Seedlings and Chicken Run

Lemon Cucumber seedling with it's trellis:
hoping to make some good pickles this year.

Chiles are up!

our experimental buried pot irrigation seems to be working well...with warmer summer like weather the jalapenos and jemez chile are coming right up:

(Almost) Everything is in the ground!

Purple pole Beans planted on either side of our sweet new bean trellis/ lettuce shade:

Another Australorp video...

..just because we know they are not going to get any cuter.

A message to all garden tools...

...get tough or die!

Fire on the mountain.

There is smoke in our little valley tonight. The local paper was reporting that smoke could be seen from Albuquerque. We spotted it out the window and had to get up on the roof to check it out..wasn't as close as we originally thought. The fire was probably an idiot camper leaving a campfire that wasn't fully extinguished. The fire is in the Santa Fe National Forest six miles northwest of Jemez Springs. The newspaper also says the fire is about 1400 acres of ponderosa pine/ mixed conifer forest. Evacuations are happening at campsites up there and around Jemez Springs but that is 90 miles from our humble abode.

Australorps

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chickens. day one

got 17 pullets today.. black Australorps..lay brown eggs:

Hopi Black Dye Sunflower.

Edible seed..black shell.

More Paint and The Garlic>

Day two of painting the siding..

left side is pretty much done. all seven windows ..

House Painting, Tomatillos and Other Stuff..

painted (cut and trim) everything low enough to do from the ground..

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.