom, High, home, Jetsetter, John Denver, leaves, Legend, low, Matina, maturing, moist, money, nighttime, NV, Oregon Spring, pinch, Polar Baby, pollination, production, prune, question, resistance, root, season, seed, shape, Silvery Fir Tree, Soil, Solar Set, splash, spring, stem, suckers, summer, Sunchaser, Sunmaster, Sunpride, Surfire, temp, temperature, tolerance, tolerant, tomato, transplant, trellis, true love, University, variety, veggies, water, wilt, wound, zone on May 5, 2011 | 1 Comment »

They really are, aren’t they?! The most common summer veggie question I get asked is, ‘What’s wrong with my tomatoes?’ So here are reminders, tips to keep your plants healthy and in strong production! In areas with wilts in the soil, plant only toms that have resistance or tolerance to the wilts; avoid heirlooms. Jetsetter, an [...]

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Tomatoes & Wilt Part 2, Favas, Basil

Posted in Amendments, Basil, Bat - Seabird Guano, Community Gardens, Determinate, Disease, Disease Resistant, Fava, Fish - Kelp, Fusarium Wilt, Late Blight, Mycorrhizae, Summer Plants - Warm Season, Tomato, Verticillium Wilt, VFN, Worm Castings, tagged airborne, April, ArcaMax, basil, bell bean, blight, canner, companion, counteract, cure, dandelion, determinate, diagnosis, disease, dompost, Earlly Girl, early, fava, Gene Bazan, Genovese, heat, humidity, Jeavons, Jetsetter, lab, Legend, lemon, lover, March, New Hampshire Surecrop, Nov, Nufar, Nursery, pathology, Penn State, pesto, purple, resistant, seed, Sep, slicer, SoCal, Soil, Surecrop, tolerant, tomato, variety, verticillium, VF, VFFNTA, VFN, wilt, windborne on March 27, 2011 | 4 Comments »

It may seem a bit early to talk about tomatoes, but tisn’t! Hey, it’s always ok to talk about tomatoes, right?! There are important things to know about that start well before planting time! Read on…. Last year I tried the dandelion cure – either I didn’t do it right, not enough dandelions soon enough, or [...]

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Tomatoes & the Wilts – Part 1

Posted in Amendments, Artichoke, Basil, Bat - Seabird Guano, Bean, Beets, Cucumber, Disease, Disease Resistant, Early Blight, Eggplant, Fava, Fusarium Wilt, Pepper, Potato, Raised Beds, Raspberry, Rhubarb, Straw Bale, Strawberries, Tomato, Varieties, Verticillium Wilt, VFN, Watering, Watermelon, tagged 1500, 18th, AAS, Ace, All America Selections, artichoke, Aztec, balance, bale, basil, bat, bed, beet, Better Boy, Big Beef, black, black plastic, blog, bloom, blotch, box, broad bean, brown, CA, cat, Celebrity, century, Champion, coastal, cool, crop, cucumber, cut, damp, daybreak, die, dog, dry, dry farm, Early Girl, eggplant, Europe, farm, farmer, fatality, fava, First Lady, Floramerica, flower, fold, fruit, fungus, fusarium, German, Green Bean Connection, ground, guano, hands, hay, healthy, heat, heirloom, Husky Gold, Husky Red, Inca, infected, Italian Gold, Jet Star, June gloom, leaves, length, local, lower, lowest, manure, May gray, Miracle Sweet, myth, N, nematode, nightshade, Nitrogen, one-cut prune, peach, pepper, Pink Girl, Plant, poisonous, post, potatoes, raised, raspberries, remove, resistant, restore, rhubarb, Roma, root, rose, Santa Barbara, saving, seabird, shrub, small, Soil, solarization, South America, space, spot, stem, straw, strawberries, sucker, summer, SunGold, Sunstart, Super Sweet 100, susceptible, tap, tip, tomato, tree, Ultra Sweet, variety, vegetable, veggie, verticillium, Verticillium Wilt, VF, VFN, Viva Italia, warm, warn, wash, water, watermelon, weather, werewolf, werewolves, wilt, windborne, wolf on March 18, 2011 | 3 Comments »

Wolf Peach!!!! Did you know – our tomato originated in South America and was originally cultivated by the Aztecs and Incas, came to Europe in the 1500s. People were warned not to eat them until the 18th century! Wolf Peach comes from German werewolf myths that said deadly nightshade was used to summon werewolves! ‘Tis [...]

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Preventing Powdery Mildew

Posted in Baking Soda, Bean, Community Gardens, Cucumber, Disease, Disease Resistant, Fusarium Wilt, Home Remedies, Melon, Mildew, Nonfat Powdered Milk, Peas, Pumpkins, Squash, Varieties, tagged 18 Karat Gold, AM, Ambassador, Ambrosia F1, Avola, baking soda, bean, before, can, Cavalier, Cornell, cucumber, Cumlaude, debris, detergent, disease, dish, Diva, downey, drench, entation, full, fusarium, Gladiator, green, Greenshaft, ground, habitat, hands, healthy, Hurst, infected, Kelevdon Wonder, level, longbean, Media F1, melon, Merpatim, mildew, milk, mix, Muskmelon, neighbor, nonfat, Oasis, overhead, Parkit, pea, Peawee, Perkutut, powder, powdery, practice, prevent, Primo, Provider, prune, pumpkin, reinfect, remove, resistant, Rondo, slicer, soda, spores, spread, squash, Sriti, Success, summer, sun, Sun Jewel, Sunglo, Sunray, tolerant, tools, Twinkle, University, variety, virus, wash, water, weekly, western, Wildcat, wilt, windborne, winter, yellow, zucchini on March 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Select powdery mildew resistant or tolerant varieties! Cornell University’s lists of Disease Resistant Varieties Longbeans Green beans: Provider, Merpatim, Parkit, Perkutut, Sriti Cucumber: Diva, Cumlaude, Media F1. Slicers: Cornell’s list Muskmelon: Ambrosia F1, Primo (western type), Sun Jewel Pea: Ambassador – Resistant to powdery mildew, entation virus and fusarium wilt Cavalier - Good resistance to powdery mildew. [...]

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Archive for the ‘Disease Resistant’ Category

Give your plants a chance!

15 Super Tips for a Productive Summer Veggie Patch!

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

Successful Seed Varieties for Sep/Oct Planting!

Tomatoes are the Fireworks of Your Summer Garden!

Tomatoes & Wilt Part 2, Favas, Basil

Tomatoes & the Wilts – Part 1

Preventing Powdery Mildew

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Gardening Tips!

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