Reporting on the Great Fava Versus Wilt Experiment! Some of you have been following my fava experiment, that, per John Jeavons, favas counteract the tomato Fusarium and Verticillium Wilts fungi, hoping it would work. Issues for me were lower leaves, humidity, low spots, nearby plant water needs. I religiously watered only nearby plants. But that [...]
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Tomatoes, Wilts, Fava, Coffee Grounds
Posted in Amendments, Bone Meal, Coffee Grounds, Compost, Determinate, Disease, Fungus, Fusarium Wilt, Heirloom, Indeterminate, Manure, Nonfat Powdered Milk, Succession, Tomato, Veggies!, Verticillium Wilt, VFN, Worm Castings, tagged bean, coffee grounds, compost, cucumber, determinate, disease, fava, fusarium, germinating, green manure, indeterminate, inhibited, Jeavons, resistant, seeds, spinach, straw, successive, suppression, tolerant, tomatoes, Varieties, verticillium, weed, wilt on March 4, 2012 | 4 Comments »
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 [...]
PLANT Your First Round of Summer Veggies!!!!!
Posted in Artichoke, Bean, Beets, Broccoli, Cabbage, Carrot, Chard, Cilantro, Community Gardens, Corn, Cucumber, Design - Layout, Determinate, Disease, Eggplant, Fusarium Wilt, Indeterminate, Lettuce, Melon, Okra, Onion, Peas, Pepper, Potato, Pumpkins, Radish, Seeds, Squash, Strawberries, Summer Plants - Warm Season, Time of Year, Tomato, Turnip, Verticillium Wilt, Winter Plants - Cool Season, tagged amendment, April, artichoke, bean, beets, broccoli, bunch, cabbage, carrot, chamomile, chard, cilantro, cool-season, corn, cucumber, determinate, drainage, eggplant, flower, fusarium, gardener, gift, Greenhouse, heat, humid, indeterminate, June, lettuce, lima, lottery, lover, March, melon, mildew, Mother's Day, New Zealand, okra, onion, Peas, pepper, Pilgrim Terrace, poppy, potato, powdery, Provider, pumpkin, radish, resistant, round, seed, South, spinach, squash, starts, strawberry, succession, summer, tomatoes, transplant, turnip, verticillium, vine, wilt, winter on March 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
FIRST WEEK OF MARCH! Go get your seeds, transplants, any amendments that make you happy, clear your space, and go for it! Poke bean seeds in at the base of finishing peas, tomatoes, artichokes from transplants, corn, New Zealand spinach, cucumbers, summer and winter squash! [Pilgrim Terrace gardeners, those of you in the lottery section [...]