Planted my asparagus bare root plants!

I dug up this patch of ground and amended the clayey native soil with sand, pumice, wood chips, potting mix, and fertilizer, and finally added some baby basil plants for companions… So glad to own my own home so I’m able to place long term perennial plants in the ground at last!!! I also found this adorable little salamander in the bag of used potting soil that I poured into the hole

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A lovely 64°F afternoon in California in mid January.

Here are some flowers and herbs thriving in my front yard, no small thanks to a little TLC from Rosa 🌹… And we found a cute little salamander (or newt?) hanging out where the yard waste bin was.

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