{"id":5593,"date":"2019-06-21T15:36:37","date_gmt":"2019-06-21T22:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/?p=5593"},"modified":"2019-06-21T15:47:13","modified_gmt":"2019-06-21T22:47:13","slug":"learning-from-the-california-gardener-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregalder.com\/yardposts\/learning-from-the-california-gardener-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning from the California Gardener of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Just when I thought my vegetable garden was humming, I visited Roy\u2019s. Actually, before I visited Roy\u2019s garden, he handed me three bags stuffed full of pickings. One contained heads of romaine lettuce. Another had zuchinni, yellow squash, spaghetti squash, and cucumbers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Beautiful produce, but it was only the last few items that made me realize the potential that Roy\u2019s garden was reaching that mine could. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This was last week, on Saturday, June 15. In addition to the above vegetables, Roy had picked for me green bell peppers and large red tomatoes — already! Again, this was on June 15 — and after having an abnormally cool spring. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then came the kicker. Also in the bags were two heads of cauliflower. One was large and white, the other smaller and orange. Neither have I ever had coming from my garden at such high quality as late as now, the very last week of spring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fruits of Roy’s garden in mid-June.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Roy\u2019s garden isn\u2019t in Oxnard or Salinas — a foggy, maritime climate. This is Poway, an inland valley of Southern California that had reached triple digits five days earlier, on June 10. Cauliflower hates 100 degrees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHow do you have cauliflower coming still, now?\u201d I asked, almost shouting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey\u2019re from my last planting, in March.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYeah, but did you shade them? What\u2019s your trick?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNo. The weather cooperated this spring, and you have to choose the right variety.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The large white head was a variety called \u2018Candid Charm\u2019<\/a> whose seeds Roy gets from Territorial in Oregon; the orange was \u2018Cheddar\u2019. He said he didn\u2019t shade them even during the couple days of heat except to snap a leaf and bend it over the head to protect it. That\u2019s all. No big deal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Roy Wilburn, California Gardener of the Year<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Roy Wilburn is the California Gardener of the Year for 2019, as selected by the California Garden Clubs<\/a>, of which there are over 300. Think about that: How many gardeners are there in California — how many great gardeners? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But really, Roy isn\u2019t a gardener. Even his nickname shows it. People know him as Farmer Roy. He spent 20 years a commercial grower of strawberries and tomatoes and other crops up and down the Baja California coast, but especially near San Quentin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His job title for the last decade, however, has been \u201cHorticulture Manager.\u201d Roy grows tens of thousands of pounds of fruits and vegetables on the 32-acre grounds of Sunshine Care<\/a>, a community of assisted-living homes where people with dementia and Alzheimer\u2019s reside and eat from Roy\u2019s garden. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But even that is only a slice of what Roy contributes to the world of gardening. I was at Sunshine Care with Roy last Saturday because he\u2019d asked me to give a talk about drip irrigation; I was the monthly speaker in his series of free gardening lectures that he puts on for the community. He\u2019s been doing this a long time. A handful of years ago, I joined Roy at Sunshine Care as one of his first garden lecture speakers to give a talk on pruning fruit trees. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

After my talk about irrigation on Saturday, he invited the 50 or so attendees to take home some vegetables that he had grown and picked for them, and to join him for a walk through his gardens. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Touring Roy\u2019s gardens<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We strolled up the hill, opened a gate, and stood in the shade of a giant elderberry bush that had been pruned up into the shape of a tree. The first plants we focused on were squash. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Roy’s yellow squash plants.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Roy explained that the plants have bare stems down low because he removes leaves from the bottom of the squash plants every time he harvests. This makes harvesting easier because the prickly stems don\u2019t scratch your arms as much, but it also makes the plants look more attractive because those old squash leaves yellow and turn brown on the margins, and they get colonized by powdery mildew. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cReally, if I were growing for myself, I probably wouldn\u2019t bother. But I have to make the plants look good for you guys here,\u201d said Roy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(As soon as I got home, I removed the lower leaves on my zucchini, and it all of a sudden appeared so much healthier.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tomatoes<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Roy’s rows of tomatoes.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

We turned to rows on the other side of the elderberry. His tomatoes are planted too close together! Hasn\u2019t he heard the rules?<\/em> They were only 1.5 feet apart, all down a row that was dozens of feet long. Plant after plant after plant. Yet they were loaded with fruit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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How Roy supports his tomatoes: stakes and string.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The tomato plants were kept upright by strings that were tied to wood stakes inserted in between the plants. Strings for support ran horizontally about every foot up the stakes. The look was of a uniform hedge of tomatoes that was kept surprisingly narrow. What is most notable about this method of supporting tomatoes is how it restricts the spread that tomato plants have naturally and yet it doesn\u2019t seem to reduce yield. It\u2019s a highly functional way of taming the wild, sprawling vines that tomatoes want to be. And since the plants are kept upright and narrow, their fruit are never hidden deep inside the plant, making for quick and easy harvest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Roy shades his tomatoes in summer. He said he lays 30-percent shade cloth over the plants to prevent sun scald, usually starting in July. Similar to other inland valleys of Southern California, the summer sun and heat are intense enough at Roy\u2019s location to damage tomato fruit that aren\u2019t protected by leaves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Peppers<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

He similarly shades his peppers. But in addition to the shade cloth, he gives them natural protection through his planting scheme: Not only are the plants set out every foot down the row — again, way too close!<\/em> — but he also plants them in pairs. So down the row are pairs of peppers about a foot apart, with the drip irrigation line in between.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Roy’s peppers planted in pairs.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The side by side plants help shade each other, shade being especially important to large bell peppers during the summer. The peppers are also given string for upright support, like the tomatoes, but to support the shade cloth over the peppers he uses wire hoops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Peppers, cucumbers, and more peppers.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

“I want to grow red bell peppers,” Roy told me. “Anyone can grow green bell peppers.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Protective shade is key here since the fruit must spend a long time on the plant, vulnerable to summer sun, turning from green to red.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve been planting my peppers closer together each year to try to achieve the same sun scald prevention, but not as close as Roy\u2019s, and I\u2019ve never tried the side-by-side planting. I\u2019m eager to try Roy\u2019s technique.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My single row of peppers interplanted with lettuce.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Children\u2019s Garden<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yesterday I visited Roy’s garden again, but this time I brought the kids. So did many other parents. On the Sunshine Care grounds, Roy also runs a Garden Club for Kids<\/a>, particularly aimed at preschoolers and home schoolers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We started the morning with Roy directing us to pick cherry tomatoes. He grows twelve varieties in the “Children’s Garden.” In July, the kids will judge a taste test. ‘Sungold’<\/a> has won in years past, but ‘Nova’<\/a> is Roy’s personal favorite. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“Pick any tomato that isn’t green.”<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Then Roy directed us in planting some new tomatoes in another garden. \u201cPlant them deep, all the way up to their fake leaves,\u201d he said, pointing to the cotyledons. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Roy told the girls to plant a roma-type called \u2018Mariana\u2019<\/a>, and boys were to plant a large slicer variety called \u2018Mountain Fresh\u2019<\/a>. I carried my daughter and helped my boys grab \u2018Mountain Fresh\u2019 plants to row four. Roy had already dug holes and watered the bed. My boys buried their tomatoes up to their \u201cfake\u201d leaves as Farmer Roy instructed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

My kids have a bit of experience in gardens; they\u2019ve helped me plant tomatoes. Still, this was Roy\u2019s dirt and Roy\u2019s method, and it was a learning experience for them. It appeared to be for all of the other kids as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kids and old folks<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

From there, Roy lead us to another garden where we picked apples and then mulberries. And then we gathered by his greenhouse where about a dozen of the old folks who live at Sunshine Care were waiting for us. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Roy took a seat in the middle of everyone, the kids sitting at his feet, the old folks seated at tables to his right, the parents standing at the back, and he entertained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cWhat\u2019s your name?\u201d he asked a girl.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSophia.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThat\u2019s a very nice name.\u201d Then he asked another girl, \u201cWhat\u2019s your name?\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cKayla,\u201d she said <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThat\u2019s an . . . alright name.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This was fun and games. This was Farmer Roy talking. He\u2019s a joker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Next even came a formal call for jokes. Kids in turn stood by Roy to perform their best comedy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhy did the \u201cU\u201d cross the road?\u201d started one boy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHe didn\u2019t. He made a U-turn.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Soon, Roy had the old folks at the tables helping the kids sow seeds in trays. At the table where I helped, we sowed basil. And I watched the interactions between the youngsters sowing some of their first seeds and the oldsters who may have sown a million. It was magical. Bringing kids and old folks together through a gardening task worked brilliantly, and it illuminated something for me. I thought of how gardening connects me and my own grandmother. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Gardening can connect people<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Roy\u2019s character, his fondness for fun, belies the fact that behind his eyes are pounds of technical knowledge. He\u2019s a masterful gardener and farmer. He studied mathematics at U.C. San Diego before becoming a farmer. The hard science side is in him. And he can teach us to be better technical growers, to be sure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But gardening can be a means to other ends. Roy uses gardening to feed people, of course, but also he uses it to gather and connect people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Backyard Produce Project<\/a> is yet another garden on the grounds of Sunshine Care that Roy grows alongside volunteers who donate the vegetables and fruits of their efforts to nearby families in need. Palomar Health<\/a>, who runs the hospital next door to Sunshine Care, is a sponsor of this garden, as are a number of local companies. Lots of connections are being made there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You\u2019re never going to visit Roy\u2019s gardens at Sunshine Care and not learn how to grow better peppers or better everything else. You expect to be taught that. But you don\u2019t expect to be shown that growing better plants is only where gardening starts.
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You might also like to read my posts:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gardening with kids<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reading my grandma’s 1961 Sunset Western Garden Book<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Master Gardeners, ready to help<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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