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Lettuce, broccoli, cabbage, peas, radishes, parsley, spinach, carrots and other cool season vegetables can be planted as soon as you can work the soil.
Squash plants are monoecious (moun-e-she-us), which means they have male flowers and female flowers on the same plant. However, if pollen does not get from one to the other, pollination and fertilization do not occur and the potential fruit aborts.
The following are some causes for the poor seed germination and dead seedlings in your garden. Cutworms. The adult is a brownish-gray moth about one inch long (head to tail) with a two-inch wing span. The larvae is a gray, brown, pale pink with black specks worm which lives in the soil.
Many commercial avocados are now routinely pruned to keep the trees short, so that harvesting costs and other tree maintenance expenses are reduced. Also more light shines into the trees, so that more fruit is borne on the lower branches.
Purslane is a prolific seed producer. Even a small plant (2-3 inches in diameter) will have started to produce seeds. The fleshy leaves of purslane also make the plant resistant to drying out.
The following information was taken from a bulletin prepared by Nick Sakovich and Ben Faber Farm Advisors in Ventura County. Seriously frozen leaves collapse, dry out, and remain on the plant. Foliage from recent flushes is most susceptible to this damage.
Virtually all fruit trees are grafted onto a rootstock, which in case of apricot could be another apricot or a plum. Rootstocks are selected for their vigor, also their disease and nematode resistance.
There are several products available. All contain naphthaleneacetic acid (NAA) or ethephon. These chemicals will cause flowers to abort at blossom time. NAA and ethephon should be applied as a spray at mid-bloom and again at full bloom. The entire tree should be sprayed.
In the wild strawberries are perennial, thus will grow for many years in the same location if cared for properly. I would suggest you cut all the plants back to three to four leaves each. Remove all the dead and old leaves and other plant debris and put them in the green waste can.
Tomatoes are a warm season crop. They are native to central and South America. As such they are sensitive to cool temperatures. Tomato flowers are self-fertile, i.e., the pollen (male) of a flower can fertilize the egg (female) of the same flower.
