Hops

Chinook plant is making a comeback after already being this tall and nicely trimmed down to one main shoot. Trimming all the new growth off that plant almost every other day just to keep all the energy into production of flowers and roots instead of other shoots.

new chainsaw.

chiles planted.

jalapenos and jemez pueblo green chiles..

still windy and dry yet we're sowing seeds..

purple carrots from the first planting:

spring is windy in the mountains

two shots of the main garden;
garlic in the far background with cucumber trellis in foreground:

carrot screen and lettuce, kale and beets coming up around that..

New Chicken Coop

we brought the old nesting box for ernie's birds to the new coop:




The jersey giants getting used to their bigger, better home:

April, Twenty-Ten

garlic:

things are getting done.

clover all over the main garden:


garlic tops coming up!:

sunflowers

i just can not wait. i am digging up old digital photo albums

From High desert home garden

more soon.....

Compost Bin Construction

selecting the finest pallets for our third and probably final compost bin:

Winter

The last four months in a nutshell:

new ceiling fan helping us heat our house with just the wood stove (second year now without any other heat sources!

home sweet home:

two things we need...

...to get the 2010 growing season going:

#1) a replacement pump head for the broken pump we currently have.