Grafting Peach

Babcock (foreground) and August Pride on Red Barron with dwarf rootstock.

Grafting Peach

Red Barron (foreground) and August Pride on Babcock.

Strawberries Planted

Great fruit set on Valencia orange

Tensiometer Installed

Today I installed a 12" Irrometer tensiometer in the SW corner of the Zutano avocado drip line.  This device is designed to measure the force required for the roots to pull water out of the soil.  When the soil is at field capacity, the tensiometer reads zero.  I will monitor this meter daily and record gauge readings to determine when to irrigate.

Lettuce bed ready to plant

Planted 30 lettuce 11/16.  Planted 12 arugula 11/18. Planted 3 spinach 11/20.

Strawberries Fertilized and Mulched

Avocado

Spring leaf tips salt burned. Summer growth okay due to August
leaching. Next year need to leach both late spring and summer.
11/20/13 Update: More summer growth is salt burned.  Several leachings may be reqiured.  Tensiometer installed to improve irrigation.

12 Garlic and 45 Onion Sprouted

Preparing Strawberry Bed

Pruning plants, fertilizing and covering the ground with clear PE
mulch. Plants have many crowns and are already starting to produce.