![]() What a water year! I also hadn’t been able to fertilize the lawns either. But diligent watchfulness paid off.Īt the end of June, I hadn’t been able to do many landscape maintenance chores due to the rains. After surviving that invasion, then came the tomato hornworms. First, there were armyworms, which I handpicked for weeks. That’s not to say that the garden was without its challenges. The leaf mold soil nature and I had been making for over a decade ended up giving me the best yield of tomatoes and lemon cucumbers I had ever had. I finally got my “recycled” garden in by early June. They had carved trails out of much of our main lawn area, after living under the snow for so long. By early April the winter vole damage was revealed as the worst I had ever seen. Though they did persist, unfortunately, the weight of the wet snow that turned to ice, combined with the wind, broke many tree branches, not only at our house, but throughout Northern Nevada.Īt the end of March, I wrote not to work wet soils, to avoid damaging the structure of the soil. ![]() Then, with two feet of snow on the ground into March and wet cold weather, I worried if our trees would survive the inundation. That was followed by flooding, which provided our annual rainfall in one week. We were without power, water or heat for five days. I thought I would look back on all the gardening experiences I had this year. This is my last article for 2023, but I’ll be back early next year.
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