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Celery is one of the top five veggies listed that you should buy organic...but even better is to grow and harvest your o...
05/14/2025

Celery is one of the top five veggies listed that you should buy organic...but even better is to grow and harvest your own!! Here's how... Amend your bed with both Cedar Grove and organic chicken compost. I plant 23 celery starts in a 4' by 8' bed...8 plants down each side set 8 inches in and one foot apart, and 7 plants down the middle off set from the side rows. This gives them a little more room. My favorite variety is Tango. It comes in jumbo packs of 6. You can gently separate each cell into 2 and then cut off extra starts so you're planting 1 plant per space. This is very important! If you plant a cluster of starts you will never get mature celery, just small stems that are hollow. I border my bed with marigolds to help prevent aphids. Once your celery is big enough to harvest cut the outer ring of stems individually at an angle. Celery overwinters and grows for a full year, and don't waste the leaf material! It makes delicious pesto!!

Planting lots of sweet and hot peppers this week! Peppers are special. They get not only Cedar Grove Compost but chic...
05/05/2025

Planting lots of sweet and hot peppers this week! Peppers are special. They get not only Cedar Grove Compost but chicken compost as well AND Gardener and Bloom Organic Tomato/ Veggie Fertilizer. Turn your bed with both composts. Dig your planting holes. This is a 3' wide bed so I stagger a three, then two planting pattern spaced 12" apart. In an 8' bed you can get 20 plants, and in this 6' bed, 15 plants. Add 1/4 cup of the fertilizer in each hole and mix well. Plant your starts sinking a little deep for strong root growth. Put 3' stakes in for support for later and sprinkle Sluggo around the base of each plant. My favorite sweet pepper is Sweet Banana because it does turn red! Hot pepper favorites are Serranos, cayennes, super chilis, and jalapenos. Enjoy! Peppers are so fun!😊

No more frosty nights ahead so it's a go for planting tomatoes and tomatillos. Both crops have the same spacing and sup...
04/27/2025

No more frosty nights ahead so it's a go for planting tomatoes and tomatillos. Both crops have the same spacing and support. Amend your bed with Cedar Grove Compost. Starts are planted 9" in from the sides of the beds and spaced 2 feet apart. Dig your hole deep and stir in a half cup of Gardener and Bloom Tomato Veggie Fertilizer. Plant your starts deep, burying 1/3 of their height. This will promote strong root growth. Install your supports at the time you plant. My favorite tomato to grow is the Juliet Red Grape! It has great flavor, super high production, and never gets blossom end rot.

You can direct seed green onions by seed from March through August! First, I amended my bed with Cedar Grove and organi...
04/17/2025

You can direct seed green onions by seed from March through August! First, I amended my bed with Cedar Grove and organic chicken composts. Next, make your two finger furrows spaced 3" or 4" apart. In a 3' wide bed you can fit 9 to 11 rows. Sprinkle your seed sparingly, cover over and tamp with your rake. To keep animals from digging cover the bed with netting using bamboo stakes and notebook clips and water. Keep damp until germination.

Lettuces can be planted mid March through mid July for summer and fall harvest. I amended my bed with a combination of ...
04/13/2025

Lettuces can be planted mid March through mid July for summer and fall harvest. I amended my bed with a combination of Cedar Grove and chicken composts. There are 4 rows of lettuces in this 4' wide bed spaced 11" apart. I plant a row of purple orach between the rows of lettuces. These help support the leafy lettuces to keep the leaf material off the soil and also provide you with another green to harvest as you're cutting. Dig your 2 finger furrows just 1/8" deep for the lettuces and lightly sprinkle with seed. I use about 1 gm of seed per 8' of row. My first row of lettuce is 4" in from the side of the bed. Cover over and dig your 2 finger furrow for orach at 9" from the side and 1/2" deep. Sprinkle seed and cover over. Dig your next lettuce furrow at 15", apply seed, and dig your middle orach furrow at 22". Apply seed, cover over. Repeat this process from the other side for 2 more lettuce rows and 1 more orach row. Cover over, lightly tamp with a rake, use netting if you need to protect your bed from cats or squirrels digging, sprinkle with Sluggo and water. Keep damp until seeds germinate. I'll post again when it's time for the first cutting...mid to late May.😊

Carrots are so fun! Especially the "carrots with character"...first pic!! Planted a bed of carrots today which c...
04/12/2025

Carrots are so fun! Especially the "carrots with character"...first pic!! Planted a bed of carrots today which can be planted anytime from March through June for summer and fall harvest. I prepped my bed with Cedar Grove Compost. Then made 2 finger furrows a quarter inch deep. The rows are spaced 4 to 5 inches apart starting at 2 inches from the inside edge. You can get 9 rows in a 4 foot wide bed which will yield 100 to 110 pounds of carrots. Smooth over your bed then tamp with a rake. Keep religiously damp until seeds germinate which can take up to 21 days this time of year. I cover my bed with netting to keep neighborhood squirrels and cats from digging, and apply Sluggo sprinkled on the bed when planted to prevent baby slugs from mowing down carrot starts as they emerge. Thin baby plants to 2" to 2.5" inches apart and enjoy!! And don't toss the carrot tops! They make a delicious pesto when partnered with a stronger tasting herb like rosemary, sage, mint, cilantro... I love it when I can harvest tops and bottoms!!😊

You can direct seed radishes from March into September! First, I amended my bed with Cedar Grove Compost. Next, make y...
04/09/2025

You can direct seed radishes from March into September! First, I amended my bed with Cedar Grove Compost. Next, make your two finger furrows spaced 3 to 4" apart. In a 3' wide bed you can fit 9 to 11 rows. Sprinkle your seed sparingly, cover over and tamp with your rake. To keep animals from digging cover the bed with netting using bamboo stakes and notebook clips. Sprinkle bed with Sluggo then water. As soon as radishes are up thin to 2" apart. Enjoy!

Beets can be planted March through the end of June for summer and fall harvest. In a 4 foot wide bed you can plant 6 ro...
04/06/2025

Beets can be planted March through the end of June for summer and fall harvest. In a 4 foot wide bed you can plant 6 rows spaced 7 inches apart. Make your two finger furrows a half inch deep. Sprinkle beet seeds. I use 3 gms of seed per row depending on variety. Cover over, tamp with a rake and keep watered evenly until seeds sprout. Once beets are two inches tall, thin to two to three inches apart, and you'll have beautiful beets all season!

Spent some time today planting one of my favorite hardy greens...Purple Orach. This green tastes very much like spinach...
03/30/2025

Spent some time today planting one of my favorite hardy greens...Purple Orach. This green tastes very much like spinach, but it has a much longer harvest time from an early spring planting. These beautifully delicious plants grow 5' tall! I prepped my bed by turning under organic Cedar Grove compost along with organic chicken compost. I made five, 2 finger furrows about 3/8 inch deep. The first two were made 4" from each side and one right down the middle of a 4' by 8' bed. Rows 4 and 5 are at 13" in from each side. Sprinkle seeds liberally, cover over furrows, then tamp with a rake. Water and apply organic Sluggo, and I cover my bed with netting attached to bamboo stakes to keep critters from digging. Thin starts to 8 to 9 inches apart when they are 2 to 3" tall. You can use the thinned ones as baby greens. Enjoy!!

Mustards can be planted mid March through early April. You can also plant for a fall/winter crop mid to late August. I...
03/26/2025

Mustards can be planted mid March through early April. You can also plant for a fall/winter crop mid to late August. I amended my bed with a combination of Cedar Grove and chicken composts. There are 5 rows in this 4' wide bed spaced 9" apart. Dig your 2 finger furrows just 1/4" deep and very lightly sprinkle with mustard seed. I used wild garden mustards from Territorial mixed with Ed Hume's Southern Giant and Red Giant. Cover over, lightly tamp with a rake, use netting if you need to protect your bed from cats or squirrels digging, sprinkle with Sluggo and water. When the plants are 2" tall thin to 8 or 9" apart, and enjoy the baby greens in a salad!

Yesterday was St.Patty's Day, so it's now time to plant sugar snap peas, a very high maintenance veggie to grow but eve...
03/18/2025

Yesterday was St.Patty's Day, so it's now time to plant sugar snap peas, a very high maintenance veggie to grow but everyone loves them, so...I amended my beds with Cedar Grove Compost. Prior to planting I soaked my pea seeds in water for 3 hours. The first row is 1" in from the side then every 3" after that. Pea seeds are spaced 2" apart in the rows. Lay out all your seed. I used 4.7 oz of Territorial's Cascadia bush for this 3' by 8' foot bed. I use a combination of 4 round 5' tall hand made tomato cages and heavy duty 4' tall stakes down the sides for support, so I set these in place after I lay out seed. Push seeds down to your first knuckle, 3/4" to 1". Now brush over your bed to fill in the holes, and sprinkle Sluggo organic slug control. Finish by watering.

Today is a great day to fertilize your blueberry plants to promote nice big berry growth! I use organic Gardener and Bl...
03/18/2025

Today is a great day to fertilize your blueberry plants to promote nice big berry growth! I use organic Gardener and Bloom Rhody and Azalea food. For well established large bushes I sprinkle 3 cups around the root zone. Smaller shrubs get 1.5 to 2 cups, and fairly new plants get 3/4 to 1 cup. Mix the fertilizer into your soil or wood chips with a cultivator and water in thoroughly. Repeat this process late May to early June.

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