California Gardening: Wintrer in California, 1 by SingingWolf

SingingWolf wrote:
imapigeon,
My husband doesn't eat pork, although the thought did occur to me. He is also an easy going person, and since our son had to mend the drip line, it didn't bother him much, and gave our son experience. However, these are miniature pot belly pigs and there ain't much meat on them bones. You are a soft hearted person like me. I too can not stand to see a domesticated animal starve. I can't afford and don't want to feed the truly wild ones. I am planting forage for the birds and smaller beasts. The coyotes haven't been going hungry and I hope that the hawks don't either.
DH and I just took a walk across the farm. It is so beautiful this time of year. The green is emerging, and the native chamomile (aka pineapple weed) is starting to come up. DH found several pack rat nests. (see Photo) This one he is standing next to for scale (DH is 5'9") while some are bigger and others are smaller. The pussy willows are starting to bud out, and pretty soon my allergies will be driving me crazy, but it is all worth it. I noticed while on our walk, that the areas where DH disced but did not overlap the rows have stripes of green. Too much area to cover the whole place, but the corn gluten should work well in my garden.

1Anjil, I don't know if you need to do both, but if you have the money to, what would it hurt? Although I think I'd trust imapigeon on this since, she has experience and I don't with the corn gluten. Even if new seed comes in (I get a lot of presents from the wind blowing and birds), at least there are fewer weeds and they are easy to pull. Then compost or feed to chickens. : )

WIB,
SW