ronincats' 2014 garden

Here in southern California, we never really stop gardening, but we do have seasons. Here are my peas this week.

>1 ronincats: What happens in the different seasons, gardening-wise?

Primarily cool season versus warm season, Katherine. Warm season vegetables like tomatoes, eggplant, peppers, squash, corn, cucumber, potatoes, and green beans don't really take off in a normal season until the end of June when our marine overcast (caused by the interior heating of the deserts pulling in moisture over the coastal areas here) disperses and our days start being warmer and sunnier. In November, when everything cools down, it's back to greens (lettuce, chard, spinach, arugula), beets, carrots, cruciferous vegetables, and peas. Many of these latter can be grown along the coast all year, if it doesn't get too hot. Since I have limited space, I tend to alternate them by season. Herbs can grow year-round.

>3 ronincats: Ah. An alien world to me.

Alien world to me, too, but I LOVE seeing pictures of green things when I'm still looking out the window at snow, and it's interesting to compare with home.

Woo! Found your thread and dropped a star!

Look at those pretty peas!

>8 ronincats: Pretty!

New camera. That sucker was 30 feet away up in the tree!

>10 ronincats: Oh, nice. What's the camera?

A Panasonic Lumix FZ70, it's got a 60X optical zoom!

I have a Panasonic FZ200, relatively new, haven't seriously fiddled with all its controls. Only 24X zoom. It's not my usual garden camera though, because it was too expensive to get grungy. 60X is impressive!