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 |
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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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Posted in Aphids, Arugula, Bean, Beets, Broccoli, Bunch onions, Celery, Chard, Cucumber, Disease, Eggplant, Fungus, Fusarium Wilt, Garlic, Green Beans, Greens, Kale, Legumes - Peas, Beans, Fava, Lettuce, Mildew, Onion, Parsley, Peas, Pests, Strawberries, Summer Plants - Warm Season, Tomato, Veggies!, Verticillium Wilt, Watering, White Fly, tagged AM, aphids, arugula, beans, beets, broccoli, bulb, bunch onions, burn, can, celery, chard, coastal, cucumbers, da Vinci, daily, disease, drink, drop, drown, dry, eggplant, end, evening, fast, flavor, flies, flower, flush, fruit, fungi, fungus, fusarium, fuzzy, garlic, grow, growth, hot, inch, irregular, kale, kill, leaf crops, leaves, leonardo, lettuce, micro, midday, mildew, misshapen, moist, mulch, nature, onions, organism, overwater, oxygen, Peas, pest, production, root, season, seed, seedling, shade, shallow, SoCal, Soil, spot, squash, stop, strawberries, structure, summer, sweet, tender, tomato, transplant, underneath, verticillium, water, weather, week, white, wilt, windy on June 9, 2011 |
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Water is the driver of Nature. - Leonardo da Vinci When, Who, How, & How Much to Water Midday, on a hot day, watering will burn the leaves. Evening watering promotes mildew, fungus growth. Plants drink during the day, so AM watering is best. Plants that need little or no water and why: Onions, garlic, that are [...]
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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 |
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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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Posted in Beets, Broccoli, Bunch onions, Cabbage, Carrot, Cauliflower, Celery, Kale, Kohlrabi, Lettuce, Peas, Potato, Winter Plants - Cool Season, tagged artichoke, arugula, asparagus, axil, beets, blanch, boccoli, Brussels, bunch, buttoning, cabbage, California, carrot, cauliflower, celery, central, chard, color, curd, cut and come again, December, delicious, garden, harvest, head, June, kale, kohlrabi, leaf, lettuce, mesclun, N, Nitrogen, onion, Pat, Peas, Plant, potatoe, purple, radish, salt, side, Southern, sprouts, successive, tie, turnip, tying, UCl-157, Welsh, white, winter on December 1, 2010 |
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Glorious cauliflowers are being harvested, peas devoured, lettuce leaves eaten on the spot, mini carrots munched, radishes and arugula carried home for salads! In December, your August to October plantings are paying off! Broccolis and cabbages are coming very soon! Winter harvesting is so fine! Cut and come again is the name of the game! [...]
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