Food Growing And Gardening

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Winter Squash on the vine, Marin Edible Demonstration Garden photo Marty Nelson
UC Marin Master Gardeners: Document

Squash - Winter

How to grow Winter Squash, Curcurbita pepo (acorn) and Cucurbita maxima (butternut).Winter squash originated in the Americas and thrives in Marin's Mediterranean climate. Varieties include acorn, butternut, Hubbard, pumpkin, and spaghetti squash. Bush and vining varieties available.
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summer harvest
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Vegetable Grow Sheets

What Edible Gardens Need | Best Choices for Marin | Preparing | Planting & Spacing | Edibles in Containers | Planting Calendar | Grow & Care Sheets | Tips & Techniques |  Maintenance | Top 20 Problems in Edible Gardens | Fruit Trees | Cover Crops & Soil Enhancements | Conserving Water…
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Banner Edibles
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News from the Edible Demo Garden

What Edible Gardens Need | Best Choices for Marin | Preparing | Planting & Spacing | Edibles in Containers | Planting Calendar | Grow & Care Sheets | Tips & Techniques |  Maintenance | Top 20 Problems in Edible Gardens | Fruit Trees | Cover Crops & Soil Enhancements | Conserving…
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monthly food garden tips for Sonoma County
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Food Gardening Tasks and Tips by Month

Food Gardening Tasks and Tips for each month in Sonoma County home gardeners. Click on the month for the list of key tasks for a healthy food garden.
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Food gardening with less water information for Sonoma County
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Food Gardening with Less Water

Find a video and additional resources to have a food garden in Sonoma County with limited available water, with tips to scale planting to your family’s likes and needs, and apply water-wise strategies to your vegetable garden.
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planting kale
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Edibles in Containers

Containers can provide a quick and easy way to grow edibles A great solution when growing space is limited Locate to be convenient and accessible Relocate to protect edibles from bad weather Create visual interest in outside living areas Avoids soil borne diseases in native garden soil Reduces...
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Pile of long red and yellow peppers
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Spring Garden Fair Peppers/Chiles

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.
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Photo: UC, Jack Kelly Clark
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Potatoes

Potatoes are tubers that grow underground from the stem of the plant. While it's possible to grow potatoes from seed, most gardeners plant pieces cut from seed potatoes. Ensure that each cut piece includes an 'eye'. Allow the pieces to dry for 1 to 3 days before planting. Use certified seed potatoes rather…
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Asparagus, from UC ANR repository, no attribution required
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Asparagus

Asparagus is a perennial plant that can produce for years if grown with care. Choose a site in full sun and prepare the soil well. The plants send up 5-foot tall, ferny growth over the summer, so plant them where they won’t undesirably shade other plants. Asparagus plants can be either male or female. The…
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Tips to grow dill in your Sonoma County home food garden
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Dill

Graceful in the garden, dill plants attract beneficial insects to their flat-headed, yellow flowers and offer both seeds and leaves, called dill weed, when dried.
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