Wasn’t planning on doing anything today garden-wise, but we’ve had a break in the rain. It’ll be scattered showers the next few weeks, but today was clear and cold.
In bizarre news there was snow in the Bay Area last night and today Mt. Tam and Mt. Diablo got coated in the white stuff- and even more bizarre there were reports of light snow on twin peaks. You know- in San Francisco!
Ha ha ha holy crap.
No snow in my neck of the woods… yet.
Maybe is a good thing I refrained from putting in some early green beans.
So, the new pots are in their new home!
I have to weed around everything, but I think I’ll drag out the weed whacker for around the pots instead of moving everything for the mower.
In more organizational news I finally tackled the ugly pile of gloves and got rid of the old and torn work gloves, and put my new work gloves on top (thanks for the new gloves mom!)
In order to make sure I don’t throw out two lefts like last time…
Yeah. I’m labeling everything. Everything.
My last labeling failure was the mystery mole pepper, which was labeled without a proper weather-proof marker so it faded.
But my research has panned out!
The mystery mole pepper is in fact a “Chilhuacle Negro”.
I still have to do more digging on the proper care of this guy, but the good news is that the green peppers turning brown is normal for this variety.
The size probably isn’t, so since I already pruned him down a bit, I’m thinking I’m gonna have to cut the last sucker stems and pick the undersize peppers so that in a few months he can put out flowers again.
I’m proud of my resilient pepper, but I have to do more research on how to care for him.
I had some bench moving to do as well.
The bench which has so far survived wood chipper-ing is now living here-
Because it’s former spot will soon become another bed. Lugging the mower up there should be fun for sure, but that’s a problem for tomorrow’s Neanderthal.
Finally, I planted the oregano.
The hardest bit of this was ripping out the old one which had gotten really shabby and shrubby and woody and took gloves and tools for me to finally rip from the soil. But the new guy looks at home with new mulch and a zesty smell.
Tomorrow the new beds come in, we’ll see if I have the energy to set them up tomorrow or if tomorrow is just mowing day.
Nobody can say I’m not getting my exercise!
The Neanderthal Gardens 
Good to hear you haven’t been washed away, sure sounds a lot wetter there than normal – I spent a few weeks in SF in ’91 and it’d been dry for months. How much wetter is it than normal? Is it cooler than normal?
It’s scattered showers from now on, but for a while. We tend to have two seasons- wet and dry, but we definitely are prone to droughts where the wet season is pretty underwhelming or nonexistent. This has not been the case this year starting in November it’s been wet wet wet and cold cold cold! last night in my neighborhood around 5pm it was 49 degrees Fahrenheit so you know it was colder at midnight. Luckily there isn’t anything in the ground that can be killed if we have a freak frost. Carrots supposedly taste better if they spend time in cold weather so… its all good! Hopefully.