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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 [...]

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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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Growing UP, 4 High Yield Summer Plants!

Posted in Bean, Chard, Community Gardens, Corn, Cucumber, Design - Layout, Go Vertical!, Green Beans, Indeterminate, Legumes - Peas, Beans, Fava, Lettuce, Melon, Mildew, Recipes, Squash, Summer Plants - Warm Season, Sunflower, Tomato, tagged arbor, artistic, bean, build, butternut, cage, chard, community, espalier, Examiner, fence, garden, gourd, growing, harvest, heavy, High, Home Depot, indeterminate, Jack-in-the-beanstalk, kids, La, land, lettuce, mildew, onion, OSH, pasta, pesto, Pilgrim Terrace, Plant, pole, prolific, remesh, salad, sawhorse, shade, small, square foot, summer, sunflower, tomatoes, trellis, twine, upside down, veggies, vertical, vine, walnut, winter, year, yield, zucchini on April 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

From the LA Examiner.com Pasta with fried zucchini, teardrop tomatoes and walnut pesto! Four of the highest yield summer plants per square foot are indeterminate tomatoes, pole beans, zucchinis, and chard! Three of these crops can be grown up, on trellises, in cages, so your land need is small. Chard is prolific, cut and come [...]

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APRIL is for Heat Lovers! Pull back your mulches, let soil heat up, PLANT!

Posted in Amendments, Arugula, Basil, Bat - Seabird Guano, Bean, Beets, Bone Meal, Carrot, Chard, Cilantro, Corn, Cucumber, Design - Layout, Determinate, Disease, Early Blight, Eggplant, Epsom Salt, Fertilizer - Sidedressing, Foliar Feeding, Fish - Kelp, Fungus, Fusarium Wilt, Green Beans, Heat Tolerant, Herbs - Culinary, Medicinal Food Magic!, Jicama, Late Blight, Legumes - Peas, Beans, Fava, Lettuce, Manure, Melon, Mycorrhizae, Nonfat Powdered Milk, Okra, Onion, Parsley, Peas, Pepper, Potato, PreSoak, PreSprout, Pumpkins, Radish, Seeds, Squash, Strawberries, Succession, Sunflower, Tomato, Turnip, Varieties, Veggies!, Verticillium Wilt, Watering, Watermelon, Worm Castings, tagged 105, 55, 75, AAS, airborne, All America Selections, April, arugula, baby, basil, bat, beans, beets, Black Seeded Simpson, blight, bloom, bolt, bone meal, bud, canner, cantaloupe, carrots, casting, chard, cilantro, coast, coat, community, compost, cool, corn, cucumber, daytime, deactivate, degree, dense, disease, drop, early, eggplant, eHow, endive, Epsom Salt, F1, feed, fish, foliar, French Breakfast, fungi, fusarium, garden, gound, grain, Green Bean Connection, green beans, greens, guano, harvest, heat, heirloom, herb, humidity, hybridize, Jericho, Jetsetter, kelp, kernal, leaves, Legend, lettuce, lover, maintenance, manure, mature, may, mesclun, milk, mow, mulch, mycorrhizal, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Zealand, night, nonfat, Nufar, Nursery, onion, Orange Blaze, oregano, overplant, parsley, Peas, pepper, Pilgrim Terrace, Plant, pollen, pollination, presoak, presprout, protein, radish, resistance, Romaine, root, rosemary, sage, Santa Barbara, seabird, seed, shade, sidedress, Sierra, silk, slicer, slo, soak, Soil, Solanacea, spinach, squash, stunt, succession, successive, sucker, summer, sunflower, Surecrop, tassel, thyme, tipburn, tolerant, tomato, transplant, turnips, variety, verticillium, VF, VFFNTA, VFN, virus, water, watermelon, wilt, winter, worm, wound on April 1, 2011 | 2 Comments »

Why not start with an AAS (All America Selections) 2011 Winner?! Pepper ‘Orange Blaze’ F1 Early ripening orange variety, very sweet flavor, multiple disease resistances! Get out last year’s garden notes if you made any, and review for varieties you liked, where you got ‘em, how much to plant! CORN! Plant in blocks, not rows, [...]

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February 2011 Santa Barbara CA Area Garden Events!

Posted in Community Gardens, Compost, Container Gardening, Fava, Germinate, Jicama, Legumes - Peas, Beans, Fava, Rain, Seed Balls, Seeds, Seeds - Planting, tagged 2011, 3rd, adobe, annual, Apr, ball, banana, barley, beans, brewery, business, CA, canning, Catfish, CEC, chicken, class, clay, Cliff, community, compost, container, downtown, earth, eatthestreet.org, ecosystem, Environmental Council, events, expo, Fairview, farmers, Farms, fava, February, Festival, flower, Foods, fruit, garden, germinate, guerilla, habitat, Harmony, Holy Cross, home, homesteading, jicama, Jim Bones, La Sumida, marble, market, Masanobu Fukuoka, Meigs, Mesa, mulch, Nursery, nut, Oscar Carmona, pitchfork, plantation, planting, Plaza de Vera Cruze, preserves, project, rain, Santa Barbara, Saturday, seed swap, series, Shepherd, shovel, Sol, Story, Tom, trees, urban, vegetables, veggies, water, wheelbarrow on February 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

The 3rd Annual Seed Swap was a great success! I found some great fava beans donated by Tom Shepherd, Shepherd Farms. I’m still looking for some jicama seeds. There were wonderful talks, was lively music, new friendships made, and, of course, seeds gathered for mighty planting! If you didn’t make it this year, be sure to [...]

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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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3 Kinds of Peas & Strawberries; Onions & Garlic!

Posted in Bolt Resistant/Slow Bolting, Disease, Eggplant, Fungus, Garlic, Go Vertical!, Inoculate, Legumes - Peas, Beans, Fava, Mildew, Onion, Peas, Pepper, Potato, PreSoak, PreSprout, Seeds, Seeds - Planting, Strawberries, Tomato, Verticillium Wilt, Winter Plants - Cool Season, tagged abundant, bare-root, bearer, bird, bolt, bulb, California, Camarosa, Chandler, Chinese, clove, commercial, Crystal Wax, day length, day neutral, eggplant, English, ever bearing, everbearing, fall, Feb, February, garden, garlic, germination, Granex, Grano, grower, inoculate, intermediate, island seed & feed, June, legume, long day, manure, Maui, Mesa Harmony, mildew, N, netting, Nitrogen, Nov, November, onion, Oso Grande, Peas, pepper, photothermoperiodic, potato, replace, resistant, Rhizobia, Seascape, Sequoia, set, shelling, short day, snap, snow, SoCal, sprout, strawberries, stringless, succession, temperature, tomato, transplant, trellis, verticillium, Vidalia, vote, winter on November 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Mesa Harmony Garden could use your VOTE! They are in line for a $10,000 award from RainBird, to install water wise systems in their 3-phase Food Forest installation! It’s an awesome project in Santa Barbara CA, turning unused land into a model garden, to produce food for the Food Bank – the highest % of [...]

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Archive for the ‘Legumes – Peas, Beans, Fava’ Category

Keeping Your Veggie Garden Happy – Foliar Plant Care!

Summer Watering Coastal SoCal

Growing UP, 4 High Yield Summer Plants!

APRIL is for Heat Lovers! Pull back your mulches, let soil heat up, PLANT!

February 2011 Santa Barbara CA Area Garden Events!

January! New Year, clear, crisp, pristine gardening

3 Kinds of Peas & Strawberries; Onions & Garlic!

Read me at Santa Barbara View!

Farmers’ Almanac BEST PLANTING DAYS!

Gardening Tips!

Planting at the Right Time!