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Sweet potatoes are a warm-weather crop. They require a long, hot growing season. Sweet potatoes are grown from rooted cuttings, called “slips” or “draws”. Slips are best started indoors from sweet potato tubers. Slips stated indoors take about 12 weeks to reach transplant size. Transplant sweet potato slips into the garden after all danger of…
Seed catalogs and seed packets often list short codes after a variety name—such as V, F1, or PM. These codes tell you what diseases the variety can tolerate, resist, or avoid. Understanding them helps you choose crops that will thrive in a regenerative garden with fewer inputs and better long-term health. What “Resistance” Really Means…
November is the month when the garden settles into winter mode. In most regions, planting slows or stops altogether, and the focus turns to protecting crops, caring for soil, and harvesting what remains. In mild climates, however, November is still an active planting window for cool-season vegetables that will mature through winter and early spring….
Starting vegetables from seed is one of the most rewarding and cost-effective ways to grow a productive garden. With the right timing, tools, and know-how, you can raise strong, healthy seedlings indoors or sow directly outdoors for vigorous plants all season long. After more than 30 years of starting seeds year-round in Sonoma Valley—indoors under…
Starting plants from seed is easy. You can start vegetables, herbs, and flowers from seed. Seed starting requires a bit of time and space. The effort will be rewarding. Many more varieties of vegetables and flowers–both annuals and perennials– are available in seed than are young seedlings or starts offered at garden centers or nurseries….
There are three ways to get your vegetable garden growing: Starting seed indoors will give you the following: Good Products for Seed Starting Success at Amazon: Crops best started from seed in the garden Some crops are not easily transplanted into the garden. These crops simply want to be handled as little as possible; they…
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