In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
POSTED BY: SIGNYM
UPDATED: Thursday, December 25, 2025 04:27
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Garden planted, avocado trees hosed down. don't see any mite damage on the leaves (yet) but SOMEthing is munching big holes in them! That's a first! Avocado leaves are thick and tough and usually nothing manages to eat them!
I feel like I've been playing "Beat The Clock" with this garden.The decision to start a garden was late in the season, and May is a late planting. But I got almost all of the plants in the ground, just another six-pack and some strawberries and a melon to go. So .... whew! The big push is done,
Those strawberries ... I have no idea how well they produce or what the berries taste like, but unlike regular strawberries with white flowers, these were rosy pink and just too pretty to pass up!
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Beautiful day here, too! The weather FINALLY cooled down, it started out cloudy and cool but wound up a breezy, sunny, 77F.
Enjoy your day!
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My day was okay Sig. Just a quiet Sunday.
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Out for my walk in a bit.
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Quote:Have a good one!
Originally posted by Brenda:
Out for my walk in a bit.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:Have a good one!
Originally posted by Brenda:
Out for my walk in a bit.
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My walk was good yesterday but very muggy. When I got back I got my sheets changed and some glasses washed that I had bought a while back. They are now in a cupboard.
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The rain arrived at around 11:30 last night, so everything is still wet out when I went out for my walk today. But at least the mugginess is gone.
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Quote:I hope your sunshine comes back soon!
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The rain arrived at around 11:30 last night, so everything is still wet out when I went out for my walk today. But at least the mugginess is gone.
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Well, thanks to the cooler weather none of my plantings suffered transplant shock. yay!
And I FINALLY got that very last caterpillar off my basil, and also off my coffee seedlings. YAY!
I got MOST of the avocado leaves raked up... another three 65-gallon bins-worth this week, and just as much last week. Since all of my greenwaste bins are full, I have to start using some spare 33-gallon bins for the (continued) cleanup.
Spring is a huge cleanup season. Our avocados are dumping their leaves, weeds and plants are growing. NOTE TO SELF: Xfer pruning, thinning, and trimming to late autumn and winter, when most plants are dormant.
Every morning, at least an hour of yardwork. I hope that's enough to keep up!
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I've been looking at when to prune natives, or if one should prune them. Generally - and this is true of non-natives as well - one should prune a few weeks before they break dormancy. That way, active growing will heal over the pruning wounds.
There are 2 times when natives break dormancy here. One is during the later fall rains when the air and ground are still somewhat warm. So pruning might be at the end of September or early October. But as winter progresses, even while rains are (typically) plentiful, the air and ground get colder and growth stops. The next time natives break dormancy is in spring, when the ground is still moist, and the temperatures rise again. So that would mean pruning in the middle of winter. That's not a great time for the human gardener to be out doing work when it's wet and cold!
There are some things that supposedly should never be pruned, and the hollyleaf cherry and its subspecies the Catalina Island cherry are 2 of them. But I'd like to prune my cherry hedge at some point because it got damaged from (I believe) something the neighbor put on the soil. Fortunately, I have a tree elsewhere that I want to remove. It hit a good source of water and is going to be a genuine large tree instead of the far more typical shrub. So I'll cut it off about a foot above ground level and see if it tries to come back, and how that growth will sprout. If it comes back strong, as a shrub, I'll know the other trees will be able to tolerate the more modest pruning I hope to do.
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