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...
by californiagardening | Aug 16, 2011 | Flower, Fruit, Herb, Vegetable Gardening |
Hello friends! After moving to the city of Irvine which has a pleasant Zone 9b growing climate, we were excited to start our vegetable growing experience. Here are the highlights of what the garden looks like in July! 1. Watermelons: The watermelons are growing...
by californiagardening | Oct 10, 2009 | Garden How-Tos, Insect Control, pest control, Vegetable Gardening |
Hey everyone! Its beginning of fall here in Oceanside, California and I’ve noticed some pests on my okra plant. They seemed like aphids to me at first but it looks like these something else! They seem to be sucking the sap and eating the leaves…not good at...
