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A Southern California garden in November
I love it that we can garden all year long here in coastal southern California. My summer vegetables may be nearing their end, but the fall vegetables are entering their prime. Black Beauty eggplants...
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Harvest Monday Jan. 25, 2010
Once again, I’m behind with my Monday harvest report. I’m going to blame it on the rain. Yep, it’s raining again today. Just harvested some lettuce in the rain. Lettuce sure loves this weather. Here’s...
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My pond and veggie garden in southern California, January 2010
One of my New Year’s Resolutions is to keep a good photographic record of my vegetable garden, fruit-growing and yard this year. My plan is to photograph my yard around mid-month so I can keep better...
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Start of a new year
Our new neighbors to the south removed the HUGE cypress trees whose roots had cracked our sidewalk. This is our new sidewalk. New fence to come later. New year, same old bad habits. I’ve been too busy...
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November 2013 in the garden
VBS, I have become absolutely horrible about blogging. Its seems that photography and genealogy have trumped gardening and writing as hobbies these days. Perhaps the sad state of my garden has...
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January 2014–heat and drought are wilting my southern California garden
Southern California is in a record-breaking heat wave and is experiencing horrible drought with precipitation at 20% of normal. This is our rainy season, but it isn’t raining. I don’t think it has...
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Harvest Monday, April 14, 2014
Spring has most definitely sprung in my southern California garden. Everything is green, growing, lush, and colorful now. Just give it a few months. Our gardens wilt in the summer heat. We will get no...
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Harvest Monday (on Wednesday, April 21, 2014
A belated HappyEarth Day to you all!I was busy fighting a computer issue all day yesterday. Don’t ask me what happened to Monday, because I don’t remember. i suspect more computer issues then too. And...
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Maybe we won’t starve after all–July 21, 2015
There is hope for my summer garden. I finally found the energy to plant veggie bed #3. And just in the nick of time for it to enjoy a surprise rainfall. I say surprise because coastal southern...
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