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.

 

[akroberts]

I'm about 40 miles south of Redding.

 

[digitS']

That would put you past Red Bluff, akroberts.

I remember living with my grandmother and listening to news on the radio. (Television was completely new in those days.)

Hot days in Redding –– Red Bluff was always hotter!

digitS'

 

[akroberts]

That would put you past Red Bluff, akroberts.

I remember living with my grandmother and listening to news on the radio. (Television was completely new in those days.)

Hot days in Redding –– Red Bluff was always hotter!

digitS'

Yes. I'm about 14 miles South of Red Bluff. Now days it's always hotter in Redding than Red Bluff.

 

[Dahlia]

That would put you past Red Bluff, akroberts.

I remember living with my grandmother and listening to news on the radio. (Television was completely new in those days.)

Hot days in Redding –– Red Bluff was always hotter!

digitS'

We used to go water skiing at Shasta Lake. It was SO hot - we always got burnt to a crisp!