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Tough year in the vegetable garden
This has been one of the most challenging years in the veggie garden that I can remember. First the leafhoppers arrived in spring to infect the tomato plants with the curly top virus they carry, a...
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Final Harvest 2013
Now that the harvest season is over, I have so much to catch up on with you all from this season. Seems when I am in the middle of the gardening season, I’m just too tired to write about all the things...
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My tomatoes love the sun and warmth!
Last week was warm and sunny-just what tomatoes need to ripen. Temperatures in the mid 80s. It’s a little cooler this week but still nice. Suddenly I have all kinds of tomatoes ripening-yea! Up till...
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Fall harvest season is full blast right now!
Harvest season is full blast right now. Started out with our Home Grown New Mexico ‘Jam On’ class where we made a Strawberry-balsamic jam and a terrific Blueberry jam. Then the grapes ripened-ate lots...
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Fall garden clean up-slow and easy
Fall is a wonderful time of the year. The pace slows down for us gardeners. The perennial plants are looking sleepy now as am I, ready for our winter slumber. I want to prune the plants as they are...
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Final Clean Up in the Garden
I’ve now cleaned out most of the beds except where the gourds are, the kale bed and the 2 perennials in the garden. The gourds are drying nicely and I picked some of them this week. These are African...
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Garden Harvest Early October
I love this time of year. It’s like the garden’s gone wild, everything ready for harvest all at once and a sense of urgency is felt by me and the vegetables to get it done. Get it picked, get it...
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Curing Potatoes
A friend of mine asked me why a few of her potatoes that she just harvested are soft. I honestly don’t know except that I know we need to ‘cure’ potatoes for about a week before we store them to heal...
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The last of the summer harvest-Nov 4
The garden finally froze last night in earnest and I got to say I’m relieved that I don’t have to go out and harvest today. Not bad being that we went up to November 4th before it succumbed. I still...
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Drying tomatoes
So someone gave me a jar of dehydrated tomatoes in olive oil and I thought they looked very beautiful and I know when you put them in pasta dishes, it’s bursts of intense tomato flavor. A great...
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Kale
This year I grew 3 different varieties of kale-above is the Russian Red and Winterbor Curly kale growing together Here is the Lacinto being shaded by the grape vine with carrots growing in front Of the...
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Finally the Garden is cleaned up-Nov 23
The garden is CLEAN! Here I am siting on the bench on Nov 23. How desolate it looks compared to the picture below in summer. I put all the dead tomatoes and squash plants in the trailer to haul to the...
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What’s with all these green tomatoes?
I’ve lived here for 21 years and have never seen the tomatoes ripen this late. In fact the majority of them in my garden are still green. I have a few sungolds and black cherry tomatoes and one Pink...
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Extending the Season-Making a Low Tunnel
I taught a class in late August on Planting for a Fall Harvest where I showed the students you don’t have to have a Greenhouse to extend the season. You can also have a cold frame or even simpler is...
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Chickens enjoy some lettuce
In August a made a lettuce/mesclun bowl. I should have thinned it out so I could have cut and come again the greens but didn’t. If I had thinned it out, I would have gotten some great greens. So I gave...
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Growing Season for 2016/Fall Harvest
This has been a most remarkable growing season this year. In fact, I can’t remember in all my 21 years here of weather like this. After two months of unseasonably hot summer weather at the beginning...
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Cold Weather Continues in Santa Fe
This past weekend was pretty decent weather wise but is due to change again midweek with a big cold front coming in. Yeow! The nights will be colder with temps dropping in the teens again. This...
View ArticleGarden officially done for 2017
The garden officially finished on the night of October 9. There were a few cool season crops that did fine in the 27°F temperature-mainly beets, carrots, kale, and bok choy but all the warm season...
View ArticleCold nights are here-protect you plants!
Here it is Friday, November 17 2017 and I was just remarking that except for the one cold night that killed off all the tomatoes in September, how warm it has been. If it wasn’t for that one freezing...
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