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Growing Yukon Gold potatoes in raised beds
Growing fresh and delicious potatoes is not only easy but very rewarding. We started our Yukon gold potatoes from seed potatoes which we bought at our local gardening store. From December to January and no later than February are ideal months to plant seed potatoes in...
Growing LOTS of Strawberries in Strawberry Grow Bags.
I have fond memories of picking strawberries as a kid and eating them freshly plucked. Nothing was more delectable than freshly plucked strawberries straight off the plant. In today?s episode we will look at an easy solution to grow strawberries in grow bags pictured...
Growing Potatoes in Containers or Pots
It?s November, the month to remind us to be thankful for all that we have. So, I would like to start this blog by saying I?m thankful for all the different ways I can eat potatoes and nothing can replace the taste of home-grown fresh potatoes. Growing fresh potatoes...
California Garden – September 2019 Garden Tour
Welcome to our new California garden in the month of September. We will go over the progress that we have made in our new garden, followed by some harvests we made this month and look at some cool gardening products. Progress/Setting up our new California garden We...
Important Announcement From California Gardening & some Summer Vegetable Harvests
The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies ? Gertrude Jekyll. We are excited to share with our you tube viewers and gardening enthusiasts who visit our blog that California gardening is moving. Drum rolls, moving to a newer location with a larger...
California Garden Tour July 2019
Welcome to California garden in the month of July. Our garden is alive with beautiful flowers, bounty of fruits and vegetables as summer is alive. We will start with our garden tour, look at some harvests we made this month, go over some things to do in your garden,...
How To Grow Broccoli – Green Magic Hybrid Broccoli
Broccoli is a vegetable that you either hate or love. Growing up I recall my mom always say ?Eat your broccoli, it?s healthy for you? and I used to make all sorts of excuses to avoid eating it. And now my adult version absolutely loves it. I love to cut broccoli...
California Garden – June Garden Tour – Gardening Tips & Tricks
Welcome to California garden in the month of June. Our garden is alive with beautiful flowers, bounty of fruits and vegetables as summer sets in. We will start with our garden tour, look at some harvests we made this month, go over some things to do in your garden,...
5 Best Vegetables for Your Edible Container Garden
?The tiniest garden is often the loveliest? ? Vita Sackville West. If you are live in an apartment or have a small yard and yearn to grow your own produce, fret not. Don?t let limited space or a tiny backyard bog you down and prevent you from trying out your green...
California Gardening Garden Tour – May 2019 Organic Gardening Tips & Advice
The days are getting longer, you can feel the warmth of the sun, smell the fresh air, hear the sweet melodious chirping of the birds and this means it's that time of the year, start your summer vegetables, if you haven't already. In today's episode we look at the...
Garden Potpourri Episode 2 – Gardening Tips, Hacks & More!
Welcome to Episode 2 of the Garden Potpourri series. In today's video we provide you lots of gardening tips and advice on how to do some common DIY things in your garden. We begin with the GOR200 Gorilla Garden Cart tire assembly. Your gorilla cart or wheelbarrow...
Cheap & Easy DIY Raised Bed Garden – No Tools Needed
In today's video we look at how easy it is to build a cheap, easy DIY raised bed garden with almost no tools needed. What you need Corner Posts - 2Wood or the sides - we recommend 2x8inch natural wood like Douglas Fir wood or...
California Spring Garden Tour April 2019 – Gardening Tips & More
Welcome to the Spring California Garden Tour in the month of April 2019. The garden is alive with spring and summer vegetables. We have a lot of gardening tips, gardening advice, things for you to do in your garden and a lot more in today's garden tour. We first take...
Growing Beetroot or Beets In Your Vegetable Garden – How To Grow Beet or Beetroot
Learn how to grow beets or beet root plants in your vegetable garden. We show you show to grow beets from seeds, how to transplant them to containers or raised beds, how to care for your beetroot plants. Beet or Beetroot is an easy to grow vegetable in your garden....
Growing eggplants in containers
Eggplants are fun to grow. The Little Prince variety of eggplant from Renee's Seeds are one of the best varieties you can grow in your home garden. Container Little Prince Eggplant The Little Prince eggplant is suited for growing in containers. Although you can grow...
The February Garden Tour
Welcome to the California garden in the month of February. We have a lot going on the garden and we will cover the following: Garden tour - Take a tour of the beautiful California Garden here in Irvine, Southern California, Zone 10. We will look at the raised beds...
Garden Potpourri – Episode 1
In the garden potpourri series, we bring to you a potpourri of gardening topics. We try to provide you with gardening tips and gardening advice in this series. Starting with Episode 1 of the Garden Potpourri series, we cover: In...
The January 2019 Garden
In today's episode we look at our Southern California Garden in the beautiful city of Irvine, Zone 10. We have the following parts in today's episode: Garden tour - Our garden tour includes a tour of our raised beds, all the vegetables we are growing in our raised...
Growing Pineapples Part 2
Continuing our journey on growing pineapples at home, we show you how Part 2 of easy it is to grow pineapple plants in containers. We go over the process of showing you the mother pineapple plant as well as a different pineapple variety. We also show you how to cut a...
California Garden – December Garden Tour – Gardening Tips, Harvests & More!
Welcome to the California Garden in the month of December 2018. We have a lot of gardening tips, advice, plenty of harvests, some things to do and a review of some gardening products. From all of us at California Gardening, we wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy...
Starting seeds and fertilizing seedlings
Today, we look at starting seeds and fertilizing seedlings. We show you how to create the perfect seed starting mix using coco coir or peat moss, perlite or vermiculite, compost and worm castings. Starting seeds in seed starting mix These gardening tips will help you...
Welcome To The California Garden In November – Gardening Tips, Ideas, Hacks & More!
Let's take a tour of the Southern California garden, here in Irvine, CA in the month of November 2018. California Gardening strives to offer you the best gardening tips and tricks via the monthly gardening series episodes. Ivy Gourd Harvest We begin the episode with a...
Calcium Products – What is calcium and how to use calcium in gardening
Calcium is a very important micro nutrient which is essential for plant growth. Other than the primary nutrients, which are Nitrogen, Phosphorus and Potassium, Calcium is a very important nutrient that plants need for optimum growth. Calcium products We look at...
Compact Bush Cucumber : How To Grow Bush Slicer Cucumbers
Cucumbers are of various types. There are vining cucumbers and then there are compact bush type cucumber plabnts. Today we will look at growing a bush type compact cucumber plant in containers. This, bush cucumber variety is called bush slicer cucumber. The seeds we...
Welcome To The October California Garden – Gardening Tips, Advice & A Lot More!
Happy Halloween to all our viewers! In today's episode we will look at the California Garden in the city of Irvine, Zone 10. October 2018 Garden We begin with a garden tour, we look at all the harvests we made this month, we look at some things for you to do in your...
Growing Anaheim Chilli Peppers – How To Grow Anaheim/New Mexico.California Chillies
Today, we look at growing Anaheim Chilli Peppers in the garden. The Anaheim Chilli Pepper is also known as New Mexico Chillies or the California Chile. Anaheim Chilli Peppers The Anaheim pepper is a mild variety of the cultivar New Mexico #9 and commonly grown outside...
You Can Do It – How To Make Chilli Powder From Harvested Chilli Peppers / Chillies
In today's blog post we describe how you can use freshly harvested chillies from your garden and prepare chilli powder. Chilli powder is best made from hot chilli varieties like Cayenne Pepper, Black Cobra Pepper, etc. After harvesting your hot chillies, wash them...
The California Garden In September 2018 – Tour, Gardening Tips & More
Welcome to the September 2018 garden. September Garden Garden tour - Take a tour of the beautiful California Garden here in Irvine, Southern California, Zone 10. We will look at the raised beds and containers Harvests - We then show you harvests like peppers,...
How To Grow Winter Melon Or Ash Gourd In Grow Bags
Ash gourds belong to the Cucurbitaceae plant family which relates to cucumbers, melons and are native to South Asia and Southeast Asia. They require full sun and thrive in well-draining and rich fertile soil. They can easily grow in grow bags or containers and here we...
Growing Sunchokes aka Jerusalem Artichokes + Recipe
Sunchokes is a plant that is easy to grow and produces abundant harvests. Its tubers have a delicious nutty flavor. We You can start your sunchokes plant from tubers from a grocery store. We planted it in a small container and within just a few days the plants emerges...
California Garden Tour July 2018 – Gardening Tips, Harvests & More!
Today's episode of California Gardening is filled with gardening tips and advice. We begin with a tour of the Southern California Garden, we look at some summer harvests, we see how mockingbirds attack, we look at things to do in your garden this month, our recipe for...
EZ & Cheap Garden Trellis
Creating a Garden Trellis for all your plants like cucumbers, melons, beans etc. should be cheap and easy. All the things you need to make your your own garden trellis are available at your local Home Depot Finished product: What you need: Wire remesh, also called...
The California Heat Wave – How To Protect Your Garden
In today's post we look at the heat wave of 2018 and its aftermath on the California Garden. Temperatures in Southern California reached 117 degrees and the sun was shining down relentlessly for a couple of days. This extreme heat, which California plants are not used...
How To Grow Eggplants – A Complete Guide To Growing Eggplants (Solanum Melongena) + RECIPE!
In the plant profile series of videos, today we will look at growing the Listada de Gandia eggplant (Solanum Melongena) we will look at how to grow this eggplant variety in raised beds and we also have a delicious recipe for you! Planting Eggplants are summer...
The California Garden In June 2018
Welcome to the California Garden in the city of Irvine in Southern California in the United States of America. We have a lot going on in the June garden so sit back and enjoy this episode. 1. We will begin with a garden tour 2. we will look at the harvests we made...
Growing Potatoes In Raised Beds & How To Grow & Harvest Potatoes From Seed Potatoes
Welcome to a growing guide on how to grow the White Superior variety of potatoes. Fresh potatoes harvested from your garden taste much better than anything you can buy at the grocery store. Planting Our first step is to prepare the soil in our raised bed we already...
5 Steps To Create A Successful Container Vegetable Garden
In today's blog post we will learn how to set up a container garden easily. You can easily setup your container garden complete with pots, saucers and drip irrigation lines. We will learn how to easily set up your container vegetable garden and plant some vegetables...
The California Garden In May 2017
In today's blog post, we take a tour of our Southern California garden in the month of May. We begin with a garden tour and then go over some delicious summer harvests like tomatoes, avocado, cabbage, cayenne peppers, chillies, ivy gourd, mint, mulberries, swiss chard...
Growing Crossandra Sundance Firecracker Plant
Growing Sundance Crossandra & Firecracker Plant In today's video, we look at how to grow the Crossandra Plant. We look at two plant varieties - the Sundance Crossandra which produces orange flowers and the Firecracker plant which produces red flowers. Some...
Secured Raised Beds, Harvests & Things To Do – The California Garden in April
Welcome to the Southern California Garden In the month of April 2018. We look at a lot of gardening tasks in this video, including securing your raised beds with chicken wire to keep critters out, a lot of harvests of fruits and vegetables including Cabbage, Cayenne...
Drip Irrigation – Q&A
Drip irrigation for containers Drip irrigation is an easy way to water your plants unattended. Its great for summer months as well as other seasons if you are going to be away or do not have time to water your garden. Products To Set Up Your Drip Irrigation System: 1....
Beneficial Insects You Want in your Garden – The Gardener’s Best Friends!
In today's blog post, we look at some commonly found garden insects that are actually very beneficial for your garden So let?s meet some of these friends that you would love to have in your garden Honey bees Honey bees play a very important role in pollinating a lot...
Happy Spring Season! California Garden Tour – March 2018
Its the Spring season and things are heating up in the Southern California Garden. In today's episode we take a tour of the raised beds, container plants as well as the fruit trees. We then look at the wonderful Spring harvests of avocados, carrots, cauliflower,...
Growing Jasmine (Jasminum sambac)
They call it the flower of the Gods. This fragrant flower is easy to grow and will adorn your patio or backyard. In today's blog post we look at how to plant and care for your jasmine plant Growing Jasmine 1. Planting Planting Jasmine Planting Jasmine Jasmine...
Starting summer vegetable seeds indoors – A complete guide
It's THAT time of the year when you start your summer vegetable seeds for the next growing season. In today's episode we look at how to start vegetable seeds indoors. We begin with how to choose a seed starting kit or build you own seed starting mix and use hex trays...
Growing Dwarf Bananas In Your Garden – Dwarf Rajapuri Banana Tree
Everyone loves bananas! They are delicious, nutritious and hopefully after reading this blog article - they are easy to grow in your home garden as well! In the video below, you will learn how to grow a banana tree. We look at all aspects on growing a banana plant...
Spider Mites – How To Get Rid Of Spider Mites
Spider mite infestations are common in vegetable gardens. In today's blog post we show you how to get rid of spider mites in your garden. Product used in this post: Dr Earth organic spider mite control This is how spidermites look like: Spidermites are tiny insects...
The Best Gardening Channels On YouTube
Feedspot just announced the Top 100 Gardening Channels on YouTube. California Gardening is proud to be a part of the top 5 fastest growing gardening channels on YouTube. See the entire list here: Best Gardening Channels On YouTube Feedspot is owned by Anuj Agarwal...
The November Garden
The monthly gardening series is something you can use your plan the planting in your garden, month by month. In today's episode we look at the California Garden in the month for November. The November Garden We cover the following topics in today's episode: Garden...
October End Garden Tour – Harvests & Things To Do In Your Garden This Month
Its been a warmer than usual October this year. In today's California Garden tour we go over the following topics: A tour of the garden What's growing in the California garden Harvests we made this month Things to do Gardening products Here is a video with all the...