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Blog Posts
- Greywater Project Finished! 24. October 2023
- Fruit Tree Tour 2019 10. June 2019
- Gardening Word of the Day: Mulching 18. April 2019
- Weird Biodynamic Tree Paste 18. February 2019
- Grafting Citrus Trees 7. February 2019
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- Herbs: Some Fun Facts
- How To Know If Your Food Is Organic
- How To Prune Tomato Plants
- Jamie Oliver Contest
- Learn About Varieties of Herbs
- Learn About Varieties of Tomatoes
- Lower Point Vicente Community Orchard/Garden Proposal
- Organic Vs Conventional Farming
- Picking Fruits for Your Microclimate
- SteamWeeder Video
- Tips for Growing Your Tomatoes
- Using Low Water Irrigation
- Writeindependent.org's Video: Fix Congress
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I help Lincoln Elementary’s school garden
Winter is the time to prune, revamp the beds, plant trees, strawberries, and berry brambles. Here I am helping out in Carola’s School Garden at Lincoln Elementary in Long Beach, California. Carola is a Master Gardener and a wonderful friend.
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Time to prune apricot and apple trees
I’ve been waiting for the rain and fog to stop, for some sunshine and wah-lah: finally! Now it’s time to get out the loppers and go after those apricot trees that haven’t been fruiting properly. Here’s an example of the … Continue reading
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Grapes: Flame
Check out these pictures of Flame grapes on my three-year-old vines:
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This tomato season
Because of all the cool weather this summer, the tomatoes are finally coming in late. This is the time for the bumper crop.
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Tomato Pruning 101
I noticed a lot of comments on the LA Times’ blog where people were confused about tomato pruning. Here’s the comment I posted there to help clarify: Yes! It’s hard to know which is a sucker and which is a … Continue reading
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It’s stinky, but oh so good!
I sprayed a mixture of fish emulsion and kelp this morning on the entire garden. It smells pretty foul, but it has everything the plants need. The nutrients get taken up by the leaves and the roots, and it’s got … Continue reading
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Wildness
“wilderness has virtue unto itself and needs no extraneous justification.” –The Diversity of Life, Edward O. Wilson
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Huge cauliflower!
Check out this cauliflower I harvested this morning! It weighed in at 8 pounds! It’s bigger than my head. That means I shouldn’t eat the whole thing in one sitting. Believe me, I won’t! This will make a lot of … Continue reading
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