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Its very name suggests that pineapple guava is planted as a food-producing shrub, but, just as often, gardeners select it as an evergreen specimen plant for its ornamental qualities.
Growing tomatoes during times of drought in Sonoma County may seem to be counterintuitive, but with careful selection, gardeners can treat tomatoes as water camels and not water hogs. Even the thirstiest tomato plant requires only one to two gallons of water per week.
Turnips and rutabagas are cool-weather vegetables with edible greens, but most frequently grown for their bulbous roots. Rutabagas are thought to be a cross between wild cabbage and turnips, all closely related cabbage family vegetables of the Brassica genus. Both are best grown during cool months.
Quarryhill Botanical Garden is now Sonoma Botanical Garden (SBG) and is under new leadership. Plans are being developed to highlight existing, and cultivate additional, California native plants on previously undeveloped acreage.
This group was put together in early 2013 to continue our work with the Jail Industries Nursery and to create a centralized place to grow plants for the Bloomin' Backyards Plant Sale.
Brassica rapa var rapa by Sonoma County Master Gardener Sandy Main Rapini or Broccoli Raab (also spelled Rabe; pronounced rob) is a green cruciferous vegetable. This vegetable resembles small heads of broccoli and is associated, particularly, with Italian, Galician and Portuguese cuisines.
A favorite in the summer garden, green beans are also called snap beans and string beans although modern varieties nearly always lack a string-like layer on the underside of pods. Choose bush varieties for early maturity with no need for support.
