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Laure's Gardens: The Wonderful Wonderberry
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Thursday, August 25, 2011. I came across the Wonderberry in the Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds catalog for 2011 earlier this year when I was putting together my seed orders. The first thing that caught my eye was the botanical name of Solanum burbankii. Prominent American horticulturists and plant scientists from as far as Kew Gardens in England stated that it was nothing more than a common weed ( Solanum nigrum. By the time I had rolled most of the black berries off the stems, I had about 1 ¼ cups of f...
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Laure's Gardens: August 2012
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Sunday, August 12, 2012. The National Heirloom Exposition, 2nd Annual Event, September 11, 12, &13, 2012. In just a few short weeks The National Heirloom Expositions second annual event opens at the Sonoma County Fairgrounds in Santa Rosa, California, and I can’t wait to go again. Last year’s premier event opened as the first “World’s Pure Food Fair” and what an event it became. There will be more than 75 educational speakers covering a vast array of subjects including genetically modified seeds, concern...
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Laure's Gardens: Strange Buzzing Bugs of Summer
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Monday, July 30, 2012. Strange Buzzing Bugs of Summer. I drove to the Effie. In Carmichael ( http:/ www.sacnaturecenter.net/. I checked for updates with the Essig Museum of Entomology at UC Berkeley, and the Bohart Museum of Entomology at UC Davis, and the Entomology Museum at UC Riverside, and found little to nothing about cicadas in California. So I turned back to the Internet, and after extensive searches found enough information to narrow down my “little bug” to the genus Okanagana. When I posted my ...
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Laure's Gardens: The National Heirloom Exposition, 2nd Annual Event, September 11, 12, &13, 2012
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Sunday, August 12, 2012. The National Heirloom Exposition, 2nd Annual Event, September 11, 12, &13, 2012. In just a few short weeks The National Heirloom Expositions second annual event opens at the Sonoma County Fairgrounds in Santa Rosa, California, and I can’t wait to go again. Last year’s premier event opened as the first “World’s Pure Food Fair” and what an event it became. There will be more than 75 educational speakers covering a vast array of subjects including genetically modified seeds, concern...
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Laure's Gardens: March 2011
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Friday, March 18, 2011. When my father was transferred from the east coast to Mather Air Force Base in California in 1954, it was a permanent move that meant looking for housing for our family of nine, with one more on the way. I will be forever grateful that he settled on a two-story house in a new subdivision with ¼ acre plots. Before we even got a fence built around the backyard, Dad had planted a mini-orchard with every available frui. T and nut tree he was able to find. The other trees were de.
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Laure's Gardens: February 2011
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Monday, February 28, 2011. February—A Month of Contrasts. While most of the east and Midwest were getting slam. Med by horrendous snowstorms and flooding the first part of the month, here in Northern California we experienced ano. Spring”, much li. Ke we had last year. Temperatures reached into the 70’s in some places wit. The resulting warmth causing many of the winter vegetables to bolt. My Pak Choi varieties took the biggest hit, including ‘White Stem’, ‘Ching Chang’ and ‘. Nto huge, substantial plants.
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Laure's Gardens: January 2011
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Wednesday, January 12, 2011. Now is the time to start going through your seed catalogs and putting in orders. Here are a few plants I’d recommend trying since they’ve done well for me in the past with few problems. These would be especially good for gardeners just getting started with growing vegetables for the first time. Basil ‘Italian Large Leaf’. 8212;easy to grow and a constant supply of leaves for cooking well into September. Beets ‘Cylindra’. 8212;very sweet with a deep beet flavor. 8212;also know...
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Laure's Gardens: June 2011
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Thursday, June 23, 2011. The corn block is doing exceptionally well since I set up the woven containment system for each stalk. In fact, the corn stalks have grown almost 1/2 foot since last weekend and are now up to 36" tall. This won't be the end of my worries, though. When I picked the corn variety "Honey and Cream" from the catalog, it was because the description sounded so good:. Nothing beats the old-fashioned flavor of this classic, bicolor corn. I had fixated on "old-fashioned flavor". So my plan...
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Laure's Gardens: May 2011
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Tuesday, May 17, 2011. Who’ll Stop the Rain? Unfortunately, the constant cool, wet weather has brought on another problem: slugs and snails! Posted by Laure's Gardens. Links to this post. Saturday, May 14, 2011. The greatest pleasure I get from growing my own vegetables is to start them from seeds then wait for them to germinate. It’s just that I have an innate childish excitement when I go out to the garden every morning to see if any seeds have broken through the soil overnight. The Peppers ‘Hung...
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