We had a lot of successes and positive results here but today was a really bad day. A lot of trees and plants got battered in the nasty santa ana wind the last couple days. I went out to look at things and its not pretty. Trees blown over, potted plants blown over, trees defoliated, fruit on the ground. Single digit humidity, strong winds, no bueno. Thought my house was going to lift off over the night.
Still we are lucky to not have a fire to really destroy things here. My focus the next year will be wind and fire hardening the orchard.