Spring                Waning Seed Moon

A very windy day with a high wind alert for gusts over 40 mph.  We had a 29 mph gust at noon.  The day has warmed since morning, the sun has stayed bright.  A good day for the plants though the wind sucks up some of the moisture we got.

Since 11:30 today, our high winds speeds per half hour have been:  23, 21, 24, 28, 29,28, 23, 26, 26.

It’s spring for sure.  The folks from Ecological Gardens came out and made a presentation today on their plans for our continuing conversion to permaculture.  Permaculture is Australian rules sustainable horticulture.

I just got off the phone with our sprinkler guy, too.  We have to shift out a zone from overhead sprinklers to drip.  This zone covers our newly installed orchard with fruit trees, berry patches and nut-bearing hedges.  My old irrigation clock (controller) went kerflooey on me, so I had to get a new one.  The old one was unrepairable and so yesterday.  This new one is a great advance.  Or so Jeff Sutter told me.  We’ll see.