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Feed Your Soil, Cool Season Edition
We are transitioning from the summer gardening season to cool season vegetables and flowers. However, maybe you don’t want to put in cool season crop…
7 months ago
Who's Eating the Tomatoes?
Don from Indiana has a late summer visitor to his tomato plants. He is not pleased:
“I flicked 10 of these “bad boys” off one of my tomato plants last…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
More Tips for a Successful Garden
While editing Episode 406 of the Garden Basics with Farmer Fred podcast (out now), I was taking copious notes, about all the great garden tips Don Sh…
8 months, 1 week ago
This Newsletter is for the Birds
In the podcast (above) retired UC Farm Advisor Rachel Long has tips for attracting songbirds to your property.
They're nice to look at, sing wonderful…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
Garden Tips from the Experts
One of the best places to get your garden questions answered (or pick up the 2026 Sac Co Master Gardener Gardening Guide and Calendar) is at the annu…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
Drip Irrigation: How Long Do I Water?
90% of all plant problems are water related, either too much or too little.
Compounding the problem: gardeners who are operating a drip irrigation sy…
9 months, 1 week ago
Aromatic Plants, and Roses Too!
This edition of the newsletter is a deeper dive into this week’s Garden Basics with Farmer Fred podcast, Episode 398, “Aromatic Plants, Plus Roses!” …
10 months ago
Grow a Gratitude Garden
The above audio track is from a long time ago, when things were - at the very least -tense. It was during the initial panic as COVID-19 struck the Un…
10 months, 1 week ago
Prune Off Tomato Flowers?
One question I have been getting a lot of lately: Should I prune off (snip off, pinch out) the first tomato flowers that appear, in order to get more…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Growing Microgreens
Today’s Beyond the Garden Basics Newsletter expands upon a topic we were briefly discussing in Episode 395 of the Garden Basics Podcast, “Survival Ga…
10 months, 3 weeks ago