Tips And Hints For Growing Easy-Care Warm-Season Crops Plantingmonths: Year-round. Spacing: Sow seed one inch apart. Rows spaced one to two feet. Thin to four inches. Special Tips: Use hoe handle to make straight row. Cover seeds with one-inch fine compost potting soil and pat down. Harvesting: 55 to 60 days. Best eaten between tiny […]
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Question from Kristina: We’re looking for a fast growing tree or tall shrub to plant in a north facing bed that will not shade the lawn. Answer from Pat: Do you like Italian cypress (Cupressus sempervirens ‘Stricta’)? I happen to love this tree and I have planted 3 of them in my garden as strategic […]
Categories : Landscape Design, Trees
Starting a New Business: Building Raised Beds for Growing Vegetables
Posted by Pat Welsh
· Monday,
October
14th,
2013
at 03:49 AM
Question: I’m a landscape designer, but business has gone down lately, so I’m starting a new business designing and building raised beds for vegetables. Many of my clients want to do this, but they don’t have the time to build the beds. Can you offer me any advice? Answer: There are several people in this […]
Categories : Garden Q & A
Question from Cat: I was wondering if you ever open your garden up for viewing. I would love to see it. I live in Trabuco Canyon, California and am an avid So Calif gardener. I travel to Great Dixter every year to take their gardenning symposiums and learn their techniques first hand. I would also […]
Gardening Question from Kathy: You helped me out a lot a few years ago with my Geranium’s. I remember many long emails with you. So, I need your expert advise on a new problem I’m having with, yes… the Geranium’s. This morning, while cleaning up some dry leaves from my plants, I noticed that in […]
Categories : Flowers
Question from Debbie: I purchased this home with orchard and there are many apple trees which I do not know how old they are… I have a drip system with bubblers on all the trees. The apple trees are dropping many fruit as you can see from the photos…. I do not know what type […]
Categories : Citrus & Fruit Trees
Question from Rachel: I’ve just purchased a Bearss lime tree. It’s supposed to be–eventually–a full sized tree, but right now it stands at about 6 feet. I picked it up yesterday from the nursery, constructed a wire basket for it (we’ve got gophers), and then my two children helped me get it in the ground […]
Categories : Citrus & Fruit Trees
Growing Plants in Containers: Dealing with Spent Soil
Posted by Pat Welsh
· Friday,
October
4th,
2013
at 03:49 AM
Question: I live in a condo. I once had a big garden, now all I have is a small sunny patio, so I grow everything in pots. I fertilize with liquid fertilizer and grow tomatoes, lettuce, flowers, and even roses. My question is this: What should I do with the old spent potting soil that […]
Categories : Garden Q & A
Question from Elizabeth: What book should I buy that goes into veggie gardening as well as fruit trees. I am not sure which one of your books I should purchase. Answer from Pat: If you live in California and do not have any of my books the one to purchase is “Pat Welsh’s Southern California […]
Categories : Citrus & Fruit Trees
Question from Lesley: Hi Pat! Thanks for all your help so far; discovering your book 2 years ago has had such a lovely and positive effect on my garden. My question is about iceland poppies, and other winter annuals. The timing of annuals in SoCal still perplexes me a bit. In your book you say […]
Categories : Flowers
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