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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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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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Across-the-Plot November Garden Tips

Posted in Beets, Brassicas, Broccoli, Brussel Sprouts, Cabbage, Carrot, Cauliflower, Celery, Collards, Companion Plant, Fungus, Garlic, Greens, Kale, Kohlrabi, Lettuce, Onion, Peas, Tomato, tagged 1, 10, 22, accents, artichoke, bare-root, beets, Brassicas, Bright, broccoli, Brussels Sprouts, bulb, bunch, cabbage, calorie, carrots, cauliflower, celery, chard, Cherry Belle, chop and drop, cleanup, cool, early, fast, fava, fillers, French Breakfast, fungi, garden, germination, greens, grower, harvest, kale, leaves, lettuce, Lights, local, November, nurseries, nutritious, onions, parsley, Peas, potato, radish, seed, Soil, spigot, spring, steam, stew, strawberries, summer, sun, tips, tomato, transplant, tuber, turnip, Varieties, veggies, water, weather, wildflower, winter on November 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Reminder: My campaign this fall is for garden cleanup, and turning the soil to expose the fungi that affects our tomatoes, and other plants, so the fungi dries and dies! November, though cooler, is a rich planting time! First do remaining fall cleanup of lingering summer plants still at it with the warm weather we [...]

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Summer Watering Coastal SoCal

January! New Year, clear, crisp, pristine gardening

Across-the-Plot November Garden Tips

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Farmers’ Almanac BEST PLANTING DAYS!

Gardening Tips!

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