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YAY FOR RAIN AND RAIN AND RAIN AND RAIN

1/15/2019

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First camellia
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Beautiful orange rose
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Beginning of the nerines. I have them planted in 17 tiers along a ramp, each with different light exposure, so each blooms at a different time for months of enjoyment.
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My nasturtium "ocean" from seeds sown a decade ago.
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There's always some of this self-sowing amaranth germinating, growing, or blooming year 'round. A great "weed" to enjoy in your garden -- and the leaves are edible and nutritious.
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Some forgotten potatoes popped up when I sowed the cilantro.
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Black peppers thriving in the cold.
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Celery among the lettuce, crisp and flavorful all winter long. Just keep pulling (not cutting) the outer stalks, leaving the inner ones to continue growing. Just like harvesting the outer leaves of lettuce to let the inner ones continue growing.
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Another weird-weather novelty -- figs continuing to ripen. We'll see how long it takes, and what it tastes like, since it won't benefit from summer heat for sweetness.
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Beautiful blooming upright rosemary makes a great gift for culinary friends.
​     Rain, glorious rain (with apologies to everyone affected by the Woolsey Fire and suffering from mudslides).  I’m ecstatic about our several rain storms with their mostly gently falling drops spaced out with minimal misting and even some sun.  This mode enables the rain to be absorbed by the soil by bits at a time with “breathers” in between. 
     If you’ve had runoff, you’ll need to pile on more mulch to break the fall of the drops and enable more of that slow absorption for future rains. 
     Either way, let the soil in the garden beds drain over several days after the last rain storm before walking or digging.  Handling soggy soil will push out the air pockets, compacting it and resisting future water absorption. 
     Even walking in pathways will also squish out the air spaces, compacting it as well.  Even though you’re not growing anything (perhaps some weeds) in the pathways, the area serves as a reservoir for moisture and nutrients that plants in raised beds can access.  So compacting the pathways makes it harder for plant roots to connect with.
     A great thing about all this rain is that it’ll protect plants from potential frosts, since the root zones are thoroughly moist.  Even if air temperatures sink into the low 30s on clear, windless nights, plants should resist damage.  Our average last frost date is January 31.
 
See “Monthly Tips” for January tasks.
 
1 Comment
monica nardiello link
1/28/2019 06:59:49 am

Very interesting! Thanks for the share

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