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Komatsuma only 3 weeks old! I’ve made a wonderful discovery: Komatsuna-Tendergreen Mustard Spinach. When it comes to organizing my seed collection, I don’t have a good system. I’m much more interested in digging in the earth than setting up a proper seed file. As I got ready to plant last month, I came across [...] First rose of the season. In January I did the last of my rose pruning. I had let the shrub roses get too large so I really had to give them a severe pruning to reshape them. You have to know the kind of roses you have in order to properly prune them. I [...] 100% of the seeds sprouted. It’s not too early to plant snowpeas a.k.a. sugarpeas a.k.a edible pea pods. In fact, in some regions, some “early birds” planted snowpeas in the fall and left it up to the seeds as to when they felt ready to sprout. I normally plant snowpeas in February on the [...] Mustard against hill on ranch land in San Luis Obispo County Mustard is blooming all over San Luis Obispo County. It’s one of the many cover crops that farmers and ranchers plant to smother weeds and replenish nutrients in the soil. Mustard grows between grape vines, under orchard trees, and on grazing lands. It’s [...] Not a shamrock-a pink-flowered oxalis looks similar Happy St. Patrick’s Day all! Whether Irish or not, we all know that the shamrock is a symbol for Ireland. The shamrock is really a large-leafed variety of white clover (Trifolium) that you can purchase in nurseries this time of year. White clover is grown as a cover [...] Wildflower seeds ready to plant. I’ve tried to leave the computer and get outside to plant some wildflower seeds this morning. I’ve had the seeds since last year. It’s been hard to get outside because I’ve been distracted by website problems and successes. Backyard Hencam (for chicken lovers) is still having its share of [...] A coral passion vine flower I’m a terrible garden blogger. A good blog (the word comes from the words “web log”) is an account of happenings or thoughts of the person writing the blog. I ordinarily sit down once a week and write an article for my garden blog, rather than an actual blog. [...] As some of my readers know, I live in a coastal village south of Big Sur and north of San Luis Obispo. I consider myself a Central Coast Gardener even though this term can mean many things. East of us, along the Hwy 101 corridor, it can be 20 degrees hotter in the day and [...] |
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