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January – the Gardening Delight of a New Year!

Posted in Amendments, Community Gardens, Compost, Fertilizer - Sidedressing, Foliar Feeding, Fish - Kelp, Frost, Freeze, Greenhouse, Interplant, Rain, Seeds, Weather, Winter Plants - Cool Season, tagged artichoke, asparagus, Atascadero, bareroot, basil, Bay Laurel Nursery, beets, broccoli, cabbage, carrots, cauliflower, celery, Chandler, chard, cosmos, day length, Digital Seed, Farmers Almanac, fava, February, floating row cover, frost map, glove, Greenhouse, harvest, horseradish, impatiens, interplant, January, kale, kohlrabi, lettuce, maintenance, March, marigolds, Nursery, onion, parsley, Peas, peppers, potatoes, radish, rain, salvia, Seascape, seeds, Sequoia, sidedress, spring, starts, strawberries, summer, tomatoes, transplant, turnips, understory, winter, zucchini on December 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Harvest, Replant, Maintenance, Spring Preps, SEEDS! Keep harvesting! Plant consideringly. That means, summer planting starts in March. January, February are generally cold, so slow growth though day length is getting longer. Keep in mind what space you want available in March for the March starts. If you are a winter plant lover gardener, one way [...]

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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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Seed Soaking/Presprouting Tips & Ideas Part 2

Posted in Asparagus, Cabbage, Carrot, Celery, Cilantro, Community Gardens, Corn, Germinate, Lettuce, Onion, Parsley, Parsnip, Peas, PreSoak, PreSprout, Rain, Seeds, Squash, Veggies!, Watering, Weather, tagged absorption, agent, asparagus, cabbage, Carl Wilson, carrot, celery, cilantro, cling, clipper, coat, Cooperative Extension, coriander, corn, cover, Denver, dry, fennel, forecast, furrow, gel, germination, horticulture, hot, humus, lattice, lettuce, mist, moist, onion, paper, parsley, pea, planting, pre-germinate, presoak, presprout, sandpaper, scarify, seed, seed tape, seedling, shade cloth, shell, slice, small, solution, sow, squash, squeeze, surface, technique, towel, viable, water, weather, wet on February 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Have you already seen Part 1? Why soak or presprout, all about seeds, how seed coats function; soaking times, seed soaking solutions. Scarify Seeds Scarify pea seeds to speed up absorption of water, and therefore, germination. Rub them between sheets of coarse sandpaper, or clip them with a nail clipper by making a slice through the seed [...]

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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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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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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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Protect Your Veggies from Freezing! Cover and tuck ‘em in!

Posted in Bolt Resistant/Slow Bolting, Broccoli, Brussel Sprouts, Carrot, Cauliflower, Frost, Freeze, Greenhouse, Kale, Leeks, Parsnip, Varieties, Winter Plants - Cool Season, tagged 32, air, August, basil, black, blanket, bolt, broccoli, Brussels, burlap, cabbage, cage, calm, cauliflower, chair, chaise, clear, clothes, cloud, cold, coldest, compost, cover, crystal, curtain, damage, Day, daybreak, drop, dry, duration, early, eaves, Fahrenheit, farmers, fertilize, floating, forecast, freeze, frost, Greenhouse, growth, hard, harvest, hot-cap, ice, insulate, kale, killing, leeks, lettuce, market, mature, mulch, N, newspaper, night, Nitrogen, northern, onions, parsnip, Peas, pepper, pin, pot, potato, protect, radish, root, row, sale, season, seed, settle, sheet, shop, sprouts, stalk, sugar, summer, sun, survival, tarp, taste, temperature, tender, thrift, time, tomato, towel, tree, trim, under, water, weather, wet, wind, windbreak, winter, yard on December 3, 2010 | 5 Comments »

Cold season things to know about your veggies! Fertilize. Healthy plants can withstand more cold. But. From August on, if you anticipate a cold winter, avoid applying fertilizer with Nitrogen, apply at half your summer rate, until after the last frost, to prevent a flush of tender growth that can be damaged by the cold. [...]

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Archive for the ‘Weather’ Category

January – the Gardening Delight of a New Year!

Divine December, Winter’s June here in SoCal!

Seed Soaking/Presprouting Tips & Ideas Part 2

February 2011 Santa Barbara CA Area Garden Events!

February! SOIL & SEED Month!

January! New Year, clear, crisp, pristine gardening

Read me at Santa Barbara View!

Farmers’ Almanac BEST PLANTING DAYS!

Gardening Tips!

Planting at the Right Time!