Today is the shortest day of the year, known as many names but Winter Solstice is the common one. From now on the days get longer as the sun begins to move more to the north. Yay!
It's going to be a very dry winter this season unfortunately. Looking back at my photos and posts from a year ago we had rain in August and we had cloudy and drizzly weather in December. We got a late Santa Ana which means we are still on a dry streak for a month now.
Meanwhile back in the garden. I'm concerned about the radishes, I guess I didn't plant them deep enough again or they are not getting enough sun. The ones on the west side are more stretched out and larger than the ones on the east. It may well be a matter of more shade due to the sun angle and with this being the Solstice, I will likely try to find another packet of radish seeds to put in as well as replanting lettuce. These were taken day before yesterday and shows everything is growing as fast as it can. As expected, the bougainvillea is growing again, anxious about what they will do with it. Keep an eye on the raised bed, off to the left in the photo is that one lone potato sprout coming up.
Yesterday something dug in the bed right where the potato was sprouting and buried it in dirt. Since the spud was still there, I suspect it was just an opportunistic cat using it as a litter box. I had to move the soil around a bit to find it and discovered it had very small, fragile roots so I just pulled it and buried the potato piece more.
I watered everything again, best I could, you can see how dry the soil was even about an inch down. Oh I also pulled the onion that I put next to the trellis, it wasn't getting enough water and was very limp despite having roots. The others are doing fine as well as the cilantro. 
Right now we have an interesting example of higher supply the more traffic. The bird of paradise are still blooming like crazy and then I noticed that the vibrunum bushes were blooming as well. Guess where the bees were? Bird of Paradise flowers because the nectar was less work to find and drink. The flowers on the viburnum are very small and are more suited to a butterfly tongue than a bee. Problem is, there aren't any butterflies around this time of year, not even moths because it's too cold for them and wrong time of year for their life cycle. You can barely see it but there is a bee on that flower at the base of the purple/blue tongue part where it meets the orange flags.
That's it from the garden for this week. Christmas is in a few days so we'll see if 'Santa' brings me anything for the garden this year.
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