Food Growing And Gardening

Top tips for a successful vegetable garden: Choose a flat, sunny location with well-drained soil. Vegetables need at a minimum of 6–8 hours of sun. Full sun is best. Prepare your soil well before you plant. Thoroughly remove all weeds, dig to loosen the soil, and amend with compost and fertilizer as needed…

Find a video and additional resources to have a food garden in Sonoma County with limited available water, with tips to scale planting to your family’s likes and needs, and apply water-wise strategies to your vegetable garden.

We offer a wide range of delicious and unusual pepper/chile seedlings from around the world—India, South America, Mexico, Africa, USA and more. Whether you like sweet and juicy or hot and searing, you’ll find many choices to please your palate.

Monitor the garden for pests and diseases as you maintain it. Photo: Courtesy UC Regents Once the fruit trees, berries, herbs and vegetables are planted, the magic begins. Even seasoned gardeners marvel at how the seed becomes the plant that produces a vegetable that appears on a plate.

Fall Garden Fair vegetable descriptions. In Santa Clara County, we can grow delicious vegetables year round. Our cool season lets us grow vegetables that are typically grown as early spring vegetables elsewhere in the U.S.

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Transplant: May–June, possibly late April For best results, wait until daytime temperatures are regularly over 75°F Start in pots for transplants: February–April; ready to transplant in 8 weeks

When to plant: February–April (possibly May) Potatoes usually mature 90–120 days after planting (depending on the variety). You can harvest a few at a time and leave the rest until you are ready to eat them. When you "rob" potatoes—for smaller, more tender new potatoes—be careful not to damage the plant…

Edible gardens are certainly not immune to pests and diseases. Pests can take out tender young plant shoots in one night, eat holes in mature leaves and fruit, and leave slimy tracks all over.

Join us for our Fall Garden Fair, held at our Martial Cottle Park Demonstration Garden in San Jose as part of the Martial Cottle Park Fall Festival. Admission: Free.