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The Monthly Gardner – May – Growing Your Own Vegetables
May is the month to finish up your spring planting by focusing on those heat-loving vegetables. While many of Southern California’s native plants are beginning to shut down for the dry summer months, if you plant your vegetables now and keep them well mulched and watered, they should flourish throughout the summer and provide a [...]
Continue reading...The Monthly Gardner – March
16. March 2012
March and April are the ideal times to get your garden planted. This includes most summer annuals and perennials, warm-season and cool-season lawns, some cool-season and warm-season vegetables, and almost all permanent garden plants, such as trees, shrubs, ground covers and vines. But I would hold off planting tropicals for a couple of months until [...]
Continue reading...The Monthly Gardener – February
13. February 2012
“Buds’re bustin’ out of bushes, And the rompin’ river pushes, Ev’ry little wheel that wheels beside the mill!” Okay, Spring may not be “bustin’ out all over” as Oscar Hammerstein put it, but there are certainly enough buds beginning to make an appearance and the fact the Trader Joe’s is selling daffodils does suggest that [...]
Continue reading...January Tip: Dry-Root Planting
17. January 2012
While the better part of the country is, or will be, digging out of from under blankets of show, Southern Californians, can anticipate Spring by using their shovels to dig holes and plant any number of available “bare-root” plants. These include: roses, cane berry bushes, deciduous fruit trees, ornamental deciduous tress and a variety of [...]
Continue reading...The Monthly Gardner – November
11. November 2011
November in Southern California is the beginning of our rainy season, although, this year, it did begin a bit early. And while October is the ideal time to plant, if you haven’t already done so, November offers a window of opportunity for a number of plants, including: onions, strawberries, ground covers, a variety of bulbs [...]
Continue reading...The Monthly Gardner – October
4. October 2011
October, with its cooler days and the occasional sprinkle (our Southern California “rainy season” actually begins in November), is the ideal time to plant most perennials, with the exception of tropicals, which should be planted in late spring or early summer, and bare-root plants, which should be planted in January. The reason is simple: get [...]
Continue reading...The Monthly Gardener – September
10. September 2011
Our New Blog Because a number of my readers have asked, “What should I be doing with my garden this month?” I’ve decided to start a monthly blog post that deals with just that –– what you should be focusing on in your garden during that particular month. I thought September was a great starting [...]
Continue reading...Coffee – Great For Your Prostate & So Much More!
22. May 2011
That’s right … Mother Nature has done it again. Not only does coffee get you going in the morning, it also prevents cancer, makes terrific compost, plant fertilizer, insect repellent, slug deterrent and, would you believe, a high quality skin exfoliate and facial – just in case Estee Lauder wasn’t your cup of tea. Although [...]
Continue reading...Dangers Of Organic Gardening!
7. March 2011
As Spring is here and those who like to grow their own are preparing to do so, I had a question from a client about planting vegetables in raised beds. It appears she, like a good Girl Scout, did everything by the book: organic potting soil and fertilizer and a drip system for watering. Yet [...]
Continue reading...That Holiday Poinsettia … Grow It or Throw It?
4. January 2011
If you’re like me, you hate to throw a living plant away. But do you really want to deal with those 5 Poinsettias you bought at Trader Joes to brighten up your living room? I mean, they were only a couple of bucks … right? But still … It’s that “but still” that gets me [...]
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