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It's early November, and the last of my tomatoes fake cartier braclet will be picked green. Last Thursday, the sorry looking broccoli ended up in the compost bin, and the pot of mixed lettuce greens was moved to the south facing window ledge on the front of the house.
With the approach of winter, the shadow from our house completely eclipses this north facing garden and I quit the vegetable garden for the winter. It's deep in shade, and there's no longer enough light to grow healthy vegetables. I can retire to the couch until the sun returns.
However, those gardeners not similarly blessed with this imposed leisure can continue working their vegetable gardens year round. This month, at the sun filled Garden for the Environment in San Francisco's Inner Sunset neighborhood, plants a good half dozen vegetables, as well as cover crops.
The Garden for the Environment is maintained by the of Urban Gardeners (SLUG) to teach environmental protection through nontoxic, water wise gardening and composting. It is an outdoor classroom a beautiful garden where one can see the possibilities for one's own garden.
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Craddock, who maintains the garden, recently held a weekend workshop on winter vegetables in which she emphasized experimentation. "Try it" was her response to most of the questions posed by the class and this wasn't just a cavalier brush off.
Our weather is so unusual, with cool, foggy summers and warm, wet winters, and our microclimates are so varied, that written garden instructions generally don't apply, with the exception of the book "Golden Gate Gardening," which Craddock says was the basis for her workshop.
Experimentation has become second nature to Craddock, she says. Failure, inherent in experimentation, provides instruction, and failure in garden experiments usually means dead plants. Though the workshop was fact filled, it was Craddock's loose, open attitude I found most valuable.
Some of us take a plant death cartier leve bracelet copy so personally that it undermines our experimentation. I kill enough in the yard when I'm not trying that I haven't the nerve to go about it deliberately, but Craddock's attitude replica cartier love style bracelet was a good reminder that gardeners have to be willing to explore and to lose a few seedlings in the process.
All Right, Already! What's Going to Grow?
In winter, when daylight is limited, only a select group of vegetables will thrive and be ready for a spring harvest. Craddock plants snow peas, onions, lettuces, mizuna, radishes, beets and cover crops of crimson clover and fava beans.
In her workshop, she featured two intriguing plants for the winter garden garlic and artichokes. As Craddock held a head of garlic in her palm for us, she said, yes, you can plant the garlic you buy from a grocery store, but better to get your garlic from a nursery so you can be sure it's disease free. Garlic comes in hard neck and soft neck varieties, and Craddock said the soft neck does better in this area.
A small end of a bed had been cleared for the garlic, and we added an inch thick layer of compost to our clearing and dug it in. After Craddock broke apart the garlic and laid the cloves down approximately 5 inches apart, we pushed them into the soft, moist soil about 1 inch deep, pointy end up.
Craddock said the area was watered before planting and that you shouldn't water again until shoots emerge in a week or so; watering now can cause rotting. When it's not raining, she waters twice a week.
In late spring, the leaves of the garlic will begin to turn yellow, a sign the bulb is maturing, and you should stop watering. When more than half the leaves are brown, dig up your garlic and shake off as much dirt as possible. Allow the plant to cure in a warm, dry place for at least two weeks before using the cloves.
Garlic does not need to be restricted to the vegetable garden. You can plant cloves amid your ornamentals just be sure you're not planting them near anything that needs regular water come spring, when the garlic should stay dry.
The artichoke is a stunning plant that makes a great ornamental. In fact, unlike most garden vegetables, which are annuals that die at the end of their fruiting season, artichokes are perennials that will produce for several years. They grow to 4 feet high and just as wide across they need space.
The artichoke plant at the Garden cartier love bracelet men for the Environment is two years old, stands about 3 feet high and is bearing a nice crop. Artichoke plants are usually started from root stock sold at nurseries, but this is a piece divided from another plant and includes the stem base, young shoots and roots.
To plant your root stock, dig a hole that will comfortably accommodate the length of your root. Artichokes need well draining soil, so don't spare the compost. Toss a few handfuls into the hole and mix it thoroughly before planting your root stock, and then plant it vertically, with the shoots slightly above soil level.
Craddock waters her artichoke twice a week.
The young plant may produce a small crop the first year, but you'll have better luck in subsequent years. Harvest your artichokes while it they still are tight, plump buds. If left on the plant, they'll open into broad, purple, thistle like flowers.
Craddock says that after the plant bears fruit in the spring, she cuts the spent stalks to the ground, where new stalks sprout at the base.
The big hubbub from the class was reserved for the cover crops the fava and clover. It appears many people are looking for economical, organic alternatives to chemical fertilizers and soil conditioners.
Cover cropping also known as green manure is an old farming practice that entails growing a nutritious ground cover during fallow periods to feed and protect the soil. You're growing crops for the soil, not yourself.
This is also an out for those of you with sunny yards: Lay down a cover crop and you, too, can retire to the couch until spring.
Many plants, such as rye grass, wheat, oats and barley, are used as cover crops, but it is only the legumes beans, peas, alfalfas, clovers, vetches and other related plants that add valuable nitrogen to the soil.
In general, all cover crops protect bare soil from winter's hazards rain that leaches nutrients from it, wind that blows the top layer away and if you plant legumes, like clover and fava, you get the additional benefit of nitrogen for the soil.
The roots of these leguminous plants support rhizobacteria, which help the plant take nitrogen gases from the air and fix, or convert, them into nitrogen in the soil for the next generation of plants to use. Pull up a legume and you'll see the little pearls along its root system, where the nitrogen is actually stored.in regards to cartier necklace gold nail fake Newest trend Information present Notice
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It's early November, and the last of my tomatoes fake cartier braclet will be picked green. Last Thursday, the sorry looking broccoli ended up in the compost bin, and the pot of mixed lettuce greens was moved to the south facing window ledge on the front of the house.
With the approach of winter, the shadow from our house completely eclipses this north facing garden and I quit the vegetable garden for the winter. It's deep in shade, and there's no longer enough light to grow healthy vegetables. I can retire to the couch until the sun returns.
However, those gardeners not similarly blessed with this imposed leisure can continue working their vegetable gardens year round. This month, at the sun filled Garden for the Environment in San Francisco's Inner Sunset neighborhood, plants a good half dozen vegetables, as well as cover crops.
The Garden for the Environment is maintained by the of Urban Gardeners (SLUG) to teach environmental protection through nontoxic, water wise gardening and composting. It is an outdoor classroom a beautiful garden where one can see the possibilities for one's own garden.
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Craddock, who maintains the garden, recently held a weekend workshop on winter vegetables in which she emphasized experimentation. "Try it" was her response to most of the questions posed by the class and this wasn't just a cavalier brush off.
Our weather is so unusual, with cool, foggy summers and warm, wet winters, and our microclimates are so varied, that written garden instructions generally don't apply, with the exception of the book "Golden Gate Gardening," which Craddock says was the basis for her workshop.
Experimentation has become second nature to Craddock, she says. Failure, inherent in experimentation, provides instruction, and failure in garden experiments usually means dead plants. Though the workshop was fact filled, it was Craddock's loose, open attitude I found most valuable.
Some of us take a plant death cartier leve bracelet copy so personally that it undermines our experimentation. I kill enough in the yard when I'm not trying that I haven't the nerve to go about it deliberately, but Craddock's attitude replica cartier love style bracelet was a good reminder that gardeners have to be willing to explore and to lose a few seedlings in the process.
All Right, Already! What's Going to Grow?
In winter, when daylight is limited, only a select group of vegetables will thrive and be ready for a spring harvest. Craddock plants snow peas, onions, lettuces, mizuna, radishes, beets and cover crops of crimson clover and fava beans.
In her workshop, she featured two intriguing plants for the winter garden garlic and artichokes. As Craddock held a head of garlic in her palm for us, she said, yes, you can plant the garlic you buy from a grocery store, but better to get your garlic from a nursery so you can be sure it's disease free. Garlic comes in hard neck and soft neck varieties, and Craddock said the soft neck does better in this area.
A small end of a bed had been cleared for the garlic, and we added an inch thick layer of compost to our clearing and dug it in. After Craddock broke apart the garlic and laid the cloves down approximately 5 inches apart, we pushed them into the soft, moist soil about 1 inch deep, pointy end up.
Craddock said the area was watered before planting and that you shouldn't water again until shoots emerge in a week or so; watering now can cause rotting. When it's not raining, she waters twice a week.
In late spring, the leaves of the garlic will begin to turn yellow, a sign the bulb is maturing, and you should stop watering. When more than half the leaves are brown, dig up your garlic and shake off as much dirt as possible. Allow the plant to cure in a warm, dry place for at least two weeks before using the cloves.
Garlic does not need to be restricted to the vegetable garden. You can plant cloves amid your ornamentals just be sure you're not planting them near anything that needs regular water come spring, when the garlic should stay dry.
The artichoke is a stunning plant that makes a great ornamental. In fact, unlike most garden vegetables, which are annuals that die at the end of their fruiting season, artichokes are perennials that will produce for several years. They grow to 4 feet high and just as wide across they need space.
The artichoke plant at the Garden cartier love bracelet men for the Environment is two years old, stands about 3 feet high and is bearing a nice crop. Artichoke plants are usually started from root stock sold at nurseries, but this is a piece divided from another plant and includes the stem base, young shoots and roots.
To plant your root stock, dig a hole that will comfortably accommodate the length of your root. Artichokes need well draining soil, so don't spare the compost. Toss a few handfuls into the hole and mix it thoroughly before planting your root stock, and then plant it vertically, with the shoots slightly above soil level.
Craddock waters her artichoke twice a week.
The young plant may produce a small crop the first year, but you'll have better luck in subsequent years. Harvest your artichokes while it they still are tight, plump buds. If left on the plant, they'll open into broad, purple, thistle like flowers.
Craddock says that after the plant bears fruit in the spring, she cuts the spent stalks to the ground, where new stalks sprout at the base.
The big hubbub from the class was reserved for the cover crops the fava and clover. It appears many people are looking for economical, organic alternatives to chemical fertilizers and soil conditioners.
Cover cropping also known as green manure is an old farming practice that entails growing a nutritious ground cover during fallow periods to feed and protect the soil. You're growing crops for the soil, not yourself.
This is also an out for those of you with sunny yards: Lay down a cover crop and you, too, can retire to the couch until spring.
Many plants, such as rye grass, wheat, oats and barley, are used as cover crops, but it is only the legumes beans, peas, alfalfas, clovers, vetches and other related plants that add valuable nitrogen to the soil.
In general, all cover crops protect bare soil from winter's hazards rain that leaches nutrients from it, wind that blows the top layer away and if you plant legumes, like clover and fava, you get the additional benefit of nitrogen for the soil.
The roots of these leguminous plants support rhizobacteria, which help the plant take nitrogen gases from the air and fix, or convert, them into nitrogen in the soil for the next generation of plants to use. Pull up a legume and you'll see the little pearls along its root system, where the nitrogen is actually stored.
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