Happy Monday, everyone! I promise we harvested more than a couple of peppers, a melon and a few tomatoes! Happy Hot Peppers Our 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, Roma Unfortunately,…
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…
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,…
Last summer, I was given a couple of packets of heirloom tomato seeds by a friend/co-worker. I couldn’t think of a better gift! One of those packets contained a few tiny Barnes Mountain Yellow Tomato seeds! I had never before heard of such a thing, was super excited to try…
But I do find a great sense of satisfaction in feeding horn worms to our chickens. Especially after they’ve successfully destroyed several tomatoes. Stupid worms.
Happy Monday everyone! Amazingly, in this time of bountiful harvests, I haven’t actually been harvesting very often! Not because there wasn’t anything to harvest, but because other life-happenings have been getting in the way. Nothing to worry about though, everything’s fine…just very busy these days (is this becoming a theme/habit?).…