beets

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Harvest Monday

Harvest Monday

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 so…
November 26, 2012
Harvest Monday

Harvest Monday

Happy Monday everyone!Tool Lady taming the jungle. I escaped Homework Land just long enough to snap a couple of pictures :-)How do you know that your wife loves you?  When she chooses to spend the majority of her Saturday cleaning up the garden and bringing in what's left to harvest while you work on homework for 14 hours straight!  True story,…
October 15, 2012
Harvest Monday

Harvest Monday

Happy Monday everyone!The past week has brought us all kinds of weather...clear and cold, cloudy and rainy, clear and warm...short sleeve days followed by two layers of long sleeves and then short sleeves again.  Welcome to fall in Santa Fe! The garden and chickens don't like it very much, but I'm used to it :-)The beans are almost completely dead,…
September 17, 2012
Harvest Monday

Harvest Monday

Happy Monday everyone!August is rushing by in a bit of a blur.  Have you ever heard the saying that goes something like, "life is what happens when you're busy making other plans"?  Yeah...that's the kind of the month I've had so far and there seems to be no end in sight! The good news is, there's lots of happy things…
August 20, 2012
Harvest Monday

Harvest Monday

Do you ever have those weeks where time just zooms by and you're not quite sure where it went?  Yep, last week felt that way for me!  It was the last week of the summer camp I manage and I'm not really sure where each of the days went!  There were even evenings that I came home and didn't walk…
July 30, 2012
Sowing Fall Seeds

Sowing Fall Seeds

While it always feels funny to me to start fall crops in the middle of summer, I am learning the importance of giving them the opportunity to get their roots under them well before the temperature drops. This will be our third fall and winter during which we will attempt to continue to grow some veggies while the temperatures drop…
July 25, 2012