by californiagardening | Aug 26, 2012 | Herb, Vegetable Gardening |
Hello friends I got emails from some of my friends asking me what is the right time to harvest garlic and what is the right way to store wash, cure and store garlic once harvested. Some of my friends were confused about “Should I dry it first or wash it...
by californiagardening | Jul 26, 2012 | Garden How-Tos, Vegetable Gardening |
A Big Hello! to all you gardening enthusiasts! In this blog post, you will see how Calcium deficiency affects peppers and causes them to have Blossom End Rot, which results in fruits that are rotten. We grew one Red Pepper plant in a container, which had soil left...
by californiagardening | Jul 17, 2012 | Garden How-Tos, Vegetable Gardening |
Its a lovely on-going summer here in Irvine in Southern California. Some of our containers had to be replaced, so we got down to work! We wanted to try out the newer self watering containers which claim to conserve upto 80% of the water needed for containers (which is...
by californiagardening | Sep 5, 2011 | Garden How-Tos, Insect Control, pest control, Vegetable Gardening |
Ladybugs are also known as the gardener’s friend. They are voracious eaters of vegetation-destroying pests ike aphids and whiteflies. They can devor hundreds, if not thousands of whitefly larvae and aphids a day. Here’s a beautiful ladybug on a eggplant...
by californiagardening | Aug 16, 2011 | Vegetable Gardening |
These twins were very interesting to watch. if someone knows the biological (or botanical!) term for this phenomenon, please share it with us! These came from the Early Girl tomato plant we have. The Early Girl tomato plant is one of the most vigorously growing tomato...
