Zone 10 – Gardening lesson for beginner

Hello Gardeners,

I started gardening in 2015 and now I have one year experience with gardening in Zone 10 – San Diego. Following are some quick notes which might help someone like me.

• Find you gardening Zone
• Understand Gardening Soil
• Learn growing from seed, try home-made seed growing kit with newspaper pots. Absolute zero investment in this seed kit.

Low maintenance and abundant flowering plant. Every beginner must try with this.

• Hibiscus
• Marigold
• Sunflower
• Euryops/ Yellow daisy like flower is a low maintenance native plant with abundant flowering.

You are tempted to grow Rose as beginner. Have a strong heart, growing beautiful rose with healthy foliage need years of experience. so, it’s a journey

• As a beginner, it’s good you start in pot
• Rose needs lots of water  in summer
• Use Rose soil
• Use Rose fertilizer.
• If you think , Rose will grow in soil and fertilizer common for other plants that ain’t happening !

Tip – You can use banana peel for organic supply of potassium(K)

Trying Seeds / Regrow Root

• Re-grow celery from root. I am enjoy fresh celery stalk in juice!
• Growing zucchini from seed

Pest Prevention

• Use egg shells for slugs
• Use Neem oils to keep your flowering plant away from spider mites and aphids

Other

• Do not plant delphinium outdoor in summer. San Diego summer is not good for delphinium
• Follow waterwise gardening rules
• Must get Acquainted with Gardening Jargon

Hope you find them useful. This year I will try for a beautiful kitchen garden and follow what I have learned from my own experience.

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Happy Gardening!