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@EricFielding if the lines were deenergized, I wonder how I had power in my area until after the fire started? I checked my pics and one had the streetlight on. @ai6yr

10,600 acres in ~14 hours since start

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Ash fall this morning while assessing damage & starting clean up

We are in the valley (just below evac areas) where it started

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5/N

And now switching over to the new native plants. All were from local nurseries and in 1 gallon pots.

Tagetes lemmonii

I will never tire of these cheery marigolds

4/N

Bed 4:
About 3' x 13'

3 total rows planted in blocks of seeds I harvested this year: Rudbeckia hirta, Rudbeckia triloba, Phacelia tanacetifolia, Achillea millefolium, and Amsinkia sp.

I ran out of shade cloth, so picture shows my experiment to help keep the Towhees off the bed. I took long lengths of the Romneya and criss crossed them like pick-up sticks across the furrows. It's working so far :)

3/N

Bed 3:
About 3' x 15'

3 total rows. Half the bed is Liatris from local nursery seed sale. Other half is cornflower, Centaurea, from my own seed harvested this spring.

Pic shows the end of the row. I didn't have enough length of shade cloth to protect from birds. So, I'm relying on some of my chipped Romneya to help discourage the resident Towhee family from rototilling the bed for me.

2/N

Bed 2:
About 3' x 7'

Direct seeded with one row each of parsnips, chard, and beets from local nursery end of season sale.

Also one row of Phacelia seeds from my own harvest, like bed 1.

Pic is of the side of the bed. This spring I had a massive amount of cornflowers, so I used them as a kind of wattle fence along the sides of the bed.

9/N

Eriogonum fasciculatum, California buckwheat. This buckwheat makes up so much of my local chaparral creating waves of greens to whites to rust as the season goes by

8/N:

Eriogonum arborescens, Santa Cruz Island buckwheat, is pushing out new leaves and a developing flowerhead

7/N:

Encelia californica. It is also pushing out new leaves. Looking forward to the many sunflower like flowers to come.

6/N

Solidago californica. It's starting to show new growth in its rosette.

11/end

Eriogonum cinereum, Ashy Leaved Buckwheat. This plant was blooming in the pot and has not stopped! The flowers are tiny and gorgeous--showing off the tiniest of dew drops

10/N

Eriogonum giganteum, St. Catherine's Lace buckwheat. This one will have dinner plate sized blooms. Cannot wait.

1/N

Direct seeded a total of four beds, so about 135 sq ft. Mix of flowering plants & veg. For luck, all the beds have a sprinkle of California poppy, Eschscholzia californica.

Bed 1:
About 3' x 10'

Half of bed is established native yarrow, Achillea millefolium, grown from seed from Theodore Payne foundation

Other half of bed is Phacelia tanacetifolia from my own grown seed this year

Pic is of the rough chop of Romneya I use to help keep shade cloth row cover tucked in from birds.

Offering up a smallish thread on 2024 cool season planting in urban #zone10

First, the season has been rough in terms of hotter than normal days and nights, as well as bad air quality.

This season's focus is to expand being a neighborhood insectary and to generate more native plant seeds.

Because of the challenges with the weather, the pics are quick. I hope they're useful.

2024 planting is resistance for 2025 hope.

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I've been to the desert...🎶

From Spring 2022 in Antelope Valley, CA

The California poppy & desert dandelions

Eschscholzia californica & Malacothrix

#nativePlants #desert

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