Organic gardening 2025

[akroberts]

Your in a warmer zone in northern Calif ..what growing zone?
I can't start seeds until next year we don’t warm up enough to plant seedlings outside til June . zone 8b when ground temps warm up .

I'm in 9a. I think. I have a small greenhouse that I can set up next to my hen den shed, not for chickens, and it gets plenty of light so it should work out.

 

[Shades-of-Oregon]

I'm in 9a. I think. I have a small greenhouse that I can set up next to my hen den shed, not for chickens, and it gets plenty of light so it should work out.

Great a warm zone to start seeds early.

 

[digitS']

You can find your USDA hardiness zone here:

USDA Map & zip code search

By using your zip code, it is quick and may take some of the guess work out of searching the map.

digitS'

 

[akroberts]

You can find your USDA hardiness zone here:

USDA Map & zip code search

By using your zip code, it is quick and may take some of the guess work out of searching the map.

digitS'

I know it's either 9a/9b. I'm not going to worry too much about it though because with the amount of seeds I have I can loose quite a bit and not think twice about it.

 

[ducks4you]

@Moon888 , I have eradicated bindweed from ONE bed. I took my wheelbarrow, a bucket and a spade. I kept digging until I got all of each runner, knocked the soil off into the wheelbarrow and threw the runners in my bucket.
I kept emptying the bucket into my big garage trash can.
I accidentally planted bits of bindweed outside of another bed that I was cleaning up. I had a spare piece of particle board, 18 inches by 8 ft long, that I put on top of the grass right next to the bed. Left it there for a good month and choked them out.
If the runners aren't "grave depth deep" the first method works very well. It is labor intensive. A good garden seat helps.

 

[digitS']

@akroberts ,

In those zones, you must have some Winters with no freezing.

Where my family lived when I was a toddler, in the Sacramento Valley, Redding has that hardiness zone.