Maybelline's Garden

Grapefruit - Rio Red Bounteous amounts of citrus means the calendar is closing in on Christmas time.  Here in Bakersfield and probabl...

Rio Red Grapefruit Well, well, well.  Looks like all I had to do was to wait a bit and Blogger would sort out the mess that kept me from...

Miracles.  A scant amount of rain has fallen in the southern San Joaquin Valley.  When the sun came out in force this afternoon, I grabbed t...

My screwed up back doesn't allow me to work in the garden as I would like.  I can't even get down and take photos.  I simply get dow...

On a scale of 1 to 10, having an infestation of scale on my grapefruit tree rates about a 9.  I noticed that ants had been skeletonizing the...

Longer days, warmer days, and good fertilization along with sweet rain on well drained soil all combined to help create a bounty of citrus b...

The weather has been great.  Yesterday it was cool and rainy!  It’s May and it was cool and rainy!!!  Here’s a quick garden update: The stra...