Battling the Birds!! A Cactus Farming Saga

[Bugbear]

Your posts always make me miss AZ!

All last week I was shredding mulch to go around this raised bed.

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Probably not the best picture of me, but that raised bed has a bunch of young fig trees fattening up on one side, and young rootstocks for citrus in the other side. They've grown a lot since this picture was taken... I'll graft citrus onto these rootstocks next year, and the fig trees are for several different people. Now that I think of it, there are some starter bonsai in that patch along with a couple of rosemary plants and even a couple of tiger aloes. I like to stuff all kinds of plants together.

Sadly, I don't have any California poppies right now... this patch is just a big pile of mulch right now, but they will come back in the Winter.
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It's funny, the little seed pods explode when they get dry, and shoot seeds every where. There's several different plants that do that out here.