Here are a few tips for making sure the seedings you started inside stay alive and thrive. Seedlings should have plenty of light to prevent them from getting leggy. Grow lights should be 2 inches above seedlings. If you have a south facing window you can put your pots close to the window and rotate [...]
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Tuesday’s Tips — Seedling Success
Posted in Colorado, Garden, Garden Photography, Gardening, Gardening in Colorado, Seeds & Seedlings, tagged Damping Off, Fertilizing Seedlings, Gardening, Hardening Off, Organic Gardening, Seedlings, Thinning Seedlings on April 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Tuesday’s Tips — Seed Starting Mix & Weeding Tool
Posted in Flowers, Garden, Tuesday's Tips, Uncategorized, Vegetables, tagged Beans, Cape Cod Weeder, Garden, Garden Tools, Gardening, Inoculant, Organic, Peas, Plants, Seedlings, Seeds, Soil-less Seed Starting MIx, Vegetables on March 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Two Tuesday’s Tips in a row! We amaze ourselves. This week Mary Beth wants to tell you about her favorite tool. Last summer she slapped one in my hand and I was an instant convert. Then I’ve got some tips for starting peas and beans. Mary Beth: If I had to pick only one important [...]
Garden Workshops and Master Gardeners
Posted in Agriculture & Farming, California, Garden, Vegetables, tagged Artichoke, Backyard Orchards, California, Farm and Food Lab, Flowers, Fruit trees, Garden, Gardening, Gardening Tools, Gardening Workshops, Great Park, Home Gardens, Irvine, Master Gardeners, Orange County, Raised Bed Gardening, Seedlings, Spring, Sweet Peas, Tomatoes, Vegetable Crops, Vegetable Garden, Vegetables, Warm Season Vegetables on March 6, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Barbara: The wonderful UCCE Master Gardeners of Orange County are at it again. They’ll be presenting a series of five exciting gardening workshops March 13 — May 15 at the Farm and Food Lab in the Great Park in Irvine (details below and in the sidebar). If you live in Orange County and are a [...]
What the Lettuce Taught Me
Posted in California, Garden, Vegetables, tagged 2010, Basket Planting, California, Garden, Gardening, Lettuce, New Year, Seedlings, Tomatoes, Vegetable Garden, Vegetables on December 30, 2009 | 13 Comments »
Barbara: Like most of you, I’ve been doing a lot of end-of-the-year/beginning-of-the-new year navel gazing, which I kind of hate, but can’t stop doing. I’ve been groping around for some profound, life-changing insight, some thought that can carry me into 2010 with energy and excitement, but which I have been having the hardest time generating [...]
Garden Dreams
Posted in Block Island, Flowers, Garden, Vegetables, tagged Block Island, Blossoms, Deer, Dogs, Flowers, Garden, Gardening, Island, Ocean, Plants, Roses, Seedlings, Summer, Vegetable Garden on August 10, 2009 | 9 Comments »
Barbara: Once upon a time my parents dreamed of a place where they could live by the sea with their five children during lazy summers. So in the winter of 1964 my mom pored over the rental ads in the Sunday New York Times. She found a tiny ad for a summer cottage on Block [...]
Deer Fencing and Other Spring Happenings
Posted in Bees, Block Island, California, Flowers, Garden, Hive, Vegetables, tagged Beekeeping, Bees, Block Island, Blossoms, California, Deer, Deer Fence, Flowers, Fullerton Arboretum, Garden, Gardening, Herbs, Honeybee, Langstroth Beehive, Native Plants, Orange County, Organic, Plants, Queen Bee, Seedlings, Spring, Vegetable Garden, Vegetables on May 26, 2009 | 13 Comments »
Mary Beth: Memorial Day weekend on Block Island was a busy one and if it hadn’t started to rain I’d still be out there. The reason I was so busy was that this is the year Ray and I decided to come up with a real solution to the deer problem — well, I decided [...]
Tomato, Tomahto
Posted in Block Island, Garden, Vegetables, tagged Block Island, Island, Seaweed, Seedlings, Tomato Varieties, Tomatoes, Vegetable Garden on April 24, 2009 | 2 Comments »
MB: This is the time of year when everyone’s daydreaming about their vegetable gardens and the star of the dream is usually the tomato. Everybody has their favorite tomato — or ten. The reasons for these preferences are as numerous as the varieties of this delectable vegetable. (And don’t start with the “Is it a [...]
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