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Garden adjacent, this just went into effect. This is great news for seed starting and for just keeping homes cool!

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House Bill 2342 stops homeowner associations from barring the use or installation of shade structures, allowing only "reasonable rules" to dictate their size and placement.

The law protects Arizona homeowners' right to put up umbrellas, awnings, gazebos and canopies on their property. HOAs will still be allowed to restrict the size and location of shade structures as long as the restrictions don't interfere with the structures' functionality or unreasonably increase the costs for the homeowner. Height and setback requirements cannot be more restrictive than existing zoning ordinances in the area.

I'm working weird hours, was more sick than I realized in my last video (not deadly sick, but also not run around in the summer sun and take on extra projects and stuff.

Anyway, my hours are different so posting at 4am isn't weird if you're me, but it might be weird if you're not, me. Enjoy my ramblings.

It's just a short unnarrated tour of the garden, but it's what I had time for. And I got to play with stickers 😅

NOAA confirmed El Niño, so I looked up what that could mean for gardening here.

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We're likely to get infrequent, big storms, with hot dry periods in between. This is bad and good. Bad for the obvious yuck factor but we can expect some good out of it too. While blazing hot with lower consistent rainfall sucks, the humidity will likely arrive early and thick! Sounds gross for humans, but plants are really going to appreciate high humidity while the summer furnace is on!

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I'm going to focus on building berms and swales to try to direct water towards my garden beds. My yard is pretty flat, so my goal is to put water closer to roots when I can. I'll probably go for ephemeral ponds in other areas where I know I'm not going to have the willpower to stand around in the sun and shovel dirt in a line across the yard! 😅

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If you have a sloping yard look up berm and swale construction. It's fairly easy to do on a small scale. If you notice you have areas that collect a lot of water that could be a place for one of riparian trees, like the screwbean mesquite, which often grows near dry river beds and may spend a lot of time with very wet feet then spend a lot longer without much water at all.

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We can expect more consistent rain in the winter. I haven't looked into what that could mean for planting, but my immediate thoughts are brassicas, and maybe some cold tolerant tropicals? Idk. I usually don't plan that far ahead unless there's a steep sale on seeds.

This residency in the wizard program really skyrocketed my career in the suburban druidry programs. I've been awarded a wiggly sunflower to form my staff from (the ceremonial one only) and sprawling bramble from which to govern my trove of baby lizards and ever growing horde of gourds and squash.

My Pox, and the counter-pox upon the land which I had cast continue nicely, with no signs of zoonosis. It will continue until my own pox abates. (/uw get your shingles vaccines! Shingles is way friggin worse than anyone describes, and the doctor said it could still be "active" a year from now even though I'm mostly not contagious anymore... Just don't lick my zosters/rw)