Here in Santa Clara County, we can grow vegetables year round. This Vegetable Planting Chart provides month-by-month planting times for warm and cool season vegetables.
Vegetable Garden Basics: Information on successful vegetable gardening and how to get started
Vegetable talks and tips videos: Full length…
April gardening tips for Santa Clara County, categorized by To-Dos, What to Plant, or Pests and Diseases. Tips are available for each month, as well as tips that are applicable for every month.
When to plant: February to March
Harvest window: July to October, depending on variety
Fertilization: Light (if any) nitrogen in the spring; monitor for possible zinc and potassium needs
Prune in the dormant season, using the pruning system (cane or spur pruning) based on the grape variety.
Fourteen varieties of cucumbers were compared for flavor and production. Stallion White and Japanese Climbing ranked top in flavor. Marketmore 76 was top in production.
This trial was conducted in the summer of 2008 at our Nine Palms project location (no longer in use). Peaches & Cream corn was reliably productive over an extended harvest period.
Master Gardeners offer classes on Growing Food in Tahoe during the summer months in Lake Tahoe. Listed below are some of our prior presentations on some specific edible plants.
Central Sierra Master Gardeners list of UCANR publications for home gardening, including native plants, deer resistant plant list, bee-friendly garden recipes, composting, vegetable gardening, proper fertilizing, more!
If you are committed to sharing and teaching information to others, the Master Gardeners of Sonoma County offer you the opportunity to learn and to use your knowledge of gardening to serve the community.
Kohlrabi, a member of the Brassicaceae (cabbage) family, is little-known to home gardeners despite its easy culture and versatile use when cooked or enjoyed raw. Its flavor and texture have been compared both to turnips and water chestnuts for its crunch stir fried, as a relish, or in salads.
