I'll just do zucchini this summer. I planted nothing this fall and winter. If the zucchini doesn't make it with minimal water, then I won't have it this summer. I've avoided much adding of plants because of the drought.

In the garden already: peas, carrots, kale, chard, brussels sprouts, lettuces, spinach, and broccoli. Getting ready to put out: tomatoes, peppers, summer squash, cucumbers, and beans. I justify my garden water use as it's the only irrigation I do (no lawn), other than my fruit trees. And I mulch like a maniac.

I've started broccoli, cauliflower, turnips, kale, and lettuce outside and my roma tomatoes are starting inside to transfer later. Next I plan to work on onions, spinach, carrots, celery, and brussel sprouts outside. And soon I'll start more tomato varieties, eggplant, pumpkins, and sunflowers.

It feels like we could start planting everything with these 80 temps. Although I have no idea what the soil temp is.

In the ground now which will be finishing off - snow peas, kale, swiss chard, carrots, beets, garlic, and lettuce. I have started tomato and pepper seedlings. In March or April, I will start zucchini, okra, green beans, basil, and probably a few other things. This warm weather is encouraging me to put the tomato plants out but it is supposed to cool off next week.

i guess i'll skip to summer veggies given the weather. i found 3
volunteer tomatoes from last summer - sprouted from dropped fruit! so
i'll be digging those up and transplanting them to the garden.

i'm
trying cocoa leaves as mulch this year - hoping that will discourage
kitties and keep the roots cool. today i'm planting carrots, beets,
cucumbers, radish, beans, lettuces, bok choy, spinach. i know some of
these are cooler season - but fast growing so i guess i'm spreading my
risk given the unpredictable temps.

I'm in Los Angeles

my swiss chard, okra and kale made it through the drought without water so I just put some more seeds out. Collect rain water and start summer veg during rains so I don't water much.

I have carrots, radish, chard, peas, lettuce, asparagus, rhubarb, garlic, leeks beets and turnips.

just started the seed for runner beans, hyacinth beans, watermelon, pumpkin, tomato, cucumbers, more okra, herbs, parsnips, and onions.

wow sounds like a nice garden! do you have good luck with leeks? what's your method?

and you're already starting okra? my little calendar says april - but i planted a little late last year and didn't get much from it. also, i ended up with only one plant so wasn't enough to get a meal from really. how many plants do you grow to get a decent harvest?

Okra is perennial around here but hard to germinate because we don't get much water. Some okra I planted last year just came up. I had five plants last year and it gave me a few okra every day for three months. Never got to pick enough for a meal. Wish I knew how many plants would give me a meal, going to try twenty this year.

I haven't had luck with leeks but I think I planted too late last year It was almost summer. The seedlings took almost a month to come up then succumbed to summer drought.. This year I started the leeks in January and just now got seedlings.

Spring is here early! Plant anything that loves warm/hot weather: beans, sunflower, cucumber, squash, peppers, tomatoes (in a few weeks), and flowers. Enjoy:)

I have broccoli,kale and lettuce..I planted a tomato plant wondering if it's to early weather supposed to cool down,i picked my first pea and have several blooming..I also have a indoor garden with tomatoes,zukes and basil..

Collards, kale, chard, arugula, sugar snaps, favas, shallots and some sad over wintered onion seedlings and hot pepper plants, most in self watering pots.

Also grapes, nectarines, figs, lemons and oranges.

Those balmy 80 degree January days are but a faint memory. My soil is back to between 40-60 degrees Fahrenheit. Expect the watermelon, tomato, corn and cucumber seed will just wait until it's warmer to come up. Hopefully the pumpkin and beans plants are ok with spring temperatures.

in the meantime I been doing lots of trades and sowing a bunch of plants for an herb, butterfly and hummingbirds garden. Off to lurk and learn.

Almost everything I planted less than two weeks ago has come up - green beans, cucumber, beets, radish, lettuce, kale, spinach, carrots, bok choy. And the two volunteer tomatoes (from last year's dropped fruit) are doing well transplanted into the garden.
This rain has really helped get those seeds germinated. And the cocoa shells are really helping too I think. The raccoons and cats have avoided the beds since I put it down.

Also the rain has brought up my wildflowers - mostly clarkia and poppies - which are tall and starting to bloom. On the other hand, that storm last week pulled down a Ceanothus I planted a year and a half ago - which is now 10-12 feet tall - it was 18" a year ago. But I've got it staked now and hopefully it will make it.

What are you planting for your herb butterfly hummer garden wildhair? My hummingbird sage is finally really taking - I've got it planted next to the veggie beds to lure the pollinators. And the wildflowers are super popular too.

Sloane, you have the green thumb. I just put mostly sages, runner bean, scarlet vine, Going to try monkey flower, and some penstamon.

For the butterflies I have dill, carrots, sweet Annie, rotted fruit, and wild licorice. Need to mail that monarch society and get some milk weed, butterfly flower.