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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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Divine December, Winter’s June here in SoCal!

Posted in Amendments, Aphids, Artichoke, Arugula, Asparagus, Basil, Beets, Brassicas, Broccoli, Brussel Sprouts, Bunch onions, Cabbage, Carrot, Cauliflower, Celery, Chard, Cilantro, Collards, Fava, Fertilizer - Sidedressing, Foliar Feeding, Frost, Freeze, Garlic, Gophers, Kale, Kohlrabi, Leafminer, Lettuce, Peas, Pepper, Potato, PreSoak, PreSprout, Radish, Seeds, Snails & Slugs, Strawberries, Tomato, Turnip, Veggies!, Weather, White Fly, Winter Plants - Cool Season, tagged aphid, artichoke, arugula, August, baking soda, barrier, basil, basket, beet, Bob Anderson, Brassica, broc, broccoli, bunch onion, cabbage, carrot, catalog, cauliflower, celery, Cerena, chard, Charles Dawson Shanly, clove, collard, Dec 21, December, everbearer, Farmers Almanac, fava, fertilizer, fish, foliar, freeze, frost, garden, garlic, gift, gopher, harvest, Holiday, island seed & feed, June, kale, kelp, kohlrabi, leafminer, leaves, legume, lettuce, manure, mesclun, Nitrogen, organic, Peas, pepper, pest, Plant, potato, powdered, radish, rubbing alcohol, seed, September, sidedressing, Silversmith, skin, slug, snail, soak, SoCal, Soil, spring, sprout, strawberry, successive, sustainable, tea, tomato, transplant, trap, turnip, veggies, water, weather, white flies, winter, Winter Solstice, wire, yellow on December 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Happy Winter Solstice/Yule, Dec 21st! I like this saying I found at the Old Farmers Almanac: Old Frost, the Silversmith has come: His crisping touch is on the weeds. – Charles Dawson Shanly And, bless him, his touch will soon be on our veggies! Some will love it; kales are said to taste better after [...]

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Herbs and Your Winter Veggies

Posted in Artichoke, Beets, Beneficials, Broccoli, Brussel Sprouts, Cabbage, Carrot, Cauliflower, Celery, Chard, Cilantro, Collards, Companion Plant, Garlic, Kale, Leeks, Lettuce, Onion, Parsley, Peas, Pests, Potato, Strawberries, Time of Year, Veggies!, Winter Plants - Cool Season on November 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Herbs and Your Winter Veggies Lavender, Marguestau at http://lestroisamies.wordpress.com/ Herbs – Pretty, aromatic, to repel pests! The flavors that makes veggie dishes come alive! Now’s the time for them to get a good start, with fall and winter rains coming. Divide the ones you already have growing now as your plants slow down. Rosemary and [...]

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Winter Plants are Very Efficient!

Posted in Artichoke, Beets, Brassicas, Broccoli, Cabbage, Carrot, Celery, Chard, Collards, Kale, Lettuce, Onion, Peas, Potato, Time of Year, Veggies!, Winter Plants - Cool Season on October 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Most of them are Cut and Come Again types! Harvest your big greens – kale and collards, and lettuces, leaf by leaf rather than cutting your plant down. Many lettuces will ‘come back’ even if you cut them off an inch or two above ground. Leave the stalk in the ground, see what happens! Rather [...]

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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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PLANT Your First Round of Summer Veggies!!!!!

Posted in Artichoke, Bean, Beets, Broccoli, Cabbage, Carrot, Chard, Cilantro, Community Gardens, Corn, Cucumber, Design - Layout, Determinate, Disease, Eggplant, Fusarium Wilt, Indeterminate, Lettuce, Melon, Okra, Onion, Peas, Pepper, Potato, Pumpkins, Radish, Seeds, Squash, Strawberries, Summer Plants - Warm Season, Time of Year, Tomato, Turnip, Verticillium Wilt, Winter Plants - Cool Season, tagged amendment, April, artichoke, bean, beets, broccoli, bunch, cabbage, carrot, chamomile, chard, cilantro, cool-season, corn, cucumber, determinate, drainage, eggplant, flower, fusarium, gardener, gift, Greenhouse, heat, humid, indeterminate, June, lettuce, lima, lottery, lover, March, melon, mildew, Mother's Day, New Zealand, okra, onion, Peas, pepper, Pilgrim Terrace, poppy, potato, powdery, Provider, pumpkin, radish, resistant, round, seed, South, spinach, squash, starts, strawberry, succession, summer, tomatoes, transplant, turnip, verticillium, vine, wilt, winter on March 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

FIRST WEEK OF MARCH! Go get your seeds, transplants, any amendments that make you happy, clear your space, and go for it! Poke bean seeds in at the base of finishing peas, tomatoes, artichokes from transplants, corn, New Zealand spinach, cucumbers, summer and winter squash! [Pilgrim Terrace gardeners, those of you in the lottery section [...]

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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 – [...]

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January! New Year, clear, crisp, pristine gardening

Posted in Amendments, Artichoke, Asparagus, Beets, Broccoli, Brussel Sprouts, Bunch onions, Cabbage, Carrot, Cauliflower, Celery, Collards, Community Gardens, Compost, Fertilizer - Sidedressing, Foliar Feeding, Fertilzer, Frost, Freeze, Greenhouse, Greens, Horseradish, Kale, Legumes - Peas, Beans, Fava, Lettuce, Manure, Onion, Peas, Pepper, Raised Beds, Rhubarb, Seeds, Snails & Slugs, Soil, Strawberries, Veggies!, Watering, Winter Plants - Cool Season, tagged 32, aged, artichoke, asparagus, axil, bare, bed, beets, berry, Bonanza, boots, broccoli, Brussels, bush, cabbage, California, cane, carrots, cauliflower, celery, chard, chicken, children, compost, cool, cover, crisp, Day, deciduous, dog, fall, farmers, February, fertilizer, frame, frost, fruit, garden, germinate, Greenhouse, harvest, head, horseradish, Jan, January, jicama, journal, Latino, leaves, lettuce, manure, March, market, mud, mulch, N, Nitrogen, onion, order, organic, Outfitters, parsley, Pat, Peas, pepper, plan, Plant, poisonous, prediction, radish, rain, raised, rhubarb, root, salad, seed, shed, shoot, short, side, sidedress, Sloggers, slow, slug, sluggo, snail, SoCal, Soil, Southern, space, spring, sprouts, stem, strawberry, summer, supply, temp, thin, transplant, tree, turnips, Valentine, water, weather, Welsh, wildflower, winter, work on January 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Or wear your awesome Sloggers! With boots like these from Sloggers Garden Outfitters, No Problem! Regrettably, their selection for men lags. Oops, did I say that?! No matter, buy some for your Sweetie! Valentine’s Day is coming…. This is bare root time – plants without soil on their roots! For us SoCal gardeners that’s cane berry bushes, [...]

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Archive for the ‘Artichoke’ Category

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

Divine December, Winter’s June here in SoCal!

Herbs and Your Winter Veggies

Winter Plants are Very Efficient!

Tomatoes & the Wilts – Part 1

PLANT Your First Round of Summer Veggies!!!!!

February! SOIL & SEED Month!

January! New Year, clear, crisp, pristine gardening

Read me at Santa Barbara View!

Farmers’ Almanac BEST PLANTING DAYS!

Gardening Tips!

Planting at the Right Time!