In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
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UPDATED: Thursday, December 25, 2025 04:27
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Originally posted by 1KIKI:
Hey Brenda - when I check the US drought monitor I always check the North American drought monitor as well. But unfortunately, the North American Drought Monitor is always at least a month behind.
As of about a month ago, you guys in BC were looking good - not even abnormally dry! And no part of Canada was in drought. So I was a little bit unhappy when you posted your fire season was starting up. Hopefully you get just enough rain to damp out the fires - but not so much your spirits get soggy!
I hope so too.
Don't need stressed out fire fighters as well as everything else that is going on.Man, I wish I could remember exactly how that fire started up near Squamish. I will have to look it up. News last night said it is under control so that is good.
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Sigh ... the police helicopter is going back and forth overhead, and a patrol car was going down the street broadcasting something about calling 911.
Well, at least I know no one can take the car parked back in the alley by pulling the ignition switch. It has a surprise.
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Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Well, with the ball in our lawyer's court, dd and I did some weeding.
I have to say that the torching and spraying did a good job clearing out the spaces in between the plants, but now was the time for digging and raking (The avocado trees are beginning their annual leaf-fall, and BOY do they have a lot of leaves!!)
With the dead leaves raked up, we can do more torching without necessarily starting too many fires.
KIKI, those grass-like things with the little bulblets just under the soil: I burned them brutally to the ground, twice. Watched those blades turn to ash and the soil glow. Then, when they resprouted AGAIN, I drenched them with glypohsate. (Thanks SIX for the tip on where to get that. I DO have a Roundup sprayer ... it works sweet ... but I didn't want to mix glyphosate in it because I use it for other things, but ... I needed to use it to do a lot of spraying.)
Anyway, if you can believe it, those suckers were completely unfazed by the glyphosate too! So we're going to torch them... AGAIN... and maybe kill them this time!
I'm seriously considering planting that garden that Chris Martenson is always yapping about.
Zucchini, carrots, onions, asparagus (perennial), beets, and maybe peppers and basil. I already have ginormous christmas limas that have wintered over a couple of times already. No tomatoes ... dd doesn't like them, I can't eat them and hubby doesn't want them.
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Congratulations on the legal paperwork!
YAY!!!
Either somebody had planted silver lace vine in my yard at some point, or it planted itself (kind of like the passionfruit flowering vine in my yard from the neighbors 2 doors down, or the abundance of little pepper tree sprouts from the neighbor's pepper tree at the other FAR end of the block). Those things are noxious to get rid of! And also resistant to glyphosate. They have tubers that go deep underground, and on top of that, any little bit left behind - leaf, stem, root, or tuber, can grow roots and start growing all over again. I used a hose to dig them up - dug down into the dirt with water flowing out of an open hose end to both dig and flush the dirt away to cleanly get the tubers and roots out along with of course the entire plant top. I did that for a couple of years.
It's easily been 12 years and to this day I STILL have the occasional sprout showing up. Fortunately they're small and shallow, and I can just pull them if I get them early enough. But some plants like silver lace vine, ailanthus, mimosa, and bermuda grass (which I'll try to finally get rid of this year) take extraordinary measures.
Like ailanthus trees I guess if you can't grow anything else silver lace vines'll do, but both are severe invasive species wherever they've landed on the planet.
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It did rain here last night as the roof tops around me were wet this morning. But no rain today. Chance tomorrow then passing again until Wednesday. So we shall see.
KIKI, that fire up Squamish was a slash fire. Someone trying to get rid of brush or something but apparently this last bit it has been pretty dry up there so it got out of hand.
Hopefully that will be the only early one as the fire people on the news said tonight it is not Fire Season yet here in BC.
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AH! Thanks for looking that up Brenda. Now I know it's not a natural result of the recent weather patterns up there at this point. I truly appreciate you finding the information and passing it along!
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So, I did some digging around and came up with the Canadian drought monitor, Here's the most recent map:
http://www.agr.gc.ca/atlas/maps_cartes/canadianDroughtMonitor/en/2020/
cdm_2003_en.pdf
Unfortunately, I didn't find any as a jpg or other image file that I could post directly. If you're interested in following this, the updated files are at https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/292646cd-619f-4200-afb1-8b2c52f
984a2#wb-auto-6 ... page 2 ... Pre-packaged Maps ... Dataset ... PDF ... English (also one in French)
But looking at the map ... so far, so good for Canada!
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Originally posted by 1KIKI:
AH! Thanks for looking that up Brenda. Now I know it's not a natural result of the recent weather patterns up there at this point. I truly appreciate you finding the information and passing it along!
No worries Kiki.
I didn't remember what was said on the news the other night about the fire so looking it up was no problem.
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