When to start a vegetable garden in california
Summer Vegetable Garden Planting for Southern California : Garden Space
hi I'm Angela price from Eden condense
small space garden design and this is
garden space we are so blessed in sunny
Southern California for having great
weather throughout most of the year that
we can actually start our summer
vegetable gardens in spring whereas a
lot of the rest of the country is still
digging out from occasional snowstorms
and I want to share with you some of my
favorite vegetables that I put into my
garden and a couple that I'm going to
try this year for the first time and
maybe you'll want to try them too and
see how you do I think it's always good
to experiment in the garden and see what
works and what doesn't work so for your
garden I'm probably the one thing that
everybody wants to grow that if you only
have one choice of something to put in
your garden is tomatoes and choose a
couple of different varieties so that
you've got some cherry tomatoes as well
as some slicing Tomatoes and in Southern
California you can actually start
planting these as early as the end of
March if you want Tomatoes by June then
you can choose tomatoes that are early
ripening tomatoes that go anywhere
between 50 and 60 days to harvest
another thing I always put in my garden
are peppers and I've got a yellow bell
pepper here and a red bell pepper I also
add some spicier peppers one of my
favorite peppers are the shishito
peppers which is kind of a mildly spicy
pepper but definitely red and yellow
bell peppers which are great these do
need Heat so I usually wait until May
usually middle or end of May to put
these in so I know that I'm going to
have consistent heat in order for them
to form the best fruit I also always put
strawberries in my garden this year I'm
trying a wild strawberry variety and
these are they're a little smaller and a
little longer but they are super sweet I
also like them because they have pink
flowers on them which i think is kind of
cool most strawberry plants have white
flowers you'll definitely want to put in
Kew
and squash give these enough room to
grow one or two cucumber plants and one
or two squash plants is usually enough
for a family
otherwise you'll be giving squash to all
your neighbors but if you like to pickle
or if you like to cook a lot with squash
then put in a few more and then I also
always put in herbs I put in chives
basil of course because there it's great
with tomatoes flat leaf parsley I put
time in the garden
oregano so that way I've got a lot of
fresh herbs to cook with over the summer
one of the things I'm going to try in my
garden this summer are watermelons and
so I've got these great watermelon
seedlings you do want to wait until the
end of May or beginning of June to put
these in because watermelons do like
heat just like peppers do and they want
consistently warm soil and consistently
warm air temperatures in order for the
fruit to set so I hope you enjoyed
learning about some of the things I'm
putting in my garden as well as some
things I'm going to try and I hope you
try them too if you have any other
questions about vegetable gardening in
Southern California please contact me at
WWE and condense calm thank you very
much
