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Yearly Archives: 2012
Video: In the garden…Planting Onions – December 30, 2012
“In the garden…” is a series for A Gardener’s Notebook highlighting what is happening in my garden, my friend’s gardens and California gardens throughout the seasons.
Today, planting onion sets…finally.
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Elsewhere: Simple Container Plantings for Intriguing Garden Design from Houzz.com
Video: Container Vegetable Update 008 – Squirrels a-diggin’
2012 Gift Guide: Wells Lamont Wet and Muddy Latex Coated Gardening Glove
2012 Gift Guide: Yes, You Can! And Freeze and Dry It, Too: The Modern Step-By-Step Guide to Preserving Food
2012 Gift Guide: Handy Farm Devices And How To Make Them (1909)
Photo: Our neighbor, Maria, builds a fence
I came across Maria on my walk yesterday and she was building this lovely bamboo fence. She mentioned that the panels are from a company in San Diego. I planning on going back and interviewing her on video to get more details.
Garden Alphabet: Nandina
I am starting to approach this as a project, collecting garden photos for each letter of the alphabet. I will then collect them into a poster for sale, I think.
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Amazing photo collection of Southern California gardens (and more) at turn of 20th Century
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What I’m Reading… Jam It, Pickle It, Cure It by Karen Solomon
Video: Geraniums on a hot LA Day – from Viddy
New Series: Garden Inventory: Eucalyptus
Garden Inventory is a series where I begin an inventory of all the plants and trees in my garden. Along with some of my own pictures, I will link to various sources of information about each plant and tree so we can learn a little more together.
I would also like to highlight your special plants and tress. Pass along your favorite plants in the comments and I will use them for future Garden Inventory posts. — Douglas
Garden Inventory: Eucalyptus
One of the largest — and most striking trees — in our garden is this large eucalyptus planted by the previous owners. It used to have a matching twin, but that tree threatened to come crashing down on the garden, power and phone lines during a past, rain heavy, El Niño year here in Southern California.
It is said that eucalyptus were originally brought to California from Australia to be used as cheap wood for railroad ties during the settling of the American West. It was only after they were heavily planted, though, that the people realized they were nearly worthless due to tendency of the wood to twist and split. In fact, it is this same tendency which seems to make the eucalyptus shed limbs at a rather frightening rate. It is typical after a strong wind storm to see eucalyptus limbs scattered about. Still, with our tree, we have been very lucky as it has not had any major structural failures in the 16 years we have owned the property.
Instead of railroad ties, eucalyptus is now heavily used as windbreak trees throughout the Southern California area. You will find them nearly anywhere you visit, but especially lining farm fields and citrus groves.
Eucalyptus are mostly native to Australia, although some species do grow elsewhere in Indonesia.
Eucalyptus oil is often used in cough and cold remedies and in the past I have taken a small branch of leaves to hang just outside my shower. The steam from the shower helps to release the oils. It smells wonderful and can help to relieve basic chest and sinus congestion.
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All About Douglas – Choose what you want to see and hear from me in 2013!
I have a lot of interests, as most of you already know. Therefore, I have a lot of different blogs, events, and groups in my portfolio of online engagements. I also try to make myself available wherever people want to converse. This means that each of my interests usually has multiple presences on the Internet.
Here is a list of almost all of the ways you can talk with me and learn about what is happening in my life and work. You don’t need to, nor should you, try to subscribe to all of them. That would only lead to you seeing multiple copies of the same information. Rather, pick and choose whatever ways you would like to consume my “content.” If you are a heavy Facbeook user, you might want to join my pages there. Is Google+ catching your fancy? I have a home over there, too. Maybe email is your thing? No problem, almost all of my content can be emailed directly to your Inbox.
My goal is to make my content available in whatever way makes the most sense to you. It also means you can contact me and converse with me on your favorite online services. This list is also broken down by interest. If you want to see everything I post and share, the first section is where you can find it. This will contain information from all my areas of interest including events, careers, gardening, technology and my organizations.
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Pink ‘Porcelain Doll’ Pumpkins
Looking for something new to try in your garden? Very interesting Pink ‘Porcelain Doll’ Pumpkins.
Discovered via Pinterest user Vanessa Ritter.
Source: dpseeds.com via Vanessa on Pinterest
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Huge Sfusato Lemon – A cross between a lemon and citron
My sister sent me this photo after we talked about these huge lemons in our family Google Hangout today. My goodness are they huge! After seeing this I had to do some research to see exactly what this beast was.
After doing a little Internet research, it looks like this is a Sfusato lemon — also referred to as Lo Sfusato Amalfitano”, Limone Costa d’Amalfi” or Coast of Amalfi Lemons. This is a registered and protected name under the European food laws, just as you might see with various wines.
I have seen references to these lemons be used to make the traditional Italian Limoncello liqueur and also that they are a hybrid cross between a lemon and a citron.
My sister’s friends have a tree growing in the yard in the Palm Springs area of California. I have not seen or heard of these before, but I think I will need to convince these friends to part with 4 or 5 of these fruits so that I might make a batch of Limoncello with them. It would be interesting to see if this gets a little closer to the Italian-made versions I have tried.
See my videos on making your own limoncello here.
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