🌿 gardening
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Strawberry beds & sun
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March 31st was major: the first day this year without rain in the ten-day forecast. It felt … joyous. Overwhelming. Glorious. California’s been in a hard drought, and we need…
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first frost
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Last week, morning walk: mist rising off the playing fields, frost on peaked roofs. Winter here starts in December, cold mornings and rain if we’re lucky. Since then, we are…
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This month, the garden
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Last week, a headline ran in the local newspaper: storm coming! More rain than we’ve had all year! It netted out to about half an inch. It was probably the…
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January 2022 – Garden update
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A friend of mine who moved to California from the east coast and Texas said this was the first year she’d understood her Californian friends’ obsession with winter. The world…
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September garden update
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It has indeed been a while. The days here are still hot, but the angle of the light has shifted to fall. I haven’t been writing much on this blog,…
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Gardening in June
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It’s June – mid-June, at that. The weather has been strange so far this year. March was unseasonably hot, but since then it’s been cooler than usual. As I’m writing…
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