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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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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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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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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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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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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Archive for the ‘Kohlrabi’ Category

Divine December, Winter’s June here in SoCal!

February! SOIL & SEED Month!

Delicious December, Winter’s June!

Across-the-Plot November Garden Tips

Welcome to the Beauty of October Planting!

High in Antioxidants, Brassicas, the Backbone of Your Winter Garden!

September, Last Tasty Summer Harvests; Time for Brassicas, Celery & Peas

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Farmers’ Almanac BEST PLANTING DAYS!

Gardening Tips!

Planting at the Right Time!