by Greg Alder | May 17, 2019 | Misc |
Join me this evening (Friday, May 17) at 7 PM at the Oceanside campus of Mira Costa College for the meeting of the California Rare Fruit Growers, North San Diego County chapter (guests are welcome), where I’ll be talking about “Early season fruit tree...
by Greg Alder | May 3, 2019 | Misc, Resources |
An easy and free way to get a gardening question answered is by calling or sending an email to your local Master Gardeners. I’ve spent many hours as a Master Gardener volunteer in San Diego County answering phone calls and emails from the public at the University of...
by Greg Alder | May 1, 2019 | Misc |
If you live down south, please join me at the Imperial Beach library to talk about avocado trees, citrus, and using rainwater in your garden — all on Tuesday, May 28 at 4 PM. ShareClick to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Pinterest (Opens...
by Greg Alder | Apr 9, 2019 | Misc |
This evening (Tuesday) I’ll be joining the San Diego Geranium Society to talk about Home Food Gardening — growing vegetables and fruit trees. Visitors are welcome! The meeting begins at 7 p.m., we’ll discuss the topics for around an hour, and...
by Greg Alder | Mar 22, 2019 | Misc |
Spring has sprung! After a relatively long, rainy, and chilly winter for Southern California, plants are bursting their buds to soak up some sun. I can’t recall a winter around here that actually lasted until the end of the calendar winter. But March 20 has...
by Greg Alder | Mar 1, 2019 | Misc |
I was walking with a friend through his fruit tree orchard a couple weeks ago when he knelt down to pull up a weed. “Oh, I love that plant,” I said. “These things are everywhere. What is it?” “It’s called deerweed. It’s a native plant. It has little yellow and orange...
by Greg Alder | Dec 28, 2018 | Misc |
Winter in Southern California is a season of unique gardening opportunities. What follows is a collection of winter Yard Posts — both recent and from a few winters ago — related to only this season. I’m sure you’ll find some you’ve never...
by Greg Alder | Dec 21, 2018 | Misc |
California Bees and Blooms has become my guide to a more lively, colorful, and fruitful yard. Just a few mornings ago, I photographed bees collecting pollen on a California poppy flower, one of the first to open this winter. There was lots of buzzing and flashes of...
by Greg Alder | Oct 26, 2018 | Resources, Vegetables |
Below are a handful of excellent answers to this question. They are downloadable tables, calendars, and monthly guides with more details. I know they’ll help you get the right vegetables planted at the right time here in Southern California, correct timing being...
by Greg Alder | Sep 28, 2018 | Misc |
Most years, we spend a couple weeks visiting friends and my wife’s family in Oregon at the end of summer, and my garden has to fend for itself. How to prepare it for my absence? I worked extra hard for this September’s vacation because it was going to be a full three...
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