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Pompano
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Post your useful plant tips here:
Pompano Baja Home Garden Rule:
When weeding, the best way to make sure you are removing a weed and not a valuable plant is to pull on it.
If it comes out of the ground easily, it is a valuable plant. 
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"Error is a hardy plant: It florisheth in every soil."
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[Edited on 3-7-2009 by Pompano]
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ckiefer
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My grandfather always told me "kiki, if you didn't plant it, it's a weed" He was a farmer 
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dianaji
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The best soil in the world is from worm compost. and the best way to grow worms is to raise a rabbit or 2 and put the cage over your worm bin.
also, if u can find a starbucks they will give u free coffee grains and worms love that! do they have starbucks in baja? if u can find some seaweed
and put that in your compost, the plants love it. wash it off first.
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ckiefer
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I love used coffee grains from starbucks to spread around the gardenia's back home. Thanks for reminding me.
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Living next to the river in Mulege we get lots of salt intrusion. I had Googled that problem and read lots of info about salt problems in areas of
the world where they have tidal waves and hurricanes which put so much salt into the soil that the people cannot grow staples, like rice. The answer
is to keep turning the soil over, and adding gypsum. This year we brought down lots of gypsum pellets to fold into the soil. We also had our yard
helper bring us "clean" soil and cow poo. Added the gypsum, too. Still, we have had a really hard time getting anything to germinate. Only about
ten percent of what we planted has come up. Mostly lettuces and tomatoes. A friend down the river road said she just now has some veggies coming up
that she planted last October. Strange. Those of us who frequent El Candil...Scotty's place in town...know that most of his veggies come from his
dad's efforts. His dad told us that he, too, has had difficulty getting seeds to germinate this year. Thank God we don't have to grow cerveza!
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dianaji
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at one time i owned a nursery and had this sign:
God never made a house plant!
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DENNIS
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Never get caught at a military checkpoint with the wrong kind of house plant.
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NoShoesRequired
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Guillermo tells us to place one good-sized dead fish in the hole you plant any palm. I believe him:
http://www.hotel-jardinesbaja.com/id76.html
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For you all who live in a sandy desert and need to supplement your soil, start making a compost pile with your kitchen refuse. Add to that found cow
patties, tree clippings, etc. and soon you'll have some compost. Shouldn't use too much gypsum - it loosens a clay soil, but too much and you'll end
up with cement. Seaweed might be good for the compost pile, but may have too much salt for direct intrusion. Native Americans put fish with a corn
kernal to get them germinated - great fertilizer and would add a little heat during decomposition when the seed is germinating. Don't forget to mulch
to keep soil from drying out-will cut down on water needs generally.
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dianaji
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corn gluten is a natural remedy for weeds and fertilized the soil. google it!
only use organic fertilizer for edible plants...NOT miracle gro.
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Barry A.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by dianaji
only use organic fertilizer for edible plants...NOT miracle gro. |
Why??? what's wrong with 'miracle grow'?
Barry
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dianaji
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plants grow very well in it, however, it is best to use it for ornamentals. believe me. one day i bought the most BEAUTIFUL strawberries and they
tasted like cardboard. the same week, i bought some grown organically and not as beautiful, but WAY more delicious...same thing with cucumbers...such
a difference with growing organically.
i do have a concern about not fining food grown organically in baja...or if anyone knows where i can buy them...PLEASE let me know. same things with
eggs. i get cage free eggs here in the states where the chickens eat the worms, and the eggs taste sooo much better.
that's my story and i'm sticking to it. a city girl with a farmer's heart!
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Mexitron
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Farmers in the San Joaquin Valley have been using tile drains to carry off irrigation water after it has leached out excess salts--maybe you could put
something like that in. That and lots of compost--after having used homegrown compost on our vegie garden it has turned mucky clay into beautiful
soil.
Some seeds are cold or daylength sensitive too--I put in some leeks in November last year (because once they are growing are incredibly tolerant of
the arctic blasts that come through Fort Worth) but they didn't sprout until the soil warmed up in late February.
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Paula
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| Quote: | Originally posted by NoShoesRequired
Guillermo tells us to place one good-sized dead fish in the hole you plant any palm. |
hmmmmmm.....
I wonder what will happen if we place a good sized dead palm in the hole we plan to fish tomorrow
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Mexitron
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Here's a rather technical link to the salt situation and drainage remedies:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salinity_control
There's lots more on google to check out I'm sure....
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Paula
| Quote: | Originally posted by NoShoesRequired
Guillermo tells us to place one good-sized dead fish in the hole you plant any palm. |
hmmmmmm.....
I wonder what will happen if we place a good sized dead palm in the hole we plan to fish tomorrow |
 Good one, Paula!
Pompano, have you tried this? (don't forget the corn)
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Pompano
Pompano Baja Home Garden Rule:
When weeding, the best way to make sure you are removing a weed and not a valuable plant is to pull on it.
If it comes out of the ground easily, it is a valuable plant. |
One early spring day my mom was nagging my dad to help weed the flower borders around the yard. He finally grumped his way outside and didn't come
back in for a couple of hours. When Mom went out to check his work she discovered he had pulled up everything except the roses. "How am I supposed to
know the difference between flowers and weeds?" he protested (a false argument since he grew up on a farm).
Of course she didn't buy that argument, but she also never nagged him about helping out any more. I don't think she ever quite forgave him.
\"You know Hobbes, sometimes even my lucky rocket-ship underpants don\'t help.\" - Calvin, from Calvin and Hobbes
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For perfectly ripe strawberries:
1. Watch for flowers to turn to small berries;
2. Watch berries grow larger;
3. Watch as berries turn from green to reddish;
4. Pay more careful attention and watch them get redder;
5. Note that there will be only one more day before the berry is perfect;
6. Go out to pick perfect berry;
7. See that the bird that was also watching got it first;
8. Go back to number 1.
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Pompano
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| Quote: | Originally posted by toneart
| Quote: | Originally posted by Paula
| Quote: | Originally posted by NoShoesRequired
Guillermo tells us to place one good-sized dead fish in the hole you plant any palm. |
hmmmmmm.....
I wonder what will happen if we place a good sized dead palm in the hole we plan to fish tomorrow |
Good one, Paula!
Pompano, have you tried this? (don't forget the corn) |
Tony, I have actually tried a version of this. Xmas trees, old wood structures, biomass, etc, etc Up North to create a 'reef' for walleyes, smallmouth
bass, pike, and crappies. We would haul them out on the ice and when spring melt came..viola. Instant habitat. Wonderful fishing.
We wanted to do it here, too. Limpet mines and trawlers..get the idear?
For those who are wondering.. 'crappies' is pronounce 'croppies'...just in case you were grossed out. 
I do what the voices in my tackle box tell me.
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Marie-Rose
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Never let your Mexican "gardener" trim your bouganvillias with his machete!!!!
We have been cleaning out the dead wood from several years of "trimming" 
Remember, when in Mexico, yes may be no and no may be
maybe!
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