Growing zucchini in Southern California

Growing zucchini in Southern California

My job is to grow food for my family. Some crops I grow because we all love to eat them (Cara Cara oranges, for example), some crops I grow because just one of us is a big fan. My wife needs her zucchini so I’ve learned to sow, plant, water, and harvest them....
Reed avocado high-density grove

Reed avocado high-density grove

In 2018, I first visited this grove of Reed avocados. The trees had been planted ten feet apart. In avocado-world parlance, they call that “high density” planting. Traditional tree spacing is more like twenty feet apart. But then the farmer further added a...
Protecting fruit from birds

Protecting fruit from birds

My goal is to see birds as garden teammates — as they eat insects that can be pests, such as aphids — and not as enemies as they peck the fruit on my trees. As far as my experience goes, the best way to accomplish this is to prevent birds from access to...
Remembering winter (in summer)

Remembering winter (in summer)

It is the height of the heat of summer now, but this week I was browsing back through photos until I arrived at last winter. The yard was green. There was frost. Plants were wet with rain. What a different world – in the same place, just in the opposite season. Early...

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