Give your plants a chance! Not too much N (Nitrogen) It imbalances your plants, just like too much sugar for us. You get lots of leaf, no fruit, growth is too fast and ‘soft,’ inviting to pests and diseases. Watering practices make a difference. Overhead watering is not good for most plants, but especially not for [...]
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Give your plants a chance!
Posted in Amendments, Ants, Aphids, Biodiversity, Blood Meal, Compost, Disease, Disease Resistant, Eggplant, Fertilizer - Sidedressing, Foliar Feeding, Fish - Kelp, Heirloom, Hybrid, Manure, Mildew, Pests, Snails & Slugs, Soil, Time of Year, Tomato, Varieties, Watering, White Fly, Worm Castings, tagged amend, ants, aphids, balance, basin, beneficial, biodiversity, blood meal, bloom, cold, compost, day length, disease, drainage, drip, eggplant, fish emulsion, furrow, garden, germination, hot, insects, manure, mildew, N, Nitrogen, organic, organisms, overhead, patch, pest, plants, possums, production, raccons, raised bed, row, season, sidedressing, skunks, slugs, snails, Soil, temp, tolerant, tomatoes, variety, veggies, virus, water, weather, weeds, whiteflies, worm castings on February 17, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Keeping Your Veggie Garden Happy – Foliar Plant Care!
Posted in Amendments, Baking Soda, Bean, Community Gardens, Compost, Cucumber, Disease, Eggplant, Epsom Salt, Fertilizer - Sidedressing, Foliar Feeding, Fertilzer, Fish - Kelp, Germinate, Green Beans, Home Remedies, Legumes - Peas, Beans, Fava, Manure, Melon, Mildew, Nonfat Powdered Milk, NPK - Nitrogen Phosphorus Potassium, Peas, Pepper, Potato, Pumpkins, Seeds, Squash, Summer Plants - Warm Season, Teas- Compost, Manure, Worm, Time of Year, Tomato, Veggies!, Watermelon, Worm Castings, tagged 18 Karat Gold, alkaline, Ambassador, amino, ATTRA, baking, bean, bicarbonate, Care, casting, caution, cell, chlorophyll, compost, cucumber, cucurbit, disease, dish, Diva, Dramm, eggplant, emulsion, enzyme, epsom, eyes, fertilizer, fish, foliar, fruit, fungal spore, fungicide, garden, germicide, germination, Gladiator, growth, healthy, humid, immune, inhibit, insecticidal, kelp, leaf, leaf blight, liquid, magnesium, manure, milk, mite, Nitrogen, nonfat, nontoxic, nuts, oil, pepper, pest, pesticide, phosphorus, phytotoxic, Plant, pm, powdered, powdery mildew, prevention, protein, psyllid, pumpkin, rose, rot, rust, salad, salt, seed, skin, soap, soda, sodium, solanaceae, spray, squash, Success, sulfate, sulfur, summer, Sunglo zucchini, Sunray, surfactant, tea, thrips, tomatillo, tomato, uptake, veggie, Vitamin, Wildcat, worm, yellow on June 24, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Foliar plant care is so easy! Use a Dramm Can, the Perfect Foliar Machine! Worm Castings, Compost, Manure Tea, Fish Emulsion/Kelp for FEEDING – All in ONE! You can easily make this tea! A handful of castings, a handful to a cup of compost, handful of manure, stir and let them soak overnight in a [...]
Mulching/Composting in Place – Some Like it HOT!
Posted in Amendments, Bean, Beets, Carrot, Chard, Companion Plant, Compost, Cucumber, Disease, Eggplant, Fusarium Wilt, Green Beans, Heat Tolerant, Jicama, Lettuce, Manure, Melon, Mildew, Mulch, Mycorrhizae, Okra, Onion, Pepper, Pests, Pumpkins, Radish, Raised Beds, Snails & Slugs, Soil, Squash, Straw Bale, Strawberries, Summer Plants - Warm Season, Teas- Compost, Manure, Worm, Tomato, Turnip, Veggies!, Verticillium Wilt, Watering, Watermelon, Worm Castings, tagged air, bale, bean, beet, berm, bugs, cage, canopy, capture, carrot, chard, chop and drop, coastal, community, companion, compost, cucumber, debris, degradable, disease, dry, earth, eggplant, erosion, feed store, free, fungi, fusarium, garden, germinating, grass, habitat, heat, hillside, hot, humidity, inoculate, jicama, kitchen, layer, leaves, lettuce, light, living, manure, marine, Mediterranean, melon, mildew, moist, mulch, mycorrhizal, okra, onion, organic, organism, overwintering, pepper, pest, Pilgrim Terrace, pine needle, Plant, pumpkin, purslane, radish, rainwater, raised bed, Red, redwood, root, salad, seed, slug, SoCal, Soil, Southern, sprout, squash, staw, strawberry, sunny, sweet, tea, terrace, tolerant, tomato, transplant, trellis, turnip, verticillium, water, weed, wilt, wind, winter, worm, wriggler, yarrow, zone, zucchini on June 11, 2011 | 2 Comments »
I used to be a total mulcher, covered my whole veggie garden. I’ve adjusted my coastal SoCal mulch* thinking to match the plant! Same goes for composting in place. That’s a good idea for some areas of your garden, other areas not at all! If you are coastal SoCal, in the marine layer zone, your mulch, or composting in place, may [...]
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 [...]
JUNE! Harvest and Don’t Stop Planting!
Posted in Arugula, Basil, Bean, Beets, Biodiversity, Carrot, Chard, Cilantro, Corn, Cucumber, Design - Layout, Eggplant, Green Beans, Herbs - Culinary, Medicinal Food Magic!, Jicama, Lettuce, Melon, Okra, Pepper, Pumpkins, Radish, Squash, Succession, Summer Plants - Warm Season, Time of Year, Tomato, Turnip, Watermelon, tagged April, August, basil, beans, beets, camping, carrots, chard, cilantro, cook, cool, corn, cucs, cucumber, decrease, dehydrate, fall, family, flower, frost, gardener, growth, harvest, heat, hibiscus, hollyhock, hot, jambalaya, jicama, June, may, melons, mid-June, month, New Zealand, night, October, okra, peppers, planting, pod, production, pumpkins, radish, raw, salad, seeds, snack, spinach, squashes, star, steam, stew, store, succession, summer, tomatoes, traditional, transplants, turnips, weather, winter, year round on May 31, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Cucumber Flowers June is another grand month for planting, more heat, fast growth. Plant in spots that have already finished; plant for succession, a continued harvest of your favorites! If you couldn’t take advantage of April or May, step up to it now! Seeds are good, transplants are faster if your summer palate is salivating! [...]
Healthy Summer Feeding, Watering, Disease & Pest Prevention!
Posted in Amendments, Aphids, Arugula, Baking Soda, Bat - Seabird Guano, Bean, Beets, Beneficials, Broccoli, Carrot, Chard, Cilantro, Community Gardens, Cucumber, Cucumber Beetle, Cultural Control, Disease, Eggplant, Epsom Salt, Fava, Fertilizer - Sidedressing, Foliar Feeding, Green Beans, Kale, Lettuce, Melon, Mildew, Nonfat Powdered Milk, NPK - Nitrogen Phosphorus Potassium, Parsley, Pepper, Pests, Pollinator, Snails & Slugs, Strawberries, Tomato, Veggies!, Watering, White Fly, tagged allysum, ants, aphid, application, arugula, baking soda, balance, bat, beans, bee, beetle, beets, beneficial, biodiversity, black, blast, block, bloom, blue, borage, broccoli, bug, bulk, burned, carrot, chard, cilantro, crop, cuc, cucumber, deep, disease, down, drench, drown, edible, eggplant, epsom, fava, feed, fertilizer, flies, flood, flower, fly, foliar, fruit, fungi, gopher, gray, green, grow, guano, gurgler, habitat, hands, harvest, head, healthy, heat, hose, hot, hover, hungry, immune, infested, insect, island seed & feed, kale, lacewing, ladybird, leaf, leafminers, lettuce, may, melon, midday, mildew, milk, month, mustard, N, Nitrogen, nonfat, orange, organism, overhead, oxygen, P, package, parsley, pepper, pest, phosphorus, Plant, pocket, pollinator, powdered, prevention, roses, row, salad, salts, seabird, seed, shield, shut, side shoot, slug, sluggo, snail, Soil, solanaceae, spot, spray, spread, star, strawberries, strawberry, summer, surface, sweet, system, timer, tomato, transplant, trap, underneath, veggies, wash, water, weed, week, white, wilt, young, zucchini, zuch on May 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Feeding. It’s heating up, your plants are growing fast, they’re hungry and need more water! Give your leaf crops like lettuce lots of Nitrogen. Don’t overfeed beans, strawberries or tomatoes or you will get lots of leaf, no crop! If you do, did, give your plants some seabird guano (bat guano is too hot sometimes). Fertilizers [...]
Merry May Veggie Gardening to You!
Posted in Basil, Bean, Beets, Beneficials, Broccoli, Carrot, Community Gardens, Corn, Cucumber, Eggplant, Green Beans, Lettuce, Melon, Okra, Parsley, Pepper, Pollinator, Pumpkins, Radish, Squash, Sunflower, Tomato, Turnip, Veggies!, Watermelon, tagged 2011, April, basil, bean, bee, beet, beneficial, biennial, black, bounty, bouquet, broccoli, California, cantaloupe, carpenter, carrot, chard, chayote, chopped, cook, corn, cosmos, cucs, earth, eggplant, favorite, female, flavor, flower, fuzzy, garden, Garni, giveaway, harden, harvest, heat, herb, hungry, insect, leaves, lettuce, lover, luscious, male, Mama, marigolds, mashed, mature, may, melons, month, okra, oregano, parsley, peppers, petunias, pick, pollinator, pruning, pumpkins, radish, root, rubbed, sage, seed, soup, sprout, squash, stalk, steeped, sting, storing, summer, sunflower, sweet alyssum, Teddy Bear, thyme, tomatoes, turnips, Varieties, variety, veggie, vine, winter, year-arounds, yellow, zucchini, zuch, zuchs on May 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
April 15, 2011 I had my first encounter with a huge male carpenter bee – see image! Awesome! They are all fuzzy and yellow (not all black like the females), sometimes called Teddy Bear Bees, and I could totally see why! They hover closely and look you right in the eye, buzz off and come [...]
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Farmers’ Almanac BEST PLANTING DAYS!
Gardening Tips!
- All Season Plants
- Amendments
- Antioxidant
- Ants
- Aphids
- Artichoke
- Arugula
- Asparagus
- Aspirin
- Baking Soda
- Basil
- Bat – Seabird Guano
- Bean
- Beets
- Beneficials
- Biodiversity
- Biofumigation
- Birds
- Blood Meal
- Bolt Resistant/Slow Bolting
- Bone Meal
- Brassicas
- Broccoflower
- Broccoli
- Brussel Sprouts
- Bunch onions
- Cabbage
- Carrot
- Cauliflower
- Celery
- Chard
- Cilantro
- Coffee Grounds
- Collards
- Community Gardens
- Companion Plant
- Compost
- Container Gardening
- Corn
- Cucumber
- Cucumber Beetle
- Cultural Control
- Design – Layout
- Determinate
- Disease
- Disease Resistant
- Early Blight
- Edible Flowers
- Eggplant
- Epsom Salt
- Event!
- Fava
- Fertilizer – Sidedressing, Foliar Feeding
- Fertilzer
- Fish – Kelp
- Flea Beetles
- Floating Row Covers
- Frost tolerant
- Frost, Freeze
- Fungus
- Fusarium Wilt
- Garlic
- Germinate
- Go Vertical!
- Gophers
- Green Beans
- Greenhouse
- Greens
- Guild
- Harvest
- Heat Tolerant
- Heirloom
- Herbs – Culinary, Medicinal Food Magic!
- Home Remedies
- Horseradish
- Hybrid
- Hydrozone
- Indeterminate
- Innoculants
- Inoculate
- Interplant
- Jicama
- Kale
- Kohlrabi
- Lasagna Gardening – Food Not Lawns
- Late Blight
- Layering
- Leafminer
- Leeks
- Legumes – Peas, Beans, Fava
- Lettuce
- Manure
- Melon
- Mice – Rats
- Mildew
- Moon Planting
- Mulch
- Mycorrhizae
- Nematode
- Nitrogen
- No-dig
- Nonfat Powdered Milk
- NPK – Nitrogen Phosphorus Potassium
- Nutrition Specifics
- Okra
- Onion
- Parsley
- Parsnip
- Peas
- Pepper
- Permaculture
- Pests
- Pollinator
- Potato
- PreSoak, PreSprout
- Pruning
- Pumpkins
- Purslane
- Radish
- Rain
- Raised Beds
- Raspberry
- Recipes
- Rhubarb
- Seed Balls
- Seeds
- Seeds – Planting
- SeedSaving
- Sheet composting
- Skunks
- Snails & Slugs
- Soil
- Solarization
- Squash
- Stacking
- Straw Bale
- Strawberries
- Succession
- Summer
- Summer Plants – Warm Season
- Sunflower
- Teas- Compost, Manure, Worm
- Time of Year
- Tomato
- Tools
- Turnip
- Varieties
- Veggies!
- Verticillium Wilt
- VFN
- Watering
- Watermelon
- Weather
- White Fly
- Winter Plants – Cool Season
- Worm Castings
- Yam
- Zucchini
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