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A regenerative garden depends on strong, adaptable plants that can thrive with fewer inputs and still produce reliable harvests. After decades of growing vegetables year-round in Sonoma Valley, one lesson has remained constant: the varieties you choose determine how resilient your garden will be. Some varieties naturally stand up better to heat, cold, drought, pests,…
June is a busy month in the garden, marked by rapid growth and long, warm days. Warm-season vegetables are maturing, and now is the time for successive sowings to maintain a continuous harvest. Summer crops like beans, squash, cucumbers, and melons are going in the ground or being transplanted, while heat-loving herbs and perennials flourish….
May is the month when the garden is in full swing. Frost risk has mostly passed, soil is warming, and warm-season crops can finally go in the ground. This is the time for direct sowing, transplanting, and succession planting to keep beds productive all season. In addition to planting, May is also about supporting seedlings…
Growing tomatoes successfully starts with strong seedlings. Having grown tomatoes for decades, I’ve learned that the right planting time, careful seed starting, and strategic potting up make all the difference between weak plants and a bumper crop. In this guide, I’ll share the best practices I’ve relied on to start tomatoes indoors and prepare them…
Successful seed and seedlings’ growth depends on moisture, warmth, air, and light. Seeds and seedlings require optimal temperatures, even watering, open-air circulation, and bright light to thrive. When a seed fails to sprout or a seedling fails to thrive there is usually a simple and easily correctable reason. Here are the most common reasons seeds…
Here are seed starting tips–both indoors and outdoors–and the schedule for April zone-by-zone. If you are unfamiliar with the USDA zone where you live, look at the minimum annual temperature guideline following each zone. Soil and Seed Starting Mix Getting seed started indoors is essentially the same as sowing seed outdoors directly in the garden….
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