Recent content by Latitude33

Mostly maintenance this weekend. Harvested beets, zucchini, yellow squash, Persian cucumbers, kale, and chard. Planted another row of corn,as well as grape and Early Girl tomatoes. Also planted white sweet potato and harvested papaya. Dang I'm tired.

Due North of you in Lakewood. Currently have two Red Sex Link hens and two mixed White Leghorn/Rhode Island Red pullets...thinking of adding two more...chicken math.

Not much today but yesterday I pulled out the snow peas, harvested more cabbage, chard, kale, and arugula. Planted seeds for pole beans and zucchini. Last average frost day was last week. Rained a couple days off and on. Expected more but the systems thankfully stayed north and dumped on...

Checked on potential wind damage at the community gardens. Had a brief spat of rain today. Yesterday I harvested broccoli, cauliflower and snap peas. Have kale and schard to harvest soon.

Lakewood CA is where I grew up, so many years ago. It was one of the first, post world war II, master planned communities. Previously farmland, it was converted to suburbia in rapid fashion. As a kid, the city was still surrounded by agriculture with mostly Dutch dairy farms. The city enacted...

Truly envy y'all with seasons. Today was a typical So Cal "winter" day. 60 degrees, scattered clouds but mostly sunny...no breaks in the seasons. Planted the last of my onion order, thinned my beets, planted seeds for cilantro and dill. Was gifted with arugula starts so planted those as...

Almost feel guilty posting this, yesterday was registration day for our local community gardens so I worked doing signups. later i was able to plant a few rows of onions, along some arugula transplants from another gardener, and lemon grass. Today I finally got the Christmas lights off the...

Hey Cap, Do you have a stencil for raccoons? Family has a property on Koon Holler Road. Uncle Lat

Today I added to and turned the compost, Prepped a a row and planted spinach transplants and broadcast seed, planted a couple potatoes and more snap peas... (All we are saying, is give peas a chance!:love). Harvested kale (about a bushel), a dozen peppers, an equal number of cheery tomatoes...

Currently I have rosemary, Greek and Italian oregano, cilantro (personal fav), Genovese basil, marjoram, lemon grass, bay laurel, English thyme, chives, mint and sage. For next season I am looking to add savory, lemon verbena, Thai basil and Mexican oregano

Late to the conversation...Be true to yourself. I happen to live in the most "Look at me" location in the country. Don't care a wit about conforming to other's expectations. Express yourself and be proud, be comfortable in your own skin..

Aloha!:cool:

What is this "Winter" you speak of? Your ways are very strange to me...:D

Right On. What styles/genre of music?

Update: Broke down and went to the local nursery to purchase compost as well as snow and snap peas. New gardener may need some guidance, wanted to plant tomatoes and peppers today without first conditioning the soil. Will keep a weather eye on him.