by Greg Alder | May 5, 2017 | May, Months |
(Last updated: May 2021) May can be spring, or May can be summer. Last year (2016) it was spring, with cloudy and showery weather, but this year so far it feels more like summer with dry breezes and lots of sun and not much May Gray yet — yet! The forecast is...
by Greg Alder | Dec 20, 2016 | Fruit, Pests |
I love avocado trees, and I sure love my son Miles, but toward the end of the summer his placenta tree started to lose leaves and then lose more leaves and then have some die back on branch tips, so I got emotional in a way I never have toward a tree. I’ve...
by Greg Alder | Dec 13, 2016
Resources The books, documents, videos, charts, handbooks, websites, forums, etc. -- that I find myself referring to over and over again when I have questions about food gardening in Southern California. ? Vegetables Which vegetables to plant when: “Vegetable...
by Greg Alder | Jun 17, 2016 | Chickens, Pests |
Joel Salatin advises that you wake up every morning aiming to attack the weak link on your farm. That could be soil fertility, irrigation, labor efficiency, anything. The weak link in our yard has been — for a couple years now — a proliferation of earwigs...
by Greg Alder | Dec 27, 2015 | Misc |
The front half of our yard — since it’s a yard of an acre, I can say the front half-acre — was stripped of its native vegetation when we moved in. That has always irritated me, particularly because next to nothing replaced it. There was a single...
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