Ok! thanks.
new banana cutting well timed with rain this may find a home in the earth.
strawberry bush also from a buds plant. not sure where and how to manage this one. any tips welcome !
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Great job! What will you amend with before planting the peas?
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So far, it has been soooo wet, I have stayed inside and dreamt of seeds and plants.
I do need to plant at least 3 bareroots fruits this year. Iām in Sunset Zone 14 and will have to wait until Iām sure frost is done with.
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Wonderful pictorial, thank you. It makes me want to start planning this weekend. That may be the best thing for me to do with all this rain and my worry about my treesā¦ and trying to get a fridge repairman to come out during torrential rains (which is proving to be close to impossible.)
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Me too! But sometimes I like to think parts of my yard are 8/9 or 14/15. I am in northern Solano County.
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Our go-to: composte and worm castings.
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Iām in Central Contra Costa. And same! 
14/15 in the front, 14 in the back, 
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Itās an elite club, to be sure, but I too have killed both rosemary and mint.
Routinely.
You gave me some tips for my dead looking curry leaf stem last year and I am happy to say it is doing much better. I have moved and it lives in a south-facing window on a shelf atop a cast iron radiator. Not actively growing in an Ottawa winter but very much alive.
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Same! I do have a Rosemary plant that is 5 years old. I have never before been able to keep them longer than a summer here in zone 5a. Itās pretty woody and not prolific, but it is enough Rosemary for me to use occasionally so I have hung on to it. It goes outside in the summer.
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I can kill orchids, too, but thatās not nearly as impressive.
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Well, most of us in the desert have committed multiple orchid homicides.
Congratulations on your five-year rosemary! We donāt have to bring them indoors here, and so far theyāve let us know (by dying) that they donāt like pots and much prefer the ground.
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I think that must be someone elseās. My balcony rosemary looks pretty dead, although Iāll keep watering it 'til spring, just in case.
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I canāt keep orchids or poinsettias going for more than 2 weeks.
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Ouch. I thought it was a weed! JK. So happy to have it. Same with some, but not English Lavender.
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Oops, that was pavlova with the five year rosemary.
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My current project is watching my 8 lavender plants die a slow death, and we havenāt even gotten to the worst of our winter yet. Weāre down to about 4 at this point, and they are slowly wilting and turning brown. They are the winter hearty variety so thereās no reason they should die just due to cold. It takes special care from me to apparently kill them off over months.
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