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    Watermelon Seeds!

    Alright, so maybe growing watermelon in the high desert isn’t the best idea, but they’re so incredibly good!  There really is no proper substitute on a hot summer day! We’ve tried to grow watermelon a couple of times with no luck.  I think it might have been a mixture of…

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    Harvest Monday

    Happy Monday everyone! Not a ton to report today in the way of actual harvests as we’re nearing the end of our greens and there’s a bit of a break between them and my spring plantings.  I still haven’t mastered this whole succession planting schedule but there is a lot…

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    Garden Happiness(es)

    We have never before had so much green happening in our yard at this time of year!  I think part of the reason is our exceptionally warm winter and spring and part of it is all the seed starting we did this spring under our grow lights.  It is very…

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    Broody

    Whelp…we have our first broody hen.  This is Blondie (called that because of all her yellow coloring…all our other Ameracaunas have a rustier coloring to their feathers) and she’s officially gone broody over the past week.  Being that she’s a little over a year old and it’s spring, I guess…

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    Independence Days

    Happy Friday, everyone!!! I’ve continued to hope that the warm weather will stick around and have been slowly transplanting hardened off veggies into either the ground or their permanent pots.  I have to continuously fight the urge to put everything in the ground right now, but we are very close!…

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    Strawberry Pot

    I’ve read mixed reviews about strawberry pots, but we were given one last year that has since sat empty and figured it was time to give it a try.  So, we purchased some Allstars to give them a shot since we already have a small Quinault patch in our front…