Zucchini — males, females and pollination
In a permaculture garden are likely plenty of insects to pollinate the female flowers. However, you need both male and female flowers and if you don’t have enough insects, you can hand pollinate.
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Peaches, pomegranates, tomatillos, so much food and more rain
It’s unreal how fantastic the weather has been this summer. I only got about 10 drops...
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Getting ready to plant drought tolerant trees at the new lots
It’s time to plan for fall planting of drought-tolerant bushes and trees. Desert Mimosa, Yellow Bird of Paradise, Desert Willows, Catsclaw, Mesquite, Palo Verde, Arizona Cypress …
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Extremely drought tolerant desert Mimosa
When we had practically no rain for a couple of years, the desert mimosas fared extremely well. I...
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June garden pictures
My garden on June 5, 2022. The best part about permaculture is that once established, many plants turn into weeds and instead of planting seeds, you just pull or cut what you don’t want.
Read MoreArtist’s depiction of my place
A neighbor came by for some salad and gave me this lovely drawing.
Read MoreBees and hummingbird moths love the plum and nectarine flowers
After a cold and windy spring, we just had the first couple WARM days. I love watching and listening to the insects pollinating the fruit trees. So many insects pollinated the plum tree:...
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Fruit tree pruning in the high desert
When to prune fruit trees in the high desert? Light pruning in summer is ok.
Read MoreMisfits Market and many complaints — AVOID!
Someone recommended Misfits Market in a local FaceBook group and of course, I was excited to find another option to get organic produce for our very remote desert town. https://www.misfitsmarket.com/ Unfortunately, they’re...
Read MoreApricots and tomatoes
We overwintered several of the Peacevine tomatoes growing in hydro tubs in the winter greenhouse. SUCCESS! They made it without any supplemental heating, being 6 ft in the ground (walapini) kept the winter greenhouse from...
Read MoreTransplanting Mormon Tea to the new pond
Last spring we finally got the little pond set up and today my helper transplanted a bunch of Mormon Tea from the bottom of our rock pile where they were about to be covered by rocks and caliche. Next we’ll transplant some...
Read MoreAnyone growing Lion’s Mane mushrooms?
I have a visitor very much into mushrooms and we’re definitely going to grow several varieties. Unfortunately, our high desert dry hot / cold climate is not at all suitable for portobello mushrooms, love those as meat...
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