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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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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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Archive for the ‘Rain’ Category

January – the Gardening Delight of a New Year!

Seed Soaking/Presprouting Tips & Ideas Part 2

February 2011 Santa Barbara CA Area Garden Events!

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Farmers’ Almanac BEST PLANTING DAYS!

Gardening Tips!

Planting at the Right Time!