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 [...]
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 [...]
Welcome to the Beauty of October Planting!
Posted in Brassicas, Broccoflower, Broccoli, Brussel Sprouts, Cabbage, Cauliflower, Celery, Collards, Hydrozone, Kale, Kohlrabi, Lettuce, Peas, Watering, Winter Plants - Cool Season, tagged acid, alkaline, amend, aphid, artichoke, arugula, axils, basket, beans, beets, biodiversity, bird, bonemeal, borage, bowl, Bright, broccoli, Brussels Sprouts, bunch, cabbage, California, candle, carrots, cauliflower, celery, chard, chill, cleanup, collards, compost, cut and come again, December, disease, fall, flies, flowers, frost, fungi, gift, gopher, greens, habitat, harvest, heads, herbal, holidays, hydrozone, insect, Integrated Pest Management, IPM, June, kale, layer, leaf, lettuce, Lights, lizard, mangetout, manure, mildew, mulch, mycorrhiza, North, Nov, November, Oct, October, oil, onion, Peas, pest, phosphorus, pilgrim, planting, pollinator, potato, powder, prechill, radish, raised bed, Red, runner, seaweed, seed, seedling, shampoo, sidedress, sluggo, slugs, snails, snow, soap, Soil, South, Southern, spinach, spring, sprout, strawberry, sunny, terrace, test, tomatoes, transplant, University of California, vinegar, water, weather, white, wildflower, winter, worm castings, wreath, yellow on October 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Happy October, Month of Magic! The next months…so you can plan ahead! October Transplants of all fall crops, but specially of cabbages and artichokes. Cut Strawberry runners off to chill for Nov planting. November Seeds of onions for slicing. Wildflowers from seed (don’t let the bed dry out). Strawberries in no later than Nov [...]
Three Great FALL/WINTER GARDEN STRATEGIES
Posted in Brassicas, Broccoli, Cabbage, Cauliflower, Collards, Companion Plant, Fungus, Go Vertical!, Interplant, Kale, Lettuce, Mildew, Peas, Watering, Winter Plants - Cool Season, tagged basket, beans, beet, broccoli, Brussels sprout, cabbage, cage, cauliflower, chard, collard, companion, cut and come again, enhance, fall, fungus, gopher, harvest, interplant, kale, lettuce, mesclun, mildew, Nitrogen, nodule, onion, parsnip, Peas, radish, spinach, strategy, strawberry, stunt, trellis, water, winter, wire on September 24, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Interplanting, Cut & Come Again, Winter Watering! 1) Interplant! Plant peas at the base of your declining beans. Keep harvesting beans while your baby peas are coming. When you decide to remove your beans, clip the plant off at the ground, leaving the roots with their nitrogen nodules in the ground. Onions stunt peas, but [...]
High in Antioxidants, Brassicas, the Backbone of Your Winter Garden!
Posted in Aphids, Brassicas, Broccoflower, Broccoli, Brussel Sprouts, Cabbage, Cauliflower, Celery, Collards, Fusarium Wilt, Kale, Kohlrabi, SeedSaving, Verticillium Wilt, White Fly, Winter Plants - Cool Season, tagged aphid, bolt, broccoflower, broccoli, cabbage, Calabrese, cauliflower, cold, companion, Curly, cut and come again, DeCicco, Dinosaur, disease, Elephant, F, fly, folklore, fusarium, Goliath, head, heirloom, hybrid, Irish, Italian, kale, Lacinato, leaf, maggots, Pilgrim Terrace, purple, Raab, Red, resistant, Romanesco, Russian, Saga, spiral, spring, sprout, tolerance, Vitamin A, Waltham, white, wilt, yellow, YR on September 4, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, cauliflower, collards, kales, kohlrabi! Fall Broccoli Broccoli is not only beautiful, but one of your best garden investments per square foot since it continues to produce after the main head is taken! Grow large headed varieties, sprouting varieties, Romanesco spirals, or loose leafy Raab with ‘pleasantly bitter and peppery highlights!’ Plant [...]
September, Last Tasty Summer Harvests; Time for Brassicas, Celery & Peas
Posted in Antioxidant, Aphids, Biofumigation, Bolt Resistant/Slow Bolting, Brassicas, Broccoflower, Broccoli, Brussel Sprouts, Cabbage, Cauliflower, Celery, Collards, Cultural Control, Gophers, Kale, Kohlrabi, Lettuce, Peas, Seeds, SeedSaving, White Fly, Winter Plants - Cool Season, tagged antioxidant, aphid, biofumigation, Brassicas, broccoli, Brussels Sprouts, cabbage, cauliflower, celery, collards, companion, December, glucosinolate, gopher, harvest, insecticide, journal, kale, kohlrabi, Labor Day, lettuce, natural, November, October, Peas, seed, September, transplant, white fly, winter on September 1, 2010 | 1 Comment »
The next months…so you can plan ahead! As more of your plants are finishing, make notes about your summer crops in your garden journal. September Let some plants continue to grow for seed saving! First fall planting month! Planting from seeds is fun; transplants produce sooner. Plant Sweet Peas for Christmas bloom! Plant gift plants [...]
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