by Barbara Dawson | Mar 10, 2021 | Education/Training, In the Garden
Phenology: “The study of cyclic and seasonal natural phenomena, especially in relation to climate and plant and animal life.” Last fall a neighbor gave me some daffodil bulbs and I planted them. They stayed covered up all winter and about a week...
by Barbara Dawson | Nov 24, 2020 | Food Preparation, In the Garden
I love garlic! As a gardener, February and March are my — lets get planting times of the year. Seedlings go into small pots with organic planting soil. Here in the southwest I might start some lettuce, kale, sweet peas, cabbage, kohlrabi, and plant some onions with...
by Rebecca Hayter | Sep 14, 2020 | Food Preparation, In the Garden
Fall is my absolute favorite time of year. I’m not sure if that’s because my birthday is on the first day of Fall, or maybe because I just love the change of weather, the smells in the air, pumpkin spice lattes at Starbucks, or maybe all of the above. But...
by Barbara Dawson | Jul 13, 2020 | Education/Training, In the Garden
We are anticipating 90º-105º temperatures for the next 5-7 days! Here in New Mexico we have dry heat — meaning our actual temperature is high but because of the low humidity, around 10%, we can escape to the shade and feel like the temperature is 10-15º cooler....
by Barbara Dawson | Jun 11, 2020 | Food Preparation, In the Garden
About four weeks ago, Norm asked me what I thought about eliminating animal protein from our diet. I’ve been a vegetarian before and really didn’t miss meat for 15 years. So, naturally, I said “Sure!” I went to the garden this evening around 5:00 p.m. to see what was...
by Barbara Dawson | Jun 11, 2020 | Education/Training, In the Garden
This year, for the first time since we moved to the Village of Corrales, we found ticks on our dog! When I first saw them, I had no idea what they were. We let the chickens out to free range hoping they’d get rid of the ticks, scorpions, centipedes and other bugs, but...
