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Planning for New Vegetable Gardens: Introduction to Soil Toxicity

June 7, 2020 GardenZeus Northern California / GardenZeus Southern California / New and Now / Organic Gardening: Vegetables / The Mighty Garden Archive By: C. Darren Butler

Soil toxicity is anything in soil that is harmful or could be harmful to plants, people, pets, or wildlife.

Planning for New Vegetable Gardens: Timing

April 24, 2020 GardenZeus Northern California / GardenZeus Southern California / New and Now / Organic Gardening: Vegetables / The Mighty Garden Archive By: C. Darren Butler

Intuitive recognition of environmental conditions and patterns, and experience with the "feel" of successful timing in a given season, climate, and area is as important or more important than fact-based knowledge or anything that can be learned from research.

Planning for New Vegetable Gardens: Seasonality

April 18, 2020 GardenZeus Northern California / GardenZeus Southern California / New and Now / Organic Gardening: Vegetables / The Mighty Garden Archive By: C. Darren Butler

Much of California has a dry Mediterranean climate with mild, rainy winters and warm-to-hot dry summers, often with little or no rain from spring to fall or winter.

Growing Vitamin C: A Guide to Planting Citrus Trees

March 24, 2020 GardenZeus Northern California / GardenZeus Southern California / Made with Sunshine: Growing Citrus in California / The Mighty Garden Archive By: Ann Clary

Citrus trees are an excellent source of Vitamin C. Most citrus trees grow well in the Mediterranean climates of coastal California. And spring, after all possibility of frost has past and before the heat of the summer, is an ideal time for planting. Planting. Proper planting of fruit trees is critical to their long-term health […]

Planning for New Vegetable Gardens: Siting and Sunlight

March 22, 2020 GardenZeus Northern California / GardenZeus Southern California / New and Now / Organic Gardening: Vegetables / The Mighty Garden Archive By: C. Darren Butler

How challenging is it to succeed with a new garden? Harder than you might expect even for experienced gardeners, but problems are solvable.

Gardening as a Refuge in Troubled Times

March 19, 2020 GardenZeus Northern California / GardenZeus Southern California / New and Now / Organic Gardening: Vegetables / The Mighty Garden Archive By: C. Darren Butler

If you haven’t felt it yet, undoubtedly you will at some point in the coming weeks and months: frustration, weariness, or the numbness that follows prolonged stress. When faced with perpetual uncertainty during the Coronavirus pandemic, with many options for relaxation and fun curtailed or unavailable, gardening may be one of the very best candidates […]

Fall Vegetable Plants for Colder Mediterranean Climates

September 23, 2017 GardenZeus Northern California / Organic Gardening: Vegetables / The Mighty Garden Archive By: Ann Clary

Here are three cool-season vegetables that tolerate light frost, making them ideal for fall planting in colder Mediterranean climates: Parsley. Ideal conditions for growing parsley are full sun at temperatures of about 75° F to 80° F, but parsley grows well in daytime temperatures from about 65° F to 85° F. When planting in fall, […]

Acidify Your Soil With a Vinegar and Water Soil Drench

July 28, 2017 GardenZeus Northern California / GardenZeus Southern California / The Mighty Garden Archive By: Ann Clary

Alkaline soils can be acidified with a solution of 1 tablespoon white vinegar per gallon of water used as a soil drench. To determine the alkalinity of your soil, GardenZeus recommends the following articles: Down and Dirty 5: What is the Mother of All Southern California Landscape and Garden Problems? Down and Dirty 7: Mud […]

Selecting Onion Varieties for California Gardens: The Importance of Day Length

March 5, 2017 GardenZeus Northern California / GardenZeus Southern California / Organic Gardening: Vegetables / The Mighty Garden Archive By: Ann Clary

Selecting bulb onions varieties to grow in the home garden is more complicated than for most other vegetables. The most important factor for home gardeners is day length, meaning the number of hours of sunlight needed to initiate bulbing and for the plants to form full, mature bulbs. If you have the wrong day-length variety […]

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