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Only a few good-quality tools are necessary for a small home garden: Spade or spading fork. Use to turn the ground, to turn under the organic matter, and to break up large clumps of soil. Rake. Use to smooth out the soil after spading and after preparing the seedbed.
You can grow many vegetables from seed, but you can also buy young plants from a nursery. Nursery plants are grown from seed under sheltered conditions and are started earlier than you could safely plant the seed outdoors.
Growing your own transplants indoors can extend your gardening season by several weeks, reduce your gardening costs, and allow you to grow transplants of some of the hard-to-find varieties of crops.
Artichokes are perennial (annual in low desert regions) cool-season vegetables with silver-green foliage. The bud, or immature flower, is the part of the artichoke that is harvested.
Asparagus is a very hardy, perennial, cool-season vegetable that can live 12 to 15 years or longer. It is one of the most valuable early vegetables and is well adapted to freezer storage. During the harvest period, spears develop daily from underground crowns.
Welcome to your future guide for growing vegetables and fruits in California! We're building a comprehensive resource to help you grow delicious, healthy food in your garden.
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