Stewart avocado tree: a profile
See my other avocado variety profiles HERE All of my Yard Posts are HERE
The Yard Posts food gardening calendar 2022
Ready for pre-order now, the Yard Posts food gardening calendars are being printed. What is the purpose of this calendar? It helps Southern California food gardeners by listing for each month which vegetables to plant, how to care for different kinds of fruit trees,...
The Yard Posts avocado calendar 2022
The new year's calendar is designed and being printed! This 2022 avocado calendar includes some changes and additions: Section on how to plant an avocado tree correctlyAll new photosWeeks starting on Sunday (instead of Monday, as last year)Extra information for each...
Mexicola Grande (3-1-1) avocado tree: a profile
Here is a video showing characteristics of the Mexicola Grande variety of avocado tree (originally known as '3-1-1'): And here is a video showing characteristics of the Mexicola Grande variety of avocado fruit: All of my avocado variety profiles are listed HERE All of...
Spacing and interplanting for broccoli, cauliflower, and cabbage
Because broccoli, cauliflower, and cabbage plants become big once mature, they must be spaced far apart. But why waste the garden ground between them during their young days? Spacing At maturity, broccoli, cauliflower, and cabbage (BCC) plants can span four feet...
Watering Cheat Sheet for vegetables and fruit trees
I'm always trying to make watering vegetables and fruit trees more turnkey. I don't want to have to solve math equations every time I water in order to water within the range of effective and efficient, but I also don't want to be shooting in the dark each time I turn...
Fertilizing avocado trees
In 2018, I visited the largest organic avocado farm in California. It’s those hills in the photo above -- they're covered with hundreds of acres of avocado trees. And I felt vindicated when I saw that they care for the soil under their trees in essentially the same...
UC Riverside seeks to deliver mRNA vaccines through lettuce
According to a press release dated September 16, 2021, the federal government has given $500,000 in tax dollars to UC Riverside and collaborating researchers at UC San Diego and Carnegie Mellon University in order to figure out how to “turn edible plants like lettuce...
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