I’ve been away for a while and would like to get reacquainted with folks in my locale. Feel free to chime in and talk about where you are and what ever is on your mind.
I’m in Lake Balboa which is roughly where the 405 and 101 freeway come together. It’s been a great year here for rain so far, and has stayed pretty cool as well.
It is definitely good to finally have a real rainy season… hose water just doesn’t do it. The fruit trees are showing their relief by flowering and fruiting profusely.
Sadly, the parks here in So Cal are going feral and deteriorating. I’ve been hearing horror stories. It’s the flipside for me, I live in the valley and work downtown. Funny, I sent a daughter to school at USC, and I have a shirt and hat to show for it.
Yes it gets pretty dry down here. We get less precipitation each year than LA (which isn’t saying that you get a lot, but a lot of the rain seems to pass to the north or south of us), but our average temperatures are a little bit less I believe. I’m about 8 miles inland on the western slope of a coastal mountain, so I do get a lot of the coastal fogs.
Hello, another PQ resident from San Diego. The weather has been good enough to keep my water tanks filled. But, my recently planted long beans are not liking the cooler weather, should have waited til June to plant. I was just up in Riverside at Louie’s Nursery looking at their roses but ended up with two Sunshine blue blueberries. Are there any other unique nurseries up in LA or Orange county that are worth the trip up there?
Merry
Merry,
Welcome! It’s always great to have another PQ member! You should introduce yourself in the Intro thread, let everyone know what your interests are:
Hey @Lids, what’s crackin’? Good to see/hear from you again!
Yeah, I’ll be curing up some olives again this year. Can’t wait. When I start to see the 'Arbequina` get some purple tips, I start harvesting about a 1/2 gallon at a time. It doesn’t have to be precise and it’s good to get green and multi-colored olives all together. ‘Arbosana’ comes a couple of weeks later and the same general rules apply. I don’t slice the fruits any more before curing, just start the water cure with whole olives. Works great with these little guys.