Small Spaces, Little Water, Big Harvests
The heat has arrived with a vengeance. Everyone knew the freakishly mild temperatures experienced in the Sacramento Valley into the second week of July wouldn’t last and, as expected, the heat dome that has been cooking the American Southwest for weeks finally expanded to encompass California. Daytime highs for the past several days have been…
An uncharacteristically cool May has faded into a suspiciously pleasant June here in the Sacramento Valley. While we have had a handful days with high temperatures in 90s, the weather has mostly been sunshine and temps in the 70s and 80s. These unusual conditions have been perfect for the garden and with few exceptions, all…
A particularly cool and wet winter in the Sacramento Valley gave way to an unusually cool and wet early spring which delayed the transfer of our plants from their starter pots into our raised beds. We were finally able to get everything planted over Easter weekend. A month later, almost everything is thriving and nothing…
Welcome to my backyard gardening project. Or at least a journal of all the trials, errors, successes, and failures associated with said project. I hope anyone who stumbles across this page will find the accounts of my experiences educational or at least entertaining. If nothing else, this site will be a good reference for me…