by FreckledCalifornian | May 22, 2024 | Fruits & Vegetables, Gardening 101, Gardening Guides & Tips, How to Grow
Blueberry Varieties For Southern California Today’s blogpost is gonna be short and sweet—because we’re talking about some sweet homegrown blueberries of course! Blueberries are known to be somewhat elusive for us gardeners here in Southern California, but...
by FreckledCalifornian | Apr 17, 2024 | Fruits & Vegetables, Gardening 101, Gardening Guides & Tips, How to Grow
Caring for Newly Planted Fruit Trees Currently, we have a mix of trees in my garden—everything from seven year old trees to brand new bare roots we potted up this season. The other day I was thinning some of the fruit on our multi-graft peach tree and realized...
by FreckledCalifornian | Mar 14, 2024 | Fruits & Vegetables, Gardening 101, Gardening Guides & Tips, How to Grow
Time to Renovate & Amend The Strawberry Patch Growing in Southern California can be really weird, right? Advice like “wait until your asparagus dies back completely before pruning” can sound really simple—until we realize that many things don’t die back...
by FreckledCalifornian | Nov 16, 2023 | Fruits & Vegetables, How to Grow
Fun Facts About Growing Pomegranates My first thought was to write an entire guide to growing pomegranates, but pomegranates need such little care and attention here in Southern California that this blogpost took a little different turn. True story: there’s a local...
by FreckledCalifornian | Sep 17, 2023 | Fruits & Vegetables, Gardening 101, Gardening Guides & Tips, How to Grow
Raspberry Primocanes and Floricanes You know that feeling of seeing some natural phenomenon you’ve only read about actually happening in front of your eyes? It’s pretty cool, right? Today’s post is a personal anecdote that demonstrates this very feeling, and it’s...
by FreckledCalifornian | Jun 4, 2023 | Fruits & Vegetables, Gardening 101, Gardening Guides & Tips, How to Grow
Pros & Cons of Growing a Multi-Graft Fruit tree It’s the beginning of June, and we have been harvesting enough peaches to enjoy chopped over cereal every morning for a few weeks. But guess what?! We also have some peaches that are still green and won’t ripen...