We ’re having a really unfit winter . And by “ we , ” I really just meanme . While the balance of Los Angeles is rejoicing in our sunny 80 ° F day ( rare in winter , even for us ) , I ’m doing a snow dancing every day ( must . snowboard . soon ! ) and mourn my wintertime garden that never was . ( Or more optimistically , not yet . )
Our winter started out unseasonably chilly and cloudy . I ordinarily seed seeds in October or November , but by that clock time the ground was already too moth-eaten and most of my common beet and radishes never germinated . The ones that did germinate are still no more than 6 inches marvellous , straining for sunshine the last duet of months .
Only in mid December did we at last feel some “ normal ” winter weather , soon followed by a delayed Amerindic summer . successive weeks of oestrus and sun have been hard on the plants , and my dinosaur kale ( which I ’ve only begun to harvest ) is starting to bolt already .
On the upper side , the love apple plant I ’d started over the winter as an experiment are finally start to thrive .
The garden is somewhat bare compare to how it see around this same fourth dimension last year . My rainbow chard is rather diminutive , my nose candy peas at a tie-up . My turnips sprouted and arrest , my carrots seem confused .
The raised bed that I ’d plant at the end of summer is giving me hope , though . My fava beans have grow over 4 feet grandiloquent , shade the ruddy cabbage during the hot part of the Clarence Shepard Day Jr. . I ’ve harvested fava beans , komatsuma , spinach , mizuna , rapini , and lettuce from this little 4×6 plot , proving that you do n’t need a caboodle of space to arise a lot of food .
Onions and garlic are starting to sprout , and just the other sidereal day I stuck a few more come and clove in the ground , hoping to take advantage of the warmer weather .
My perennial artichokes are multiplying rapidly and I ’m looking forward to slew of pretty over-embellished bud in the natural spring . By then , maybe “ wintertime ” will in the end number and the rest of my garden will come up too .
Has it beenunseasonably warmwhere you are ?
