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Ok, farmer john, let me know how that works out.
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Ok, farmer john, let me know how that works out.
We couldn't do optimum timing this year because we were going to be gone several times over the summer. By the time we were firmly rooted back at home, it was early August.
Me: "OK, I'm building a planter. What do you want in it?"
She: "I'll get some eggplant seeds."
And I told her when she wanted to grow guava trees that they wouldn't survive the frosts. She said she knew of trees growing in Mira Mesa, so up on a hill in Poway should be ok. As it turned out, we were both right - in peak season we were taking guavas to the boys' Salvadoran soccer coach every week. Then when the frosts came, the leaves would drop off and the branch wood would turn black, forcing me to trim all the way to the ground some years - but they came back.
I was completely right about the cherimoyas - we never got a single fruit.
My cherimoyas always had fruit.
Im not a big fan.
I cut em all down.
Snow peas, broccoli, carrots, leeks, onions, greens in the cool season.
No sarcasm.
Ok...Ok...we get it.
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I just put the soil in the second planter today, and my wife and I agree that we need another the same size to balance the patio. We already have onions growing, but the peas and a selection of lettuces sound nice.
The lady next door just moved out and left a bag of Burpee pea seeds spilled on her patio.
Right now we can harvest parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme, plus mint, bell peppers, jalapenos, three kinds of tomato, lemon grass and sweet potato greens. The lemons are almost ready from two trees (and the third aborted all its lemons this year). The zucchini was a flop - only three small ones so far. I started two papaya trees in pots, and we are deciding where to plant one, and who to gift the other.
The big unknown is the purple hyacinth bean that my wife calls bataw. According to the books, we planted them way too late, and the first two were damaged by cutworms - only one recovered. The book also says the beans are toxic, but can be made edible by repeated boiling cycles, fresh water each time. The pictures look like a nice ornamental if they make it through the first winter
If you pay close attention to the commercial vegetable fields, they plant some crops in time-spaced waves so that the whole field doesn't come into harvest the same week. Spoiled socal gardeners don't appreciate the stress invoilved in timing the planting so that the sensitive shoots come up just after the last killing frost in Spring, and selection of varieties that will be harvestable before the first frost in Fall. On the other hand, we didn't have to water much.
Wez
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How about a yes or no?
Wez
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Like when I just exposed you as a liar regarding my comments on Surf Cup?
Comment 17918 on Trump thread.
I plant peas, broccoli, and other "cool season" vegetables in October.
I plant tomatoes, cucumbers, chiles, eggplant, squash, and other "warm season" vegetables in mid April.
There are many micro climates in the region, and this dictates the optimum average.
Inland areas can plant earlier in spring, and later in fall.
Every year is a little different, but this is the average for me.
By "planting" I mean, this is when I transplant my seedlings into the ground.
I have it timed so that I have roughly one month after I till and mix in my new compost, before I transplant my seedlings.
I grow lettuce year round, but it needs shade, especially in the summer months.
There are few better climates to grow your own vegetables in the world.
Wez
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If you plant tomatoes now, do they still grow and ripen?
I picked cherry, plum, and "heat-tolerant" tomatoes today. The plum tomato was planted in the Spring and seemed to die (long story) but was in a location where it got watered several times a week by the landscaping sprinklers, so when we came back from Vermont in July it looked almost healthy, so I started caring for it again. The others were planted from Home Depot planter pots about August 1.
I have found a spinach that grows year round and does not die off.