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Harvest Monday

Harvest Monday

Happy Monday, everyone!Well, as I mentioned yesterday, the cold is toying with us!  We were forecasted to hit freezing temps last weekend, but alas, nothing happened.  I'm guessing this will be our last large harvest before bringing in all the green tomatoes in the next week or so and the potatoes that we're hoping have matured under cover, but I…
October 8, 2012
Harvest Monday

Harvest Monday

Happy Monday, everyone!I promise we harvested more than a couple of peppers, a melon and a few tomatoes!Happy Hot PeppersOur Mystery Melon!  Tomato Bounty:(top row) Italian Heirloom, Sweet Small Cherry, Bi-Color Cherry, Orange Flesh Purple Smudge, Cherokee Purple(bottom row) Yellow Taxi, Black From Tula, RomaUnfortunately, due to busy-ness, those are the only three photographs that were taken of this weeks…
October 1, 2012
Harvest Monday

Harvest Monday

Happy Monday everyone!According to the Farmer's Almanac, we are in for a cold, wet winter!  I'll take the snow, but am hopeful the cold part is a normal cold and not a frigid one! We are planning two hoop houses in the backyard this year in which to over winter a few crops.  In addition to plastic sheeting and water bottles…
September 24, 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
Itty Bitty Fruit

Itty Bitty Fruit

Well, it looks like we just might have made it through this last little cold snap OK.  Everything that's in the garden so far seems unharmed by the freezing temps we had the last few nights and for at least the next week our lowest low is supposed to be 38 degrees.  SWEET!  My main concern was the fruit trees…
April 18, 2012
Spring Blossoms

Spring Blossoms

If our fruit trees don't suffer a hard freeze for the next month and a half, this just might be our first year of real  fruit harvests (you know, real as in more than 8 or 10 apples)!  Oh, my fingers are crossed and I am so hopeful, but with the warm winter we've had everything is blooming way too…
April 2, 2012