January 2009
10 January 2009 - 17:34, Tinman said
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On an incomparably gorgeous day such as today, there is nothing finer than planting native plants in a public space — which is exactly what the Edgehill Mt Volunteers did today. We managed to install 180 plants — California fescue, California brome, California melic grass, elderberry, and mimulus — in our regular two-hour workparty.
Unfortunately, the flip side of this gorgeous weather is that the winter rains are failing us, so we also had to spend a fair bit of time watering in these new recruits.
However, even with only the occasional watering that we can manage, our success rate has been excellent. The areas we’ve been working on for the past number of years are looking spectacular! Nearly all the planted stuff is thriving, and we continue to discover new remnant populations that emerge once the weeds are reliably out of the way.
One very welcome result from the clear skies is that the ehrharta grass plague is in remission. Ehrharta does not do well at all when dry, so if climate change accomplishes nothing else, it may help eradicate ehrharta from the Bay Area.
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