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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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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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Merry May Veggie Gardening to You!

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

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