Today’s guest post was submitted by Keith Howard of Lawn Care Service. You can see his original post here. There are some other great articles on that site as well, including 10 Unusual Items to Grow in Your Garden. ———————————————————————- Photo by Rachel Brinkerhoff If you have a back yard large enough to…
Calypso beans, an heirloom seed My friend, Yolanda, sent me this article from the NY Times renewing that old debate about heirloom vs. hybrid seeds. So I figured I’d give my opinion on it here. Remember it’s only my personal feelings about the debate. No one is wrong, we all have very good reasons for…
After last year I thought I had learned my lesson dealing with seedcorn maggots. We didn’t plant out corn, squash and beans too early. Actually they aren’t even started yet. We put down compost and manure in the fall rather than the spring to make sure there wasn’t too much organic matter out. And I’m not direct…
I get asked a lot about what to plant when. So, I’ve decided that Fridays I’ll share what I plan on planting, harvesting, transplanting, and pruning the coming weekend. Now, this is pretty much only for the San Francisco Bay Area. And even here it’s different than other areas of the Bay Area. So of…
Through his blog UrbanOrganicGardener.com and social media, Mike Lieberman shares his expertise on urban gardening, green living and real food. He inspires others to start growing their own food and believes that growing just one herb or vegetable will make a difference. It will help to cut back the intensive resources that go into the…
Oh, and let’s not forget parsnips, rutabegas, radishes and onions if we’re going to discuss root vegetables. I’d add in salsify but I haven’t tried that yet. Potatoes and garlic aren’t started by seed so we’re going to ignore them for this post. My beef is with seed-started root veggies. It’s usually not recommended to…
Our beds have always been a little wonky. We don’t have raised beds because it would be cost prohibitive to put them in. Over time they’ve slowly changed shape and narrowed. The middle ones don’t even run in a straight line anymore. Needless to say we had to do something about them. We just didn’t…
I posted over a year ago about seed resources and the varieties we plant. Well over time things have changed. We’ve learned more about our property and weather patterns here and have been able to adjust it. Of course it will always be a moving target over time, but for now these are what we’ve…
I hope everyone has a wonderful New Year! I did a post earlier this month about our goals and accomplishments so I’m not going to rehash it. I do want to give a run down of how our garden did this year. Maybe you’ve seen our running total on the sidebar. Well, that will soon…
Hoping to find scions for Arkansas Black Apples What’s a scion you ask? A scion (not the car company) is a plant shoot, bud or small branch that you graft onto rootstock of another plant. The California Rare Fruit Growers have an event every year during bareroot season where people can go and exchange…
Dog Island Farm is a small urban farm in the San Francisco Bay Area.
