by Greg Alder | Nov 3, 2023 | Citrus |
I never stop asking myself, “Am I watering enough? Am I watering too much?” Right now I’m replacing some drip line under my citrus trees so I’m specifically wondering if I should add emitters. Using drip emitters makes it easy to calculate how...
by Greg Alder | Sep 8, 2023 | Misc |
The off-season rain of Hurricane Hilary on August 20 gave a rare opportunity for both warm-season and cool-season weeds to germinate at the same time. I thought I would take advantage by photographing the young seedlings as they came up. I chose to post here only the...
by Greg Alder | Jul 14, 2023 | Watering |
I love the efficiency of drip irrigation, but its inflexibility can be frustrating. Learning to kink my drip irrigation tubes in various ways has, however, relieved some of this frustration and added versatility into my system. Let me explain and illustrate with two...
by Greg Alder | Jul 1, 2023 | Misc |
A decade ago, at the end of June 2013, my pregnant wife and I began moving into our house. We bought this place in Ramona using every penny we had. It seemed to offer almost everything we wanted: plenty of indoor space for us to fill with a family; and an acre of...
by Greg Alder | Jun 3, 2023 | Weather |
My grandma is sick of the gloom. She’s ready to go somewhere to find the sun. She has lived her entire life in the Los Angeles area, and she wondered aloud the other day, “Can you remember a year that was this gloomy for so long?” “Funny you...
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