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Hot Weather Gardening Part 1: Bikram Gardening

August 20, 2020 GardenZeus Northern California / GardenZeus Southern California / New and Now / Organic Gardening: Vegetables / The Mighty Garden Archive By: C. Darren Butler

In hot-summer California areas, the period of high heat from mid-or-late-summer until weather cools during fall is the slowest period of the year for gardening.

Fall and Winter California Gardening Part 1: Introduction

August 20, 2020 GardenZeus Northern California / GardenZeus Southern California / New and Now / Organic Gardening: Vegetables / The Mighty Garden Archive By: C. Darren Butler

California marches to its own seasonal gardening drummer, one that's different almost everywhere when compared to the rest of the United States.

Planning for New Vegetable Gardens: Decompact Soil Slowly

August 6, 2020 GardenZeus Northern California / GardenZeus Southern California / New and Now / Organic Gardening: Vegetables / The Mighty Garden Archive By: C. Darren Butler

Slow methods for soil decompaction rely on soil life rather than mechanical loosening or human effort.

Planning for New Vegetable Gardens: Decompact Soil Quickly

July 14, 2020 GardenZeus Northern California / GardenZeus Southern California / New and Now / Organic Gardening: Vegetables / The Mighty Garden Archive By: C. Darren Butler

Planting in compacted soils almost guarantees plant problems and little or no yield.

Planning for New Vegetable Gardens: Introduction to Soil Compaction

June 28, 2020 GardenZeus Northern California / GardenZeus Southern California / New and Now / Organic Gardening: Vegetables / The Mighty Garden Archive By: C. Darren Butler

Soil compaction is the process by which soil particles become pressed together so that soil becomes more dense,

Planning for New Vegetable Gardens: Common Causes of Soil Toxicity

June 11, 2020 GardenZeus Northern California / GardenZeus Southern California / New and Now / Organic Gardening: Vegetables / The Mighty Garden Archive By: C. Darren Butler

It's common for gardens to fail as a result of toxic metals or other toxicities.

Planning for New Vegetable Gardens: Introduction to Soil Toxicity

June 7, 2020 GardenZeus Northern California / GardenZeus Southern California / New and Now / Organic Gardening: Vegetables / The Mighty Garden Archive By: C. Darren Butler

Soil toxicity is anything in soil that is harmful or could be harmful to plants, people, pets, or wildlife.

Planning for New Vegetable Gardens: Timing

April 24, 2020 GardenZeus Northern California / GardenZeus Southern California / New and Now / Organic Gardening: Vegetables / The Mighty Garden Archive By: C. Darren Butler

Intuitive recognition of environmental conditions and patterns, and experience with the "feel" of successful timing in a given season, climate, and area is as important or more important than fact-based knowledge or anything that can be learned from research.

Planning for New Vegetable Gardens: Seasonality

April 18, 2020 GardenZeus Northern California / GardenZeus Southern California / New and Now / Organic Gardening: Vegetables / The Mighty Garden Archive By: C. Darren Butler

Much of California has a dry Mediterranean climate with mild, rainy winters and warm-to-hot dry summers, often with little or no rain from spring to fall or winter.

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