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 [...]
Mulching/Composting in Place – Some Like it HOT!
Posted in Amendments, Bean, Beets, Carrot, Chard, Companion Plant, Compost, Cucumber, Disease, Eggplant, Fusarium Wilt, Green Beans, Heat Tolerant, Jicama, Lettuce, Manure, Melon, Mildew, Mulch, Mycorrhizae, Okra, Onion, Pepper, Pests, Pumpkins, Radish, Raised Beds, Snails & Slugs, Soil, Squash, Straw Bale, Strawberries, Summer Plants - Warm Season, Teas- Compost, Manure, Worm, Tomato, Turnip, Veggies!, Verticillium Wilt, Watering, Watermelon, Worm Castings, tagged air, bale, bean, beet, berm, bugs, cage, canopy, capture, carrot, chard, chop and drop, coastal, community, companion, compost, cucumber, debris, degradable, disease, dry, earth, eggplant, erosion, feed store, free, fungi, fusarium, garden, germinating, grass, habitat, heat, hillside, hot, humidity, inoculate, jicama, kitchen, layer, leaves, lettuce, light, living, manure, marine, Mediterranean, melon, mildew, moist, mulch, mycorrhizal, okra, onion, organic, organism, overwintering, pepper, pest, Pilgrim Terrace, pine needle, Plant, pumpkin, purslane, radish, rainwater, raised bed, Red, redwood, root, salad, seed, slug, SoCal, Soil, Southern, sprout, squash, staw, strawberry, sunny, sweet, tea, terrace, tolerant, tomato, transplant, trellis, turnip, verticillium, water, weed, wilt, wind, winter, worm, wriggler, yarrow, zone, zucchini on June 11, 2011 | 2 Comments »
I used to be a total mulcher, covered my whole veggie garden. I’ve adjusted my coastal SoCal mulch* thinking to match the plant! Same goes for composting in place. That’s a good idea for some areas of your garden, other areas not at all! If you are coastal SoCal, in the marine layer zone, your mulch, or composting in place, may [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
June – a Tasty Time!
Posted in Bolt Resistant/Slow Bolting, Heat Tolerant, Summer Plants - Warm Season, Varieties, Watering, tagged 0-10-10, acidic, bitter, blood, bloom, bolt, burn, community, compost, dandelion, dress, dry, emulsion, feed, fertilize, fish, garden, gift, guano, harvest, heat, indeterminate, irregular, Island, June, kelp, leaf, manure, married, marry, meal, mulch, needle, phosphorus, pilgrim, pine, potassium, resistant, roots, runner, seabird, seedlings, seeds, side, sidedress, slow, sluggo, Soil, strawberry, summer, terrace, tip, tolerant, tomato, water on June 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
June blooms mean tasty veggies! The first tomatoes have now been eaten at Pilgrim Terrace Community Garden, and one bell pepper! June is not so much a planting month as a maintenance month and getting those first veggies! You can continue to plant more rounds of your summer plants, especially the ones that don’t have [...]
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Gardening Tips!
- All Season Plants
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- Artichoke
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- Event!
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- Nonfat Powdered Milk
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