Gardening Journal

We’ve been enjoying satsuma manderines daily. My four year old son goes out and picks a few, peels them and shares with any takers. I love them. Makes me want to plant even more fruit trees. I have a dwarf orange — which has green fruit currently — and tangelo which has no fruit…we’ll see if they come around in the winter months.

Today I planted spinach, bibb lettuce, red and white onions, and six splendid basil plants. It’s November in southern California, so it’s dicey whether or not these things will make it. I mixed worm castings with vegetable grower’s soil together and mixed them in my raised beds. For onions, I planted them from bulb and starters — sweet white & red onions. Harvest time is about 110 days, so we’ll see which do better, by bulb or starter

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It feels good to get my fingers in the soil; it’s been too long! I was inspired to do some planting because we’ve been eating our first batch of satsuma manderines: delicious! We planted that tree in early spring, this is our first fruit tree to be ripe, along with the lemons (which are great to have but just aren’t the same to eat!)

What are you planting for winter harvest? I’m curious to hear what other gardeners reap during the winter months.