Celebrate the season with family and friends on Sunday, October 8 at City Farm SLO’s 1st Annual Fall Harvest Festival at the Calle Joaquin Agricultural Reserve, 1221 Calle Joaquin, San Luis Obispo. From 1 to 5 p.m. experience a fun, interactive afternoon between farmers and the public, especially children and see the results of the activity that has been taking place … [Read more...]
Summer Vegetables Enjoy Warming Weather
If there are any cool-season vegetables left in the garden, they should probably be harvested pretty soon. If left too much longer, they will be ruined by warming weather. Cabbage will bolt (start to bloom) once it realizes that it is spring. Cauliflower and broccoli, which are juvenile flowers, will become bitter as the flowers mature and try to bloom. This is beside the … [Read more...]
Big Boost for SLO Botanical Garden
The San Luis Obispo Botanical Garden received a $2,500 grant from Pacific Gas and Electric Company to support its educational programs and the Fire Safe Garden. The one-acre Fire Safe Garden shows homeowners the best plants and locations to prevent damage from wildfires. The grant will be used to install rope guides around the Fire Safe Garden. The PG&E grant will also … [Read more...]
Pots Make More Of Less
As conservation of water is important in this drought, annuals are not a priority when choosing what to water and what not to water. Many are trying to use as little water as possible, and choose to keep only the more significant trees, shrubbery and perennials alive until winter. The lawn and annuals are usually the first to succumb, mainly because they use more water than … [Read more...]
Eucalypti Are Innately Drought Tolerant
Drought is nothing new here. There might yet be plenty of rain this year and for a few years afterward; but eventually, there will be another series of dry winters, prompting rationing all over again. Landscapers and big box garden centers continue with business as usual. It is up to us to manage our gardens responsibly. Even though they are not native, aloes, yuccas, junipers … [Read more...]
Good Looks Are Not Everything
More flowers bloom as winter becomes early spring than at any other time of year. For many flowers, bloom is significantly accelerated by the unseasonably warm weather in February. Flowering cherry, purple leaf plum and most of the stone fruit trees (such as almond, cherry, apricot, nectarine, peach, plum, prune and all their various hybrids) have already bloomed. Color is … [Read more...]
Only Arborists Specialize In Trees
Just as most problems in landscapes are caused by maintenance gardeners hired to maintain it, many trees problems are caused by those hired to fix the problem. Arboriculture, the horticulture of trees, should be performed, or at least directed, by a professional arborists. It is unrealistic to expect this specialized service to be done properly by those lacking education and … [Read more...]
