Archive for "Garden Journal"
Basil Plants in the Garden
And mushroom
If you look closely you’ll see a volunteer mushroom growing too. Unfortunately I don’t know what kind of mushroom so we won’t harvest it, but it should be good for the soil.
Rainwater Harvesting
The center area of our land is fairly flat and clear. We’ve decided a section of this will be our primary homestead area in the next year or two.
We’re not moving the camper over there until we’ve got a well, so that we can have …
Pallet Garden Fence
As part of my ongoing struggle to protect my food gardens from critters, I decided to try building a pallet garden. Technically it’s a pallet garden fence and while it’s too soon to tell how the plants will fare inside of it, I like it …
Protecting Tomato Plants from Critters
In one of my earlier writings, I mentioned several challenges we’ve had with trying to grow food in the desert. One of the most frustrating in our first year here has been the critters. We have bunny rabbits that run around, I’ve seen at least one jack rabbit, and …
Challenges Growing Food in the Desert
We’ve been living on the land now for five and a half months, and I quickly discovered growing food was going to be one of my biggest challenges in this adventure. The soil is viable and things grow just fine, but there are a number of critters that want the …
Corn Sprouts & New Plantings
I got my very first corn sprout Wednesday. I found three actually, one was almost an inch up while two others had just peaked their tips through the soil surface.
I haven’t done a great job tracking my planting dates and …
Our Very First Tree
W’s dad brought us our very first tree today! It’s an orange tree–Citrus sinensis ‘Trovita’–about two feet tall and a couple of beginning blossoms are already on it. The flower blooms are small and white, and they have a rich, heady scent …
First Vegetable Patches Planted
Even though it’s only our second full day on the land, I couldn’t resist going ahead and getting some of my vegetable patches started 
This picture may not be the greatest because I took it with my cell phone and it’s …