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, and guidance on watering. It’s based on my personal experience growing in Southern California gardens near the beach and inland.
Changes and additions for this year include:
- Watering Cheat Sheet
- Vegetable Planting Chart for the whole year
- Best months to plant certain vegetables
- All new photos
- Weeks starting on Sunday (instead of Monday, as last year)
Thanks to all who made suggestions on how the calendar could be improved. A peek at a few pages:
See more sample pages inside the calendar, details, and ordering information by clicking HERE.
December and those pomegranates. Getting some trees going. My chickens love them. I hope to get enough to juice them for me eventually.
Thank you, Greg. I enjoy your posts, and I appreciate the work you put into the calendars.
As always, I enjoy and look forward to your weekly posts Greg. So much to learn about! Thank you for the informative posts and for putting together the food growing calendar. I look forward to receiving it, whenever it arrives!
Hi Greg, I just got my calendars, they look great and are full of solid advice. One question: on the photo part of each month, where you list vegetables to sow or plant, some have an asterisk (*) before them, e.g. January has *carrots, February has *lettuce and *potatoes. What is that code for?
Thanks again this year for all your work and keeping us all inspired!
Hi Doug,
Sorry I didn’t do a great job of pointing out the meaning of the asterisks. On the back cover, buried in the section on planting dates, I say that the asterisks mean that a crop is best planted in that month. I tried to choose a single month for each crop that could be considered the best of all times of the year to plant it.
So, for example, if I were going to choose one month in which to start carrots in Southern California, I would choose January. I don’t have space to explain the reasons in the calendar, but for carrots it’s mostly because it’s easy to keep seeds moist until germination, there has likely already been enough rain so that the soil is wet to a foot or two deep so the roots are more likely to grow deep and straight, root knot nematodes are less active, and the soil is cool in January (and the few months following), which seems to improve the carrot’s flavor.
Hi Greg! I’m in Jamul and just got your calendar! It’s beautiful and love that it’s specific to us here in San Diego Co zone 10. Keep up the good work!