For students who have attended our Designing the Perfect Vegetable Garden workshop, you may Download Designing the Perfect Vegetable Garden presentation as a pdf file.
Note: You may need to first install Adobe Reader on your computer. The other reason the file may not load is due to lack of storage on your computer. You may also need to temporarily disable your antivirus software.
And in case you missed the links, here they are:
My favorite source for gabion baskets, gravel, straw wattles, cinder blocks, stepping stones, and masonry rock: Central Home Supply in Santa Cruz and Scotts Valley (mention us and they will give you an extra deal). I do not recommend their top soil blend, however, until I am confident that they have fixed their sourcing issue.
Mulch supplier: Vision Recycling (tell them we sent you and they will give you an extra good deal)
Landscape staples
Landscape fabric: Costco
Bagged top soils: Gardner & Bloome or purchase at our on-the-farm shop or at our seasonal tomato plant sale each spring at Ivy's Porch in Scotts Valley (5311 Scotts Valley Drive).
Custom Top Soil Blend in quantities of at least 30 yards: Sun Land
Local private miller: Michael Saunders runningwiththebeagle@gmail.com (tell him Cynthia at Love Apple Farms gave you his email address).
Building raised beds on a slope
Design plans and inspiration for raised bed gardens
GeoPlanter fabric beds and pots.
Black Walnut toxicity: http://ohioline.osu.edu/hyg-fact/1000/1148.html
Sun path chart program (complicated stuff, you'll need to do your homework on this to understand it).
On-line calculator for landscape materials
Good lumberyard in San Jose area: Southern Lumber
Local gopher trapper and teacher: Gophers Limited
Interesting website on how to construct gardens with railroad ties (aka "sleepers" in England). Note that not all RR ties are embedded with creosote. Some places make them without all of that, or go with 75+ year old ties.
Timberleaf Soil Testing (on line lab)
Thoughtful article on using pressure-treated lumber in vegetable beds.
Stainless steel hardware cloth source for gopher control under garden beds.
Mulch supplier: Vision Recycling (tell them we sent you and they will give you an extra good deal)
Landscape staples
Landscape fabric: Costco
Bagged top soils: Gardner & Bloome or purchase at our on-the-farm shop or at our seasonal tomato plant sale each spring at Ivy's Porch in Scotts Valley (5311 Scotts Valley Drive).
Custom Top Soil Blend in quantities of at least 30 yards: Sun Land
Local private miller: Michael Saunders runningwiththebeagle@gmail.com (tell him Cynthia at Love Apple Farms gave you his email address).
Building raised beds on a slope
Design plans and inspiration for raised bed gardens
GeoPlanter fabric beds and pots.
Black Walnut toxicity: http://ohioline.osu.edu/hyg-fact/1000/1148.html
Sun path chart program (complicated stuff, you'll need to do your homework on this to understand it).
On-line calculator for landscape materials
Good lumberyard in San Jose area: Southern Lumber
Local gopher trapper and teacher: Gophers Limited
Interesting website on how to construct gardens with railroad ties (aka "sleepers" in England). Note that not all RR ties are embedded with creosote. Some places make them without all of that, or go with 75+ year old ties.
Timberleaf Soil Testing (on line lab)
Thoughtful article on using pressure-treated lumber in vegetable beds.
Stainless steel hardware cloth source for gopher control under garden beds.
Contact info for Phillip Gatchell, who builds custom beds for gardens, installs vegetable gardens, and maintains them:www.Loamstead.com and his email is phillip.gatch@gmail.com
Harbor Freight greenhouse.
On-line community discussing how to retrofit Harbor Freight Greenhouses (aka HFGH).
Consider these classes as you go forward with your gardening projects: Growing Tomato Transplants from Seed, Simple Drip Irrigation, Tomato Masters, Chicken-Keeping, Summer Vegetable Gardening.
Harbor Freight greenhouse.
On-line community discussing how to retrofit Harbor Freight Greenhouses (aka HFGH).
Consider these classes as you go forward with your gardening projects: Growing Tomato Transplants from Seed, Simple Drip Irrigation, Tomato Masters, Chicken-Keeping, Summer Vegetable Gardening.
I am a Master Gardener from Texas, just in California visiting our daughter and her husband; I really enjoyed your class, and yes I did learn things that wifi be used in my garden here on our cotton farm. Thanks again. Will try to schedule our next visit to coincide with another class of yours. Jean
Posted by: Jean McAskill | February 22, 2017 at 05:56 PM
Loved your class on Designing the Perfect Vegetable Garden. I remembered a smattering of this information in some of the longer classes (ie, Summer Vegetable Gardening)which I attended at the BL LAF site, but this gave much more detail and was very helpful!! Can't wait to put some of these suggestions into practice!
Posted by: Carol Hill | February 24, 2014 at 06:13 PM