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Here in Santa Clara County, we can grow vegetables year round. This Vegetable Planting Chart provides month-by-month planting times for warm and cool season vegetables.
Vegetable Garden Basics: Information on successful vegetable gardening and how to get started
Vegetable talks and tips videos: Full length…
Garden HelpLandscape assistanceThe Green Gardener program trains landscape professionals to use sustainable maintenance practices. They provide a list of Santa Clara Valley Green Gardeners who provide professional landscape design, construction, and/or maintenance services.Guidelines on how to hire a…
Santa Clara Valley, also known as the Valley of Heart’s Delight, is an ideal place for growing a wide variety of fruits & nuts. UC Master Gardeners can help you determine how to get started, how to nurture young trees, and how to get the most out of mature trees.
Garden Help Our Garden Help pages for vegetables, fruits, and nuts have growing tips as well as links to information on pests and diseases common in our area.
Browse gardening information from the Santa Clara County Master Gardeners. Plant topics include vegetables, fruits and nuts, herbs, succulents, and more. Plus, find help about gardening techniques such as container gardening, and links to many gardening tips.
Generation Connection Teaching Garden Started in 1985, this gardening project is designed to connect adults and children through exploration of life within a garden. It uses the outdoor garden classroom on the Santa Clara Adult Education campus and offers many plants and animals for young children…
This is a summary of what we learned from our 2001 tomato project in regards to tomato staking methods. We grew just over a hundred varieties of mostly heirloom tomatoes at the now closed University of California Bay Area Research and Extension Center facility in the City of Santa Clara.
Spring Garden Fair tomatoes descriptions. We offer a wide selection of delicious tomato seedlings, from huge beefsteaks to bite-size cherry tomatoes, both heirloom and modern varieties, in a rainbow of colors. All have been trialed by UC Master Gardeners.
We offer a wide range of delicious and unusual pepper/chile seedlings from around the world—India, South America, Mexico, Africa, USA and more. Whether you like sweet and juicy or hot and searing, you‘ll find many choices to please your palate.