Tag: seasons
Cool Season Vegetables For Autumn
UNITED STATES—Warm season vegetables will be productive until autumn. Several will produce until frost. Those that grew slowly during mild weather through last spring...
Spring Has Finally Arrived!
UNITED STATES—What is your favorite season of the year? Is it Winter, Spring, Summer or Fall? For me I’m more a fan of winter...
Warmth Accelerates Early Spring Bloom
UNITED STATES—Unseasonable warmth and dryness has been great this winter. Such weather is often an advantage of this locally mild climate. Chill never gets...
Chill Helps Plants Distinguish Seasons
UNITED STATES—The Santa Clara Valley was formerly famous for stone fruit orchards. The San Fernando Valley was formerly famous for citrus orchards. The Wenatchee...
Late Summer Bloom Until Frost
UNITED STATES—Seasonal changes keep gardening interesting. Like colors of a rainbow, seasons are not as distinct as their dates on a calendar imply. Each...
Seasonal Changes Keep Gardening Interesting
UNITED STATES—Gardening is work. The extent of such work is proportionate to the techniques and scale of the gardening. Substantial gardens likely need substantial...
Way Beyond Last Frost Date
UNITED STATES—Scheduling of gardening chores is as important now as it ever was. We plant warm season vegetables and annuals in time for spring...
Indian Summer Is The Norm
UNITED STATES—The popular definition of 'Indian summer' suggests that it is unseasonably warm and dry weather in spring or autumn, and that it typically...
Flowers For Late Summer Bloom
UNITED STATES—No mater how much work we put into our roses to sustain bloom all through the season, and no matter how successful we...
Seasons Are Constantly In Flux
UNITED STATES—Gardening requires planning. There is always planning. The vegetables that are getting harvested now are developing mostly on plants that were put out...