Why no avocados on your tree?
In July it becomes evident whether your avocado tree will have a crop to eat next year. Do you see small avocados on the tree now? Do you see many? If your answer to either question is no, then this post should give you a clue as to why not. If you have an...
Old Reed avocado trees
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Night gardening
Last night my wife and kids were out of town so I did what any husband and father might do with an evening alone. I put on my headlamp and gardened in the darkness. I planted tomatoes and tomatillos, and then I sowed a row of corn, and then I scouted around for...
What to do in a Southern California food garden in July
Stay cool. Make shade. Have a drink. Go to the beach. Harvest in the morning. Harvest in the evening. It's summer for all of us now -- inland it's felt like summer for a month already; but within a mile of the beach, it usually only starts feeling summery around the...
Highway 99
A few weeks ago, on our way back down from a friend's wedding in Oregon, we decided to take our rented RV on Highway 99 rather than the faster Interstate 5. I should say that I decided to take Highway 99. From Red Bluff in the north to Bakersfield in the...
Dealing with root knot nematodes in a vegetable garden
Over the past few summers, some of my vegetables have performed worse and worse because of damage from root knot nematodes. What are root knot nematodes? They're microscopic worm-like creatures that live in the dirt and bore into the roots of plants and interfere...
Managing alternate bearing in avocado trees
Would you rather have 50 avocados from a tree every year or 100 avocados every other year? By nature, individual avocado trees do not bear the same amount of fruit every year, year after year. Their crop load fluctuates, and it fluctuates for many reasons. I know of...
Captain Bucklew’s California mango trees
Captain L. L. Bucklew began planting mango trees in Encinitas, San Diego County, before World War II. By 1956, he was up to 172 trees. Bucklew’s grove was the first commercial planting of mangos in California, and today, fourteen of these historic trees are still...
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