The Ultimate When to Plant Guide Pay attention. This may be the most valuable tidbit of gardening wisdom anyone ever hands you. Of course it also might not be. When to plant – every seed packet you pick up has a little map on the back with 4 or 5 colored zones and planting dates for each zone. As a general rule seeds that can germinate at a lower temperature are also more resistant to rot. If you study this table you will begin to understand why those melons never came up – too cool/wet and they rot, too warm – they just never germinate. If you are starting seeds indoors you can see why it’s so hard to get tomatoes to come up in that sunny (but cold at night) window – those little plugs of soil do cool off quickly unlike the soil in your garden. On the other end of the chart – when it is too hot for the seeds to germinate, most plants start to stress or die from heat, especially if they aren’t kept watered. BTW, one of those digital kitchen thermometers works great for checking soil temp.
Thy Hand Hath Provided: Spring Vegetable Planting Dates Something happened to our link to this document (Thank you for letting us know!), so I'm re-posting it here. This is a chart that Jamey created and it's what we use to know when to plant. You might not be able to see the entire chart here (depending on your screen size), so please right-click on the image and save it to your computer, then print it out because you'll want to write dates on it. In the instructions, it says to write the dates "above" the 00, etc. That's a typo.
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How To Grow A Four-Season Garden - Part 1 | One Green Generation Don’t Believe Everything You’re Told When I moved to Geyserville, California in May of last year, I was excited to grow my own food for the first time. But immediately my neighbors dashed my hopes. They told me that it was too late to grow much this year – that I’d have to wait until next year. Sure enough, I found a pamphlet put out by the local Master Gardeners, confirming that it was too late to plant most crops. Fortunately, I didn’t listen. Matt and I first amended the soil. What didn’t work? In September, our neighbors told us we would lose our garden to the rains any moment. We harvested 240 lbs. of tomatoes from 4 plants. We didn’t listen. All because we really wanted to do it and nothing was going to stop us. Ten Reasons To Grow A Four-Season Organic Garden Growing your own food reduces the distance your food travels from the farm to you (10 feet, say, versus 250-2,500 miles). When To Plant Fall and Winter Gardens Plant in early to mid-summer for a fall garden. Read On!
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Heavy Petal: Gardening: from a West Coast, urban, organic perspective. Lacinato kale, leeks, and cabbage: the makings of a great winter garden! One of the best ways to reap the most from a small-space food garden is to have something growing in your garden all year round. Don’t let plots or containers sit vacant after you harvest your tomatoes and squash! Planting hardy and fast-maturing crops in summer or early fall for fall-through-spring harvesting is often known as winter gardening. For both, you’ll want to start now. ‘Sorrento’ broccoli raab In general, you’ll want to plant quick-maturing, cool-season crops that are tolerant of frosts. Surprisingly, there are quite a few edibles you can start from seed now. Great winter-garden edibles to start from seed: Arugula. Asian and mustard greens. Broad beans. Broccoli raab. Carrots. Cilantro. Green onions (scallions). Corn salad (mache or lamb’s lettuce). Endive. Kohlrabi. Lettuces. Spinach. Turnips. ‘Tyee’ spinach Broccoli Brussels sprouts Cabbage Cauliflower Chard Collard greens Leeks Kale Finally, there’s garlic.
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UK minister for loneliness aims to tackle isolation - CNN Tracey Crouch will take on the role and lead a cross-party group, honoring a recommendation made in a report on the 2016 murder of Jo Cox MP by a right-wing extremist. The Jo Cox Commission on Loneliness was created as a response to the MP's own experience of isolation. "This is an issue that Jo cared passionately about and we will honor her memory by tackling it, helping the millions of people across the UK who suffer from loneliness," Crouch said in a statement. May was due to host a reception at Downing Street on Wednesday to pay tribute to Cox and her family. "Loneliness is the sad reality of modern life," the prime minister said. "I want to confront this challenge for our society and for all of us to take action to address the loneliness endured by the elderly, by carers, by those who have lost loved ones, people who have no one to talk to or share their thoughts and experiences with." How isolation damages health Loneliness can also affect health in other ways.
Heavy Social Media Use Linked To Isolation In Young Adults Young adults who spend more than two hours a day on social media are more apt to feel isolated. James Whitaker/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption James Whitaker/Getty Images For young adults, social media may not be so social after all. Among people in that age group, heavy use of platforms such as Facebook, Snapchat and Instagram was associated with feelings of social isolation, a study finds. The results surprised study co-author Brian Primack. While face-to-face social connectedness is strongly associated with well-being, it's not clear what happens when those interactions happen virtually. This study can't nail down causation. "You might watch all these interactions where it seems like everyone else is connecting," he says. It could be that influence goes both ways — isolation drives social media use and vice versa. Primack says the results shouldn't be interpreted to mean that we should ditch our social media accounts, but there's a lot to dig into to see how best to use them.