Happy Monday, everyone! Welp, it’s that time of year again…warm days and chilly evenings followed by snow on the ground and the reminder that it really is still winter, despite the Spring Fever that keeps tempting me to put some seeds in the ground on the sunny days. Soon enough, though…soon enough! Until then, though, at least our old stand…
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Well, after what feels like a very long time, we are finally harvesting again! I always forget how a few greens growing under grow lights can brighten up our lunches and make me yearn for Spring and all that She brings with her! In addition to the hopefulness of greens, our ladies are happily laying again as well. There were…
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I had high hopes for our potatoes this year. I purchased 10 pounds of German Butterball seed potatoes last spring and added them to a few random (sprouting) potatoes we had laying around (a few red and a few purple). We had new beds and old beds to plant them in as well as a few garbage cans for the…
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Happy Monday, everyone! Well, I am happy to report that we finally harvested some beets! Three full pounds of them! These guys were planted in the late spring in one of my bio intensive beds (corn, bush beans and beets) as an experiment and did pretty well. They were a little slow to grow, I think because the corn grew…
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Happy Monday, everyone! This week brought us a few more potatoes and the surprise of a pie pumpkin and a Roma tomato that were hiding beneath the potato leaves! Amazingly, both the pumpkin and the tomato are completely fine, despite the multiple freezes we’ve had over the past couple of weeks! I guess they were “mulched” perfectly by the leaves…
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Happy Monday everyone! Well, the cold has officially hit. It will warm up again, but our lows over the last couple of days have been down in the teens (not normal for Santa Fe in November), which has given me some pause. After last years mild winter, I’m wondering how this winter will really treat us… Anyhow, we’re lucky enough…
