Tag: El Nino

Planting Seeds in the Rain of El Nino

thelatebloomer | January 5, 2016 | Reply

I found myself planting seeds in the rain of El Nino today during our first rain event. If you’ve been following California weather, you know we are supposed to get extreme weather during this winter’s El Nino. Only a drought-weary gardener ventures out with a bad cold to plant seeds in the rain. It wasn’t planned. It was […]

Battening Down the Hatches

thelatebloomer | October 19, 2015 | 4 Replies

I’m battening down the hatches. With this year’s El Nino now considered “Too big to fail,” I put gardening on hold to get some much needed repairs done to the house. If you haven’t heard from me since my Miami Web Fest news that Late Bloomer won for “Best Edutainment Series,” I’ve been busy! Today, two workers […]

Dear Kaye, You are my inspiration! Though I have been gardening veggies and flowers for many years here in upstate NY, one day I needed advice on growing cabbage and I found you. I show your videos to anyone who will listen. You make us feel like your neighbor. I would love to be your neighbor! What a spirit you have and you have sparked my garden bug this year and just now as I was out checking all 90 plus plants that I have, I kept hearing you say “be vigilant” *smiles* THANK YOU… Read more

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