I woke up at 4:00 am this morning thinking about the last two fruit trees that I need to get pruned. One is a flowering plum and the buds are beginning to swell. The Santa Rosa plum is the other. I'd like to get more plums from this to make plum jam.
Yesterday we went to a parking lot sale at the Cambria Pine Nursery. Needless to say, my husband, the chief hole digger, has his work cut out for him this week.
As far as zucchini, in this little coastal town of California, the leaves of our zucchini gets powdery mildew each summer because of the warm, moist, climate. I just remove the leaves when they start dying down. Interestingly, the plant still produces and I always have "more than enough" of the vegetable to eat grilled, pickled, or steamed.
Yesterday we went to a parking lot sale at the Cambria Pine Nursery. Needless to say, my husband, the chief hole digger, has his work cut out for him this week.
As far as zucchini, in this little coastal town of California, the leaves of our zucchini gets powdery mildew each summer because of the warm, moist, climate. I just remove the leaves when they start dying down. Interestingly, the plant still produces and I always have "more than enough" of the vegetable to eat grilled, pickled, or steamed.
Both have their advantages...winter here can be hard on the skin and fingernails and we have to use humidifiers. But on the other hand, it's easier on the puffiness and arthritis. When I first moved here I had issues with nosebleeds quite frequently, but that finally passed. For me the few negatives are far outweighed by the positives. When I go back east to visit, my hands and feet and eyes swell up and sometimes I feel like I'm trying to breathe under water. 
