![]() This is Southern California’s second Spring! Time to plant your winter garden, all the Brassicas, that’s, cabbage, brocs, Brussels sprouts, cauliflower, collards, kales, plus celery, chard and peas, peas, peas! All kinds! And what I call the ‘littles,’ the veggies you plant all year, beets, bunch onions (the ones that don’t bulb), carrots (bonemeal yes, fresh manure no), radish, spinach, arugula, and, especially, all kinds of lettuces! Plant gift plants or bowls or baskets for the holidays! Start making holiday gifts, herbal wreaths, powdered herbs, pretty vinegars and oils, shampoos, soaps, or candles! Purple Broccoli, Bright Lights Chard, Cauliflower, Yellow Mangetout Snow Peas, Radishes or Beets of all colors, ‘Licous Red Lettuces! Posted in Brassicas, Broccoflower, Broccoli, Brussels Sprouts, Cabbage, Cauliflower, Celery, Collards, Hydrozone, Kale, Kohlrabi, Lettuce, Peas, Water, Winter, tagged Acid, Alkaline, amend, Aphid, artichoke, arugula, axils, basket, beans, beets, biodiversity, bird, bonemeal, borage, bowl, Bright, broccoli, Brussels Sprouts, bunch, cabbage, California, candle, carrots, cauliflower, celery, chard, chill, cleanup, collards, Compost, cut and come again, December, Disease, Fall, flies, Flowers, Frost, fungi, gift, gopher, greens, habitat, Harvest, heads, herbal, holidays, hydrozone, insect, Integrated Pest Management, IPM, June, Kale, layer, leaf, lettuce, Lights, lizard, mangetout, manure, mildew, Mulch, mycorrhiza, North, Nov, November, Oct, October, Oil, onion, Peas, pest, phosphorus, pilgrim, planting, Pollinator, potato, powder, prechill, radish, raised bed, Red, runner, seaweed, seed, seedling, shampoo, Sidedress, sluggo, slugs, snails, snow, soap, Soil, South, Southern, spinach, Spring, sprout, strawberry, sunny, terrace, test, tomatoes, transplant, University of California, vinegar, Water, weather, white, wildflower, Winter, Worm Castings, wreath, yellow on October 1, 2010| Welcome to the Beauty of October Planting! Just a slow drip from a water hose, slightly propped up on a rock or over your favorite water thirsty plant, will be helpful. ![]() Please ask your blog readers to add water to their garden, deck, patio, etc. We NEED to support bird populations, as they are increasingly under stress.īirds are very thirsty. Take a look at today’s bird column in the News-Press, explains what is going on. The writer says: We are stunned at the number of birds (new species we haven’t seen before) in our garden habitat. Or clean part of window and leave an X unwashed. Sometimes you can find decals for this purpose at feed stores (La Cumbre Feed or Island Feed & Seed in the Santa Barbara/Goleta area), or go online:Īlso, let windows get dirty and stay dirty. This just in from Santa Barbara Organic Garden Club: Personally, I enjoy their chatter and just seeing them. ![]() They sometimes scratch up the topsoil a tad, allowing nutrients to seep in. Birds are wonderful for our gardens! They eat seeds then deposit them randomly, mini fertilizations we get amazing volunteers! They eat all kinds of insects, keep infestations from happening or reduce them. ![]()
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