What’s going on in your garden (2026)?

Z-Cook said:
Nobody ever hear of composting ? 🙄🙄🙄
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I compost...
But I have better success by just letting the grass rot in situ.
Less work as well.

I have a small, very small, area that tends to get washed away in the rain.
I throw all food waste (raw veg/fruit only) in and near it. Whatever starts growing can stay. It seems to have worked in holding the soil and I got a nice tomatillo growing there + ginger.
 
Z-Cook said:
Nobody ever hear of composting ? 🙄🙄🙄
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Doesn't work well in hot, dry environments sadly. Mine gets nowhere near hot enough to kill the seeds. So I quit with composting becausei needed to water it. I don't have the water spare to water it, and I have moved over to bokashi instead, for all organic waste from the kitchen (which is a lot in a vegan household, simply because we eat a lot more veg).

Even in the UK, though, I used to struggle to get compost got enough to kill seeds but it did at least compose. Here, it just desiccates and provides a habitat for venomous snakes. Not a great idea.

Bokashi, on the other hand, works anaerobically, produces a liquid fertiliser and then gets buried in the ground and in about 6 months has gone and i have a wonderful patch of thick and very healthy worms.
 
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So I've had some more raspberries. One raspberry type is finished now, the other needs to ripen before 7 days of 38°C see it die back and have a dormant period. Plenty of fruit needs to grow, so I've just given the garden a big water, long soak, even though we're due rain. That way the rain will get absorbed instead of running away in fright.

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The apricot tree has been giving us a few apricots, but the birds are starting to find them, so I'm now having to pick anything that attracts their attention, and ripen it in the house.

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They are huge this year though, the size of an apple, but they have such a good flavour that I don't mind. They are totally different from the supermarket ones, so totally different i can't wrap my head around it. So brekkie tomorrow will include 2 ripe ones that birds have started to attack.

And the mushrooms have started again. Same box as before Christmas. They'll harvest in the next day or two, before the heat arrives too badly.
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SoCalZone10 said:
Its pretty pest free too. I have about 10 jujube trees in container, but I’m too afraid to plant them in the ground.
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They grow easily and propagate easily so yes, it can be a pest.
I just pull out the young plants if they grow where I don't want them

Edit: they just grow from their seed and very easily, so propagate is not really the right word
 
I was getting depressed with this weather so my daughter said go out and do something because the rain is not coming until a few hours later. I’m glad I did listen to her, I went outside, and chop, chop, the right wall is now almost empty again.
I found my 2 herbaceous peonies I planted last year, maybe I get to see some flowers this year.
Tomorrow, I will dump the cuttings, right now they are on the ground.
 
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