Former native plant garden hotline lady at Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden, I continue to garden with natives, give talks, do garden consults, and write. Each month I work with other volunteers in the So Pas Nature Park weeding and cleaning up. Get in touch with your home - grow native.
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
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