I live in southern California, and I’m working on amending my soil with home grown compost (I won’t use the stuff that comes in bags), but I still have some areas that are the poor sandy soils of this region. I’m going to eventually turn this into a vegetable plot, and I already have native plants. What kinds of vegetables, herbs, or even cover crops might grow well here to start out with?
Thanks for any help.
Posted in Herb Gardening
Tagged compost, crops, herbs, home, kinds of vegetables, native plants, plot, poor sandy soils, region, sandy soil, soil, southern california, stuff, vegetable, vegetable plot
I’m in Southern California, and I wanted to grow some potted climbing vines on a trellis to make a privacy wall on my patio. I love bouganvillias so I started there. While they flower often, they are long and spindly instead of full — they’re not providing the privacy screen I wanted. Do pots just limit the roots and therefore the growth of bouganvillias? Is there a trick to helping it grow nice and full, or should I be trying another potted vine that would provide fuller coverage of the trellis?
The pot is pretty big — about 18 inches across. The patio is sunny most of the day, shady in early morning.
Posted in Flower Gardening
Tagged bouganvillias, climbing vines, Coverage, flower, growth, patio, pots, privacy, privacy screen, roots, Screen, southern california, trellis, Trick, vine, wall
I want to grow a great garden with tons of veggies and herbs not to many fruits though. So what do you say can you help me.
I just asked a question in the same categorie maybe you can answer that one to please.
Posted in Herb Gardening
Tagged fruit, fruits, garden, great garden, herb, herb garden, herbs, southern california, vegetable, veggies
1. Your co-worker has 8 body piercings and none are visible.
2. You make over $300,000 and still can’t afford a house.
3. You take a bus and are shocked at two people carrying on a conversation in English.
4. Your child’s 3rd-grade teacher has purple hair, a nose ring, and is named Flower.
5. You can’t remember . . is pot illegal?
6. You attend a baby shower for two mothers and a sperm donor.
7. You have a very strong opinion about where your coffee beans are grown, and you can taste the difference between Sumatran and Ethiopian.
8. You can’t remember . . . is pot illegal?
9. A really great parking space can totally move you to tears.
10. Gasoline costs $1.00 per gallon more than anywhere else in the U.S.
11. Unlike back home, the guy at 8:30 am at Starbucks coffee shop, wearing a baseball cap, and sunglasses who looks like George Clooney
really IS George Clooney.
12. Your car insurance costs as much as your house payment.
13. You can’t remember . . .is pot illegal?
14. It’s barely sprinkling rain and there’s a report on every news station: “STORM WATCH.”
15. You pass an elementary school playground and the children are all busy with their cell phones or iPods.
16. It’s barely sprinkling rain outside, so you leave for work an hour early to avoid all the weather-related accidents.
17. HEY!!!! Is pot illegal????
18. Both you AND your dog have therapists.
19. The Terminator is your Governor.
20. If you drive illegally, they take away your driver’s license. If you’re here illegally, they want to give you a driver’s license
Posted in Flower Gardening
Tagged body, body piercings, co worker, none, southern california
i live in southern california, and i have a cymbidium, “marie carter” thats has a spike, but for some reason it already passed almost 2 months and the spike only grew about 8 inches, it has not grown more and there is no sign of the flower buds coming out of the spike…am feeding it “more grow fertilizer 30-10-10″ …does any one know if it takes this long for it to grow and how long would it take to see the buds coming out. or am feeding it a wrong fretilizer.
i live in southern california, and i have a cymbidium, “maureen carter” thats has a spike, but for some reason it already passed almost 2 months and the spike only grew about 8 inches, it has not grown more and there is no sign of the flower buds coming out of the spike…am feeding it “more grow fertilizer 30-10-10″ …does any one know if it takes this long for it to grow and how long would it take to see the buds coming out. or am feeding it a wrong fretilizer.
Posted in Flower Gardening
Tagged California, carter, cymbidium, Cymbidiums, cymbidiums orchids, Feeding, fertilizer, flower, flower buds, marie, marie carter, reason, sign, southern california, Spike
I need a plant or flower that I can keep in a pot that can stand being in full sun. My pation gets the hottest afternoon sun, and everything I buy just dies because it is too hot.
I prefer no cactus or succulents.
It can be any size as long as I can keep it in a pot.
Posted in Flower Gardening
Tagged afternoon, afternoon sun, everything, flower, kind, pation, plant, pot, southern california, sun
What flowers would be good to grow in May in southern California for someone who has trouble keeping things alive? If any.
I found a small plant today near Palos Verdes (Southern California) in a loose, rocky cliff canyon next to the ocean. The plant is green, succulent, and the entire plant and stems are covered in tiny pearl-like water-filled sacs/globes. They look like jewels. The stems terminate into a small reddish looking berry/bud. Any ideas?
Here are some pictures that I just took:
http://cars.xraysolutions.net/plant1.JPG
http://cars.xraysolutions.net/plant2.JPG
Posted in Berry Garden
Tagged BERRY, bud, CANYON, cliff, cliff canyon, Globes, JEWELS, ocean, Palos, palos verdes, plant, reddish, rocky cliff, southern california, stems, Succulent, today, Verdes
I learned that Southern Californians can garden all year long because it doesn’t get colder than 60 degrees. Apparently a pepper plant, for instance, can be productive for over a year. My question is, does the pepper / tomato plant just stop making peppers after a year but still stand there looking green, so that the gardner notices that it’s not producing and then digs it up and replaces it? Or does the pepper plant get brown and die on its own?
I’ve always lived in the midwest, where the first frosts kill off all plant life off in the winter, so this is new information for me.
Posted in Vegetable Garden
Tagged climate, end, instance, life, pepper, pepper plant, plant, question, southern california, southern californians, tomato, tomato plant, vegetable, vegetable plant, year
I’m purchasing a nursery in southern california with a partner. I want to get some ideas about whats in demand. I already know about goji berries , Japanese maple and green tea plants. Do you have any idea.
thanks
Posted in Berry Garden
Tagged California, demand, goji, goji berries, green tea, idea, japanese maple, Maple, money, nursery, partner, southern california, tea, tea plants, trees and plants
