Wild Suburbia: Updated Parks and Gardens

Sunday, August 5, 2012

Just a quick note to say that the Parks and Gardens Featuring California Native Plants has been updated. The pdf in Weeding Wild Suburbia has also been updated. If I missed any park - and I know that I have - please let me know and I will try to get them on the list at the next update. Thanks!

What I'm Doing In My Garden

January: continue Dec. activities, weed, weed, weed some more.
February: plant more wildflower seed in pots, harvest lettuce and plant more, remove, make monkeyflower cuttings. Keep after garden spurge, chickweed, and other weeds.
March: seed garden with sunflowers, repot container plants, sow sunflowers in pots, rake deergrass and alkali sacaton, weed, remove some lawn.
April: remove weeds before they set seed, tend sunflower pots, attend garden tours, enjoy spring wildflowers.
May: remove annual wildflowers, harvest seed, leave some for the birds.
June: harvest first blue lake green beans; first ripe tomato (Legend); still digging out spider plant
July: deep watering of parkway garden; harvest herbs, tomatoes, strawberries, blueberries; cut back dormant needlegrass, deadhead Cleveland sage, prune wild grape from trees
August: prune young oak trees for structure, weed bermuda grass from parkway garden, control wild grape by pruning
September: remove old CA lilac, remove tomato plants, sow edible peas, prepare for long absence
October: remove spurge, cut back sage, cut dry grass flowers
November: thin Ribes speciosum thicket; weed petty spurge, purchase and plant native plants
December: harvest, eat and give away avocados; plant new perennials, sow wildflower seeds, weed out spurge and nasturtium, enjoy the garden

Sunday, August 5, 2012