Tips And Hints For Growing Easy-Care Warm-Season Crops Planting months: March-July Spacing: thin plants to 12 iches, rows 2 feet Special Tips: Soak seeds overnight Harvesting:Cut top sprouts 4 to 5 inches long, plants regrow, are invasive inland. Steam, stir fry, or eat raw. May continue to grow year-round. Recommended Varieties: just one kind. Step-By-Step […]
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Gardening Question from Dave: I have a very reliable and steady source of horse manure (1 quarter horse, 1 draft horse and 1 shetland pony) and an equally reliable source of pine needles. Using the old compost addage “something green and something brown” can I combine the two to create useful compost? Answer from […]
Categories : Composting, Fertilizer
Gardening Question: In the rose-pro method of caring for roses in your book, it calls for sulfate of potash (0-0-22) which I can’t find in ANY nursery or hardware store around here. I did find Sul-Po-Mag which has the same NPK numbers, but also contains sulphur and magnesium. Can I use this instead? Answer from […]
Categories : Fertilizer, Month by Month Gardening
Native Plants of the Southern California Coast
Posted by Pat Welsh
· Thursday,
March
12th,
2015
at 03:49 AM
Southern California is not a desert. Only the area east of the mountains can correctly be characterized as a desert having plants we know as desert plants. The coastal zones of California, west of the mountains have a Mediterranean climate, which means dry summers with brilliant sunshine and blue skies, and almost all rainfall concentrated […]
Categories : California Natives
Question from Kathryn: What would you recommend as the best citrus west of the freeway excluding lemons and limes? A particular tangerine?? Answer from Pat: I recently ate a Satsuma tangerine grown in a local garden (Zone 24.) It was one of the best I have ever eaten. Satsuma’s are always choice, but this was […]
Categories : Citrus & Fruit Trees
Vegetables, Eucalyptus, Clay Soil, and Fruit Trees
Posted by Pat Welsh
· Tuesday,
March
10th,
2015
at 03:49 AM
Question from Christian: I live in Del Mar near Fairbanks Ranch, and I’d like to get some of your thoughts on gardening and adding some new organic fruits, herbs, and vegetables to my house to feed us! My goal is to turn a portion of my property into a full blown garden. The challenges are […]
Question: I heard you speak at the Fallbrook Garden Club. I ordered your most current book tonight. Which of your books (or is there a book that isn’t yours that you recommend?) would have the most information on drought-resistant plants for us in Fallbrook who don’t have much water? I assume succulents and cacti are […]
Native Plants Of Southern California’s Coastal Zones
Posted by Pat Welsh
· Friday,
March
6th,
2015
at 03:49 AM
These are plants adapted to Mediterranean climate, drought-resistant plants, that can survive in coastal California zones on natural rainfall in winter alone. Pinus torreyana—Torrey Pine (a source of pine nuts for local native American tribes.) Coreopsis maritima—Sea dahlia. (Cannot abide summer water in gardens.) Encelia californica—California coastal shrub daisy (native to coastal southern California. (E. […]
Categories : California Natives
Question from Fred: We took your advice and have a number of Sweet 100 plants in large containers in our yard. Everything looks good except we now have a problem w/bird droppings on those plants w/tomato cages. What can we do to stop the birds from perching on the metal cages or, alternatively, from dropping […]
Categories : Garden Q & A, Vegetables & Fruits
Question from Jill: I recently saw you speak in Laguna Beach and I enjoyed every second of it! I grew up on a dairy farm in the central valley and we had our own garden. I left the valley when I went to college and after a few degrees and a few years of work, […]
Categories : Fertilizer, Soils
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