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 | Jul 19, 2024 | Misc |
Here I have them listed and categorized. Each title is a link. Thank you for your support . . . so that The Yard Posts are all food gardening and zero ads. Fruit Trees, general: Transplanting fruit trees in Southern California Don’t prune apricots, cherries, and...
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 | Jun 20, 2025 | June, Months |
June is the lush month. June is the jungle month, particularly toward the end. The days are at their longest and they are warm, so the garden begins to look verdant and tangled in a most wonderful way. Melon vines overtake your walking paths. Corn stalks tower...
by Greg Alder | Jan 1, 2025 | January, Months |
Here it is: our deep winter. In January, we might see frost on our lettuce, and we can enjoy a fire in the fireplace. Appreciate it before it’s warm again for the rest of the year. Have your deciduous fruit trees lost all of their leaves? Enjoy that look while...
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