This site is a collection of links that will bring you to posts I've written about raising food for my small household, listed in chronological order by loose category. Since I believe in eating well—in all senses—I believe in growing a lot of what I eat.
General Garden Information
It Began
The Double Sided Nature of Growing Food in a Desert
Ethics of Vegetable Gardening
Expanding the Plot 2007
Building the New Plot 2007
Exchanging SeedsWhy Save Seeds? The question is answered in this post.
Plant Sales
How much of our own we're able to grow
Citrus in California
Sowing
Tomatoes 2007
Seeds for Fall 2007
Fall 2007
Seed Starting 2008
Beans 2008
Beans in Pots 2008
Identifying pepper (capsicum) species for seed saving 2011
Orchard
Stone fruit and apples 2010
More on stone fruit and apples 2010
The lessons of 2010
How to mulch under an orchard 2011
Progress 2012
Thinning Fruit
Desert Delight nectarine harvest 2012
Arctic Star nectarine harvest 2012
Eva's Pride peach harvest 2012
Lady Williams Apple 2013
Growing
Peppers, Tomatoes, and Melons 2007
Root Crops Fall 2007
Green Crops Fall 2007
Managing Fava Beans and Sugar Snap Vines Winter 2008
Potatoes in Pots 2011
Salad Burnett
Fava Beans
Portuguese Cabbage
Dealing (or not) with Problems
Tomato Leaf Curl
Melons: Protecting Fruit While Growing Vertically
Bugs 2007Weeds 2008
Tomato Blossom Drop 2008Slugs and sowbugs 2011
Yellow Dwarf Virus 2011
Root Knot Nematodes
Harvesting
Basil 2007
Tomatoes 2007
Melon, Tigger 2007
Melons 2007
Peas, Favas, and Green Vegetables Winter 07-08
Armenian Cucumbers Summer 2008
Fish Pepper 2008
Rainbow Watermelon 2008
Uncle David's Dakota Dessert Winter Squash 2008
Red Ruffled Pepper 2008
Homer Fike's Yellow Oxheart Tomato 2008
Tatsoi Winter 2009
Garlic 2009
Tomatoes: Japanese Black Trifele, Teton de Venus, Eva's Purple Ball, and Opalka 2009
Tomato: Not Wes 2009
Summer Roundup 2009
How to Harvest and Cure Garlic 2010
Garlic Harvest Notes by Variety 2010
Tomatoes: Guernsey Island Pink Blush, Goose Creek, Linnie's Oxheart, Kosovo, Black and Brown Boar, Brad's Black Heart, and Green Pineapple 2010
Sweet Potatoes 2010
Sweet Potatoes 2011
Beans 2013
Other People's Gardens
An Interview with Mike Taylor
Mike Taylor's Farm
Observations of Italian Agricultural Practices
Exchanging Crops
Doctor Banana
Visiting Bill Best and the Sustainable Mountain Agriculture Center
Flying Disc Date Ranch
The Farm at Covina High School
Southern California Nurseries
UCR Citrus Collection
Lotusland
I share seeds through Seed Savers' Exchange. My code is CA WE C.
