by Greg Alder | Oct 20, 2016 | Vegetables, Watering |
My short answer is: Start with 45 minutes, observe, and adjust. But there are a lot of variables, which is why observing and adjusting is necessary. Of the many factors that affect how long you should run a drip irrigation system on vegetables, one is the...
by Greg Alder | Dec 25, 2025 | Misc |
It’s a cornucopia, dig in. Find all of my Yard Posts under the categories and curations below. AVOCADOS California, where are your local avocados? How I girdle avocado trees A tour of John Schoustra’s innovative, organic, low-input, high-density avocado grove...
by Greg Alder | Sep 7, 2025 | Misc |
They keep sprouting thanks to your support. Here is a list of them all: Fruit Trees, general: Growing apples in Southern California Growing dragon fruit in Southern California Rejuvenation pruning of stone fruit trees Scion Exchanges (of the California Rare Fruit...
by Greg Alder | Nov 25, 2015 | Vegetables, Weather |
Not spring. Maybe elsewhere, but in Southern California now is the time. I had almost forgot this lesson, and I hadn’t planted one of the rows of the vegetable garden, until about a week ago when I recalled all of the advantages of growing in the fall. For one,...
by Greg Alder | Jul 19, 2025 | Fruit |
Among the first words out of my two year-old son’s mouth every morning was, “Can I have a banana?” He would have eaten five a day if allowed. So I was hearing the call to grow more in our yard. Here in Southern California? Can you really grow bananas? Climate for...
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