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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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Chard, Glorious Chard! And Leafminers.

Posted in Amendments, Biodiversity, Celery, Chard, Compost, Design - Layout, Eggplant, Frost tolerant, Germinate, Kale, Leafminer, Manure, Pests, Recipes, Seeds, Seeds - Planting, SeedSaving, Snails & Slugs, Soil, Veggies!, tagged 55, apples, April, baby, beets, biodiverse, bouquet, Bright Lights, brown, celery, chard, clime, cluster, compost, Cooperative, Cornell, crop, crow, curly leaf, cut & come again, days, eggplant, eggs, ethylene, Extension, feeze, flies, footprint, Fordhook, frost, garden, garden tool, generation, germination, giveaway, green, habitat, harvest, herb, Illinois, kale, larva, lasagna, leafminers, life cycle, low calorie, manure, matue, may, micro greens, midrib, Neon, orange, overwinter, perennial, pink, prodigious, producer, prolific, Red, rhubarb, row, salad, sandy loam, sauteed, seed, slug, sluggo, snail, SoCal, Soil, sow, spinach, spring, stew, stir fry, straw, sun, Swiss, thin, tolerates, trade, Vitamin, water, white, women, worm casting, year, yellow, zucchini on September 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Chard is the bouquet of the Garden! Whether it is all green, a white stemmed Fordhook Giant, or Bright Lights/Neon from white to neon pink, bright oranges and reds, brilliant yellow, it is glorious! And it’s not just another pretty face, it’s a prodigious producer, Cut-&-Come-Again, and again, and again! In our SoCal clime, it acts [...]

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Summer Watering Coastal SoCal

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 | Leave a Comment »

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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Seed Soaking/Presprouting Tips & Ideas! Part 1

Posted in Bean, Beets, Celery, Chard, Community Gardens, Corn, Cucumber, Eggplant, Germinate, Lettuce, Melon, Okra, Pepper, PreSoak, PreSprout, Pumpkins, Seeds, Seeds - Planting, Squash, Tomato, Veggies!, tagged bean, beet, Bilberback, bleach, book, cabbage, cell, chamomile, chard, coast, coat, cold, compost, corn, country, crop, cucs, cucumber, cucurbita, damage, date, Diane, disease, Dorothy, drain, eggplant, emerge, fruit, fungi, Garden Secrets, germinate, gourd, Greenhouse, ground, Harrowsmith, heat, Hinshaw, hot, hydrate, hydrogen peroxide, imbibitional, inhibit, injury, jalapenos, kelp, label, legume, lettuce, life, light, lima, loosen, lover, luffa, manure, marine layer, melon, membrane, mist, moisture, moisturization, name, nutrient, okra, overnight, oversoak, oxygen, package, paper, Patent, pepper, Pilgrim Terrace, presoak, presprout, protect, pumpkin, rapid, rinse, room, root, scar, scarify, Scarlet Runner, seed, seedling, shock, skin, soak, soaking, SoCal, solution, spray, sprout, squash, submerge, tea, temperature, tepid, time, tip, tomato, towel, uptake, vegetable, vermiculite, viable, water, weather, wet, worm on February 25, 2011 | 8 Comments »

Now IS still a good time to start your seeds, especially your true heat lovers – eggplant, limas, melons, okra, peppers and pumpkins, and for you SoCal coastal marine layer gardeners, tomatoes! When you start them, for your sanity, label your seedlings with their name and date! Hmph. How hard could it be, soaking seeds?! It isn’t, [...]

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Seed Soaking/Presprouting Tips & Ideas Part 2

Posted in Asparagus, Cabbage, Carrot, Celery, Cilantro, Community Gardens, Corn, Germinate, Lettuce, Onion, Parsley, Parsnip, Peas, PreSoak, PreSprout, Rain, Seeds, Squash, Veggies!, Watering, Weather, tagged absorption, agent, asparagus, cabbage, Carl Wilson, carrot, celery, cilantro, cling, clipper, coat, Cooperative Extension, coriander, corn, cover, Denver, dry, fennel, forecast, furrow, gel, germination, horticulture, hot, humus, lattice, lettuce, mist, moist, onion, paper, parsley, pea, planting, pre-germinate, presoak, presprout, sandpaper, scarify, seed, seed tape, seedling, shade cloth, shell, slice, small, solution, sow, squash, squeeze, surface, technique, towel, viable, water, weather, wet on February 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Have you already seen Part 1? Why soak or presprout, all about seeds, how seed coats function; soaking times, seed soaking solutions. Scarify Seeds Scarify pea seeds to speed up absorption of water, and therefore, germination. Rub them between sheets of coarse sandpaper, or clip them with a nail clipper by making a slice through the seed [...]

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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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Delicious December, Winter’s June!

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 | Leave a Comment »

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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Archive for the ‘Celery’ Category

Divine December, Winter’s June here in SoCal!

Herbs and Your Winter Veggies

Winter Plants are Very Efficient!

Chard, Glorious Chard! And Leafminers.

Summer Watering Coastal SoCal

Seed Soaking/Presprouting Tips & Ideas! Part 1

Seed Soaking/Presprouting Tips & Ideas Part 2

February! SOIL & SEED Month!

January! New Year, clear, crisp, pristine gardening

Delicious December, Winter’s June!

Read me at Santa Barbara View!

Farmers’ Almanac BEST PLANTING DAYS!

Gardening Tips!

Planting at the Right Time!