What Can Happen with Too Much Rain? Watch that Mulch!!! And sometimes competitive weeds are good.
Rain is wonderful stuff. If it comes and washes the accumulated salts of the last several years out of the root zones of citrus and avocado, that's a good thing. But what happens if there is a little too much of the good stuff? In the winter of 2005, Venture got over 40” of rain, which is 200% of what is normal. The last time big rains occurred prior to that was in the winter of 1997-98. That year the rains were evenly spaced on almost a weekly basis through the winter and into the late spring and over 50" fell. That year we had major problems with both citrus and avocados collapsing from asphyxiation. The same occurred in 2005 but not so pronounced.
Rain is good, right?
Find out reading the article in the Topics in Subtropics Newsletter:
https://ucanr.edu/county/santa-barbara-county/collection/topics-subtropics
