Antonio Garden Photos on-line

November 8, 2009 By mike 1 Comment

We have been taking photos of construction of the Antonio Garden. The photo gallery pages on my gardening coaches website does a better job of presenting pictures, so check out the galleries of construction photos…

If you want to know more about why we are going to all this trouble, read the special, free Raised Bed Garden Report…

Don and Jacky Wallace’s photos from day 1

Helen Keane photos from Day 1

October 30th workday photos by Don Wallace

Thanks to Agromin for the top soil and compost!

Somebody hose me down! I can’t stop the videos (better than voices, I guess)… Here’s a biggie – and everybody is in it. Ready for our close-ups…

YouTube seems to hate the hi-res version, so I put it here for you to view or download (after all, you are the star!)

Click here to view or download the hi-res video

And some slideshow videos - ‘The Garden’…

and ‘Compost Happens‘ featuring the ladies of the garden…

‘Steaming Compost’…

and a Thank You to Agromin!

Filed Under: Community Gardens Tagged With: Agromin, Antonio Garden, Camarillo Community Garden

Antonio Garden Water System Work Day

October 18, 2009 By mike Leave a Comment

We had a few volunteers show up today to put in the water system for the Antonio Garden today in spite of the heat and the weekend day-off. We got as much done as we could. We need to wait for installation of an isolation device to protect the community drinking water supply from any possible contamination.

As soon as the device is installed, we finish the hook up, flush it out and garden.

See the photos and read the article in the website’s ‘News Page’

Filed Under: Community Gardens Tagged With: Antonio Garden, Camarillo Community Garden

Vegetable Garden Design

July 2, 2009 By mike Leave a Comment

Vegetable Garden Design.

Here is a quick review of a piece of software I use and recommend. It is called GrowVeg, and it is an on-line, light-weight Java application that runs in your browser – you don’t even have to load any software.

You start by setting your location and climate zone, and giving a name to your garden(s).

GrowVeg provides a drag-and-drop interface that lets you first design your garden area, then drag crops to your garden lay-out and stretch the rows out to fit. When you are done, it prints planting charts with dates for starting, setting out and harvesting each crop, number of plants needed, and more.

Successive seasons are planned starting with a copy of you garden. As you add new crops to the garden, it reminds you to practice crop rotation.

Go to Vegetable Garden Design for the complete review.

Filed Under: Gardening, Reviews Tagged With: Camarillo Community Garden, planning a vegetable garden, small garden design, vegetable garden design

Welcome to Camarillo Community Gardens Blog

July 2, 2009 By mike 3 Comments

151icon Welcome to Camarillo Community Gardens Blog

Community Gardeners

Welcome to Camarillo Community Gardens’ Blog site. This is the companion site to our main Camarillo Community Gardens web site. We will be discussing interesting and trivial ideas about the local garden and gardeners…

One thing of current importance is Opening a New Garden in Camarillo. Click here to read about and sign-up for our newest garden.

Our group, Camarillo Community Gardens, is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization that is dedicated to providing gardening opportunities and education to the citizens of Camarillo and the surrounding area.

This ‘Home’ page contains the last few posts, and can cover a wide range of subjects. There are also pages with articles on different gardening subjects. You will find some interesting ideas for your garden in the videos and articles on various types of gardening. Please feel free to leave comments or questions on any post or page.

While you are here, you can subscribe to the RSS feeds listed on the right. These feeds will notify you when new posts or comments replies are made. If you have never been to a blog before, Click here for a quick video tour of this blog.

We built, planted and HARVESTED our first community garden and working on a second, larger garden! Here’s where the Antonio Garden is today – a far cry from the empty lot we started with!

Make sure to crank up the volume!

Please check out the newest video, Dr. De Soto’s talk on the Asian Citrus Psyllid and the disease and danger it brings with it to our citrus trees. The post with the Asian Citrus Psyllid video is here.

(aside:)

A number of you with big photo albums have asked how I made the Antonio Garden celebration video, so I put up a blog about my Digital Slide Shows made with Animoto here…

There is a lot of information packed away in these pages. Read the First article: Vegetable Gardening Basics

Filed Under: Gardening Tagged With: Camarillo Community Garden, Master Gardeners, Ventura County Master Gardeners, video