by Greg Alder | Oct 26, 2024 | Vegetables |
My job is to grow food for my family. Some crops I grow because we all love to eat them (Cara Cara oranges, for example), some crops I grow because just one of us is a big fan. My wife needs her zucchini so I’ve learned to sow, plant, water, and harvest them....
by Greg Alder | Oct 11, 2024 | Avocados |
In 2018, I first visited this grove of Reed avocados. The trees had been planted ten feet apart. In avocado-world parlance, they call that “high density” planting. Traditional tree spacing is more like twenty feet apart. But then the farmer further added a...
by Greg Alder | Sep 6, 2024 | Fruit, Pests |
My goal is to see birds as garden teammates — as they eat insects that can be pests, such as aphids — and not as enemies as they peck the fruit on my trees. As far as my experience goes, the best way to accomplish this is to prevent birds from access to...
by Greg Alder | Aug 23, 2024 | Misc |
It is the height of the heat of summer now, but this week I was browsing back through photos until I arrived at last winter. The yard was green. There was frost. Plants were wet with rain. What a different world – in the same place, just in the opposite season. Early...
by Greg Alder | Jul 26, 2024 | Avocados |
Jaime Serrato has managed thousands of acres of avocados around San Diego County over the course of his career. His perspective holds weight; numerous avocado growers whom I hold in high regard always speak of Jaime with respect. As part of the California Avocado...
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