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HARVEST, the Return on Your Garden Sweat Equity!

Posted in All Season Plants, Bean, Beets, Broccoli, Community Gardens, Corn, Cucumber, Disease, Eggplant, Harvest, Lettuce, Melon, Pepper, Pests, Radish, Seeds, SeedSaving, Squash, Tomato, Veggies!, Watering, Watermelon, tagged abundance, all season, Aubergine, baking, basket, bean, beets, birds, blossom, bolt, brinjal, broccoli, bugs, can, cantaloupe, carrot, cob, compost, corn, crisp, crookneck, crop, cucumber, cuke, damage, dill, disease, dry, eggplant, elders, farm, Foodbank, freeze, fresh, fridge, garden, green, growth, hairy, harvest, herbs, Hollister, husband, hybrid, India, Indira, juice, kernel, leaf, lettuce, Mahanandi, mice, Modoc, Neighborhood Food Exchange, organic, overripe, pepper, pest, pickle, pickling, Pilgrim Terrace, pod, Portesuello, preserve, pull, radish, recipe, Red, refrigerate, salad, Santa Barbara, seed, seedy, share, shiny, shouldersoil, side shoot, silk, slip, small, spade fork, split, squash, starch, steam, stew, stuffing, summer, sweat equity, temple, tender, tendril, thump, tomatoes, traditional, veggies, Vijay, water, watermelon, white, wilt, winter, zucchini, zuch on July 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Yummerlicous basket of summer veggies grown near Mahanandi, a peaceful temple town in India. Indira and her Husband Vijay share the traditional recipes of their families. Brinjals, btw, are eggplants! Each of your plants has special harvest needs and techniques to get continuing excellent returns! Be gentle in closely planted areas. Leaf damage opens your plant to diseases [...]

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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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Mulching/Composting in Place – Some Like it HOT!

Posted in Amendments, Bean, Beets, Carrot, Chard, Companion Plant, Compost, Cucumber, Disease, Eggplant, Fusarium Wilt, Green Beans, Heat Tolerant, Jicama, Lettuce, Manure, Melon, Mildew, Mulch, Mycorrhizae, Okra, Onion, Pepper, Pests, Pumpkins, Radish, Raised Beds, Snails & Slugs, Soil, Squash, Straw Bale, Strawberries, Summer Plants - Warm Season, Teas- Compost, Manure, Worm, Tomato, Turnip, Veggies!, Verticillium Wilt, Watering, Watermelon, Worm Castings, tagged air, bale, bean, beet, berm, bugs, cage, canopy, capture, carrot, chard, chop and drop, coastal, community, companion, compost, cucumber, debris, degradable, disease, dry, earth, eggplant, erosion, feed store, free, fungi, fusarium, garden, germinating, grass, habitat, heat, hillside, hot, humidity, inoculate, jicama, kitchen, layer, leaves, lettuce, light, living, manure, marine, Mediterranean, melon, mildew, moist, mulch, mycorrhizal, okra, onion, organic, organism, overwintering, pepper, pest, Pilgrim Terrace, pine needle, Plant, pumpkin, purslane, radish, rainwater, raised bed, Red, redwood, root, salad, seed, slug, SoCal, Soil, Southern, sprout, squash, staw, strawberry, sunny, sweet, tea, terrace, tolerant, tomato, transplant, trellis, turnip, verticillium, water, weed, wilt, wind, winter, worm, wriggler, yarrow, zone, zucchini on June 11, 2011 | 2 Comments »

I used to be a total mulcher, covered my whole veggie garden. I’ve adjusted my coastal SoCal mulch* thinking to match the plant! Same goes for composting in place. That’s a good idea for some areas of your garden, other areas not at all! If you are coastal SoCal, in the marine layer zone, your mulch, or composting in place, may [...]

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JUNE! Harvest and Don’t Stop Planting!

Posted in Arugula, Basil, Bean, Beets, Biodiversity, Carrot, Chard, Cilantro, Corn, Cucumber, Design - Layout, Eggplant, Green Beans, Herbs - Culinary, Medicinal Food Magic!, Jicama, Lettuce, Melon, Okra, Pepper, Pumpkins, Radish, Squash, Succession, Summer Plants - Warm Season, Time of Year, Tomato, Turnip, Watermelon, tagged April, August, basil, beans, beets, camping, carrots, chard, cilantro, cook, cool, corn, cucs, cucumber, decrease, dehydrate, fall, family, flower, frost, gardener, growth, harvest, heat, hibiscus, hollyhock, hot, jambalaya, jicama, June, may, melons, mid-June, month, New Zealand, night, October, okra, peppers, planting, pod, production, pumpkins, radish, raw, salad, seeds, snack, spinach, squashes, star, steam, stew, store, succession, summer, tomatoes, traditional, transplants, turnips, weather, winter, year round on May 31, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Cucumber Flowers June is another grand month for planting, more heat, fast growth. Plant in spots that have already finished; plant for succession, a continued harvest of your favorites! If you couldn’t take advantage of April or May, step up to it now! Seeds are good, transplants are faster if your summer palate is salivating! [...]

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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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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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Tomatoes & the Wilts – Part 1

Posted in Amendments, Artichoke, Basil, Bat - Seabird Guano, Bean, Beets, Cucumber, Disease, Disease Resistant, Early Blight, Eggplant, Fava, Fusarium Wilt, Pepper, Potato, Raised Beds, Raspberry, Rhubarb, Straw Bale, Strawberries, Tomato, Varieties, Verticillium Wilt, VFN, Watering, Watermelon, tagged 1500, 18th, AAS, Ace, All America Selections, artichoke, Aztec, balance, bale, basil, bat, bed, beet, Better Boy, Big Beef, black, black plastic, blog, bloom, blotch, box, broad bean, brown, CA, cat, Celebrity, century, Champion, coastal, cool, crop, cucumber, cut, damp, daybreak, die, dog, dry, dry farm, Early Girl, eggplant, Europe, farm, farmer, fatality, fava, First Lady, Floramerica, flower, fold, fruit, fungus, fusarium, German, Green Bean Connection, ground, guano, hands, hay, healthy, heat, heirloom, Husky Gold, Husky Red, Inca, infected, Italian Gold, Jet Star, June gloom, leaves, length, local, lower, lowest, manure, May gray, Miracle Sweet, myth, N, nematode, nightshade, Nitrogen, one-cut prune, peach, pepper, Pink Girl, Plant, poisonous, post, potatoes, raised, raspberries, remove, resistant, restore, rhubarb, Roma, root, rose, Santa Barbara, saving, seabird, shrub, small, Soil, solarization, South America, space, spot, stem, straw, strawberries, sucker, summer, SunGold, Sunstart, Super Sweet 100, susceptible, tap, tip, tomato, tree, Ultra Sweet, variety, vegetable, veggie, verticillium, Verticillium Wilt, VF, VFN, Viva Italia, warm, warn, wash, water, watermelon, weather, werewolf, werewolves, wilt, windborne, wolf on March 18, 2011 | 3 Comments »

Wolf Peach!!!! Did you know – our tomato originated in South America and was originally cultivated by the Aztecs and Incas, came to Europe in the 1500s. People were warned not to eat them until the 18th century! Wolf Peach comes from German werewolf myths that said deadly nightshade was used to summon werewolves! ‘Tis [...]

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Pumpkins & DollarWise, from Grocery to Garden!

Posted in Bean, Cabbage, Carrot, Celery, Cucumber, Eggplant, Event!, Garlic, Green Beans, Heirloom, Hybrid, Nematode, Onion, Peas, Pepper, Potato, Pumpkins, Seeds, Squash, Tomato, Veggies!, Watermelon, Yam, tagged 90%, anise, bargain, bean, bite, bulb, cabbage, carrot, celery, clove, colonial, cost, crust, cucumber, dollarwise, edible, effective, eggplant, farmers market, filling, flower, freckles, garden, garlic, ginger, Greek, green, greens, grocery, Halloween, heirloom, horseradish, hybrid, Lane Farms, largest, local, medicine, melon, Native Americans, nematode, onion, organic, Pat Veretto, peanuts, Peas, pepon, pepper, pie, pod, popcorn, potassium, pumpkin, radiation, roadside, roasted, root, season, seed, sesame, set, snack, snake, Soil, spice, spring, sprout, squash, stand, tomatoe, tuber, untreated, vegetable, Vitamin A, water, watermelon, wheat berries, word, yam on October 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Fat Pumpkins & Fun Hay Rides, Lane Farms, Goleta CA Happy Halloween! Pumpkins were once recommended for removing freckles and curing snake bites! Pumpkin flowers are edible. Pumpkins are 90% water. Pumpkins are used for feed for animals. Pumpkin seeds can be roasted as a snack. Native Americans used pumpkin seeds for food and medicine. [...]

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Archive for the ‘Watermelon’ Category

Keeping Your Veggie Garden Happy – Foliar Plant Care!

Mulching/Composting in Place – Some Like it HOT!

JUNE! Harvest and Don’t Stop Planting!

Merry May Veggie Gardening to You!

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

Tomatoes & the Wilts – Part 1

Pumpkins & DollarWise, from Grocery to Garden!

Read me at Santa Barbara View!

Farmers’ Almanac BEST PLANTING DAYS!

Gardening Tips!

Planting at the Right Time!