Joshua Siskin has tips for what you should do in the garden this week.
5 things to do in the garden this week:It takes around three weeks for the seeds to germinate and another 40 days for the seedlings to be strong enough to be moved into the garden as fall arrives. Pansy seeds sprout quickest in the dark so, ascertaining that the soil remains moist, they can be kept in the garage until germination. You can remove the concern about moistening the soil through use of a capillary mat. This is a mat made of felt to which water is applied.
The deep roots of winter rye break up hard soil and the winter rye itself – growing to a height of five feet – adds considerable organic matter to the soil when cut down and dug into the earth. Amy Goldman, considered by some to be the pre-eminent vegetable gardener in America – evidenced by her scholarly and award-winning books on growing tomatoes, squash, and melons – plants winter rye each fall to replenish her soil prior to spring planting.
While the classic honeybee – an import from Europe – can do this job, there are 1,600 bee species native to California that can achieve the same result, only more efficiently. The advantage of native bees is that they do not live in hives and thus nearly all the pollen that they pick up is deposited on flowers as opposed to honeybees that bring most of the pollen they harvest back to their colony.
Any plant starved of sunlight will eventually die off since all of its energy will be expended on stems trying to reach the light while roots will cease to grow. For those serious about weed abatement but lacking a source for mulch, the “uproot weeder” has claws that get under the weed, turning and twisting it around, even as a drill penetrates the ground in the center of the weed, extracting a core of soil along with the root.
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