Recent notes

• 13 Oct
  

  Front Yard, Grass Improvement

  Last night It rained, thundered, and the sky lite up with lightening! This is so unusual in Southern California. I wonder if we are still in a drought. Perhaps our lawn will be greener before January or February. I was thinking we had to take out the whole lawn area and replace it with red bark ...
• 26 Sep
  

  Tomatoes in Autumn

  Although our summer tomatoes are gone, this bush seems to have one last harvest! The tomatoes are green thus far, but I hope they ripen. I last counted 25 of them.
• 20 Sep
  

  Grape Harvest Coming to an End

  We were so very happy with our grapes this year! They were sweet and tender, with a melt in your mouth skin. We will have to get used to store bought grapes again, until we try planting and harvesting grapes again.
• 15 Sep
  

  Greener Lawn Days

  Red Dog is sitting on our green lawn. We are trying to get this lawn back to greener days after these few years of water rationing and drought in many Southern California cities.
• 4 Aug

  Broccoli

  Plant broccoli 
• 30 Jul
  

  Grapes in July

  These grapes have been ready since mid July. We have been blessed this year with a great crop.
• 7 Jun
  

  Grape Ladder Make-Shift Trellis

  Here is the ladder my husband put in as a make-shift trellis to allow the grapes to have a wider span. (Also to not interude on the neighbor's fence.) Thus far, this seems to be working. 
• 3 Jun

  Just starting

  I know next to nothing about plants.  I never really had much of an interest, the garden was always my Dad's domain, but recently I've been diagnosed with a mobility disorder.  Certain tasks are very difficult and there is no cure- the only thing that might help is certain "low impact" exercises. ...