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Tomatoes, Wilts, Fava, Coffee Grounds

Posted in Amendments, Bone Meal, Coffee Grounds, Compost, Determinate, Disease, Fungus, Fusarium Wilt, Heirloom, Indeterminate, Manure, Nonfat Powdered Milk, Succession, Tomato, Veggies!, Verticillium Wilt, VFN, Worm Castings, tagged bean, coffee grounds, compost, cucumber, determinate, disease, fava, fusarium, germinating, green manure, indeterminate, inhibited, Jeavons, resistant, seeds, spinach, straw, successive, suppression, tolerant, tomatoes, Varieties, verticillium, weed, wilt on March 4, 2012 | 4 Comments »

Reporting on the Great Fava Versus Wilt Experiment! Some of you have been following my fava experiment, that, per John Jeavons, favas counteract the tomato Fusarium and Verticillium Wilts fungi, hoping it would work. Issues for me were lower leaves, humidity, low spots, nearby plant water needs. I religiously watered only nearby plants. But that [...]

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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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Tomatoes, Wilts, Fava, Coffee Grounds

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

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