Category: Food we grow

Zucchini — males, females and pollination

by Christine | Oct 10, 2022 | Food we grow, The gardens | 2

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.

Peaches, pomegranates, tomatillos, so much food and more rain

by Christine | Oct 3, 2022 | Food we grow | 0

It’s unreal how fantastic the weather has been this summer. I only got about 10 drops...

Fruit tree pruning in the high desert

by Christine | Jan 20, 2022 | Food we grow, Fruit Trees | 0

When to prune fruit trees in the high desert? Light pruning in summer is ok.

Apricots and tomatoes

by Christine | Jun 21, 2021 | Fruit Trees | 0

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...

Giant melon and wonderful dinners

by Christine | Oct 2, 2016 | Food we grow | 2

The other day we were cleaning up in the orchard, cutting back and taking out plants that were killed off by the hail. Lost one of my Armenian cucumber plants and had to harvest damaged veggies. One of my helpers was pulling on...

Another fruit tree & berry order coming up!

by Christine | Oct 1, 2016 | Fruit Trees | 0

Please look at my post from spring for details. I will probably submit my order late next week and I will update here in another post with more details.

Various squash and Armenian cucumbers for sale

by Christine | Aug 10, 2016 | Food we grow | 0

All that rain last week really made everything grow like crazy! We’ve been eating the occasional Armenian cucumber and Black Beauty and Yellow Crookneck squash, but the last few days I got to harvest way more than we can...

The first Armenian cucumber

by Christine | Jul 21, 2016 | Food we grow | 0

FINALLY! It didn’t even see it growing since the plants aren’t staked (yet) and all of a sudden there it was: A friend just asked me what Armenian cucumbers look like and I put the letter sized catalog next to it for...

Wakimoto Farms corn is genetically modified

by Christine | Jun 30, 2016 | Food Safety - GM Food, Food we grow, Our poisoned food supply | 2

I was planning an outing to the Wakimoto Farms for the High Desert Gardening Club and had called earlier to confirm the hours posted at the website, but forgot to ask the million dollar question: Is the corn GMO? So I just...

How to plant fruit trees

by Christine | Feb 12, 2016 | Food we grow, Fruit Trees | 0

In our new orchard we followed the traditional advice to dig DEEP and LARGE holes. Just as we spent MEGA BUCKS (about $100/hole) getting these holes dug and buying Kellogg Amend by the pallet (for a 50/50 mix), I find that the...

WHERE to plant the fruit trees?

by Christine | Feb 10, 2016 | Food we grow, Fruit Trees | 3

I posted our 25 fruit and nut trees along with their descriptions and they are scheduled to arrive next week. In my experience, most problems are caused by either WEATHER or CRITTERS. We hope to eventually cover the entire...

Updated list of trees still available to add to our fruit tree order

by Christine | Feb 3, 2016 | Food we grow, Fruit Trees | 2

I just went through my spreadsheet with the listing of trees I considered ordering a week ago and updated availability. They’re going fast! I did not add any trees to my list with: Rootstock I didn’t care for such as...