I’ve had a bad habit of watering my plants every 2 to 3 days – when the top layer of dirt was just starting to dry out. I just never followed proper watering techniques – letting some plants dry out a bit more, flushing the soil, and the like.
Author Archives: Scott Dee
Plants Eat Food – Trace elements
Trace elements, partially because of just how little the plants metabolize, are a little tricky to keep track of. Generally, if you’re using compost or manure or rotating your plants, these elements will never be in short supply. That being said, it’s nice to know what’s out there and what these nutrients do for the plant.
Global Day to Combat Desertification and Drought
Desertification and Drought Day is an effort to remind people that what we buy and consume comes mostly from the earth.
Plants Eat Food, pt2 – Secondary Nutrients
Calcium, Magnesium, and Sulfur. Secondary only refers to the quantity, not the importance of the nutrients. These are just as important as NPK!
Plants Eat Food, pt 1 – The Big 3
Part 1 of 4. Plants want to gobble up everything they can of 3 key macronutrients – Nitrogen, Phosphorus, and Potassium. Here’s what NPK does to plants!
Open Desert
I don’t know how long the weather and the traffic will be clear, so now’s the moment. Take a chance to enjoy the desert while everything’s blooming!
Garden Journal – Week of April 27
We try to rescue the strawberries from a cramped life of fruitlessness. And, the olive tree finally shows a problem. Is it fixable?
Planting the Sun
I’ve got plenty of seeds, plenty of random plastic cups to start the seeds, and potentially some balcony space with regular sunlight. There’s only one way to find out if these things will ever actually grow in SoCal.
Garden Journal – Week of April 20
Ever since I’ve put these peppers in, the majority of the fruit have been quite small.
I want to know why!
I miss the park
It looks like we’re coming to the end of this whole debacle.
Maybe. Probably not quite yet.
I already miss going to the park.
