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Category Archives: Garden

Free Strawberries!

I was out in the garden cleaning up the strawberry patch today. I replanted the shoots, cultivated and fertilized and as it turns out I have a surplus of shoots, even after expanding my patch to 3 rows from two. If anybody wants strawberries for their garden I have about 30 or 40 [...]

Friend or Foe?

I think he’s just a big old horse fly, but he sure was big.

Nature never gives up

Ok, so night time isn’t the best time to take pictures of the garden, but that’s when I had a moment.  Like many of my friends I have been fighting with squash bugs and hornworms and poor soil and weeds and all the general garden woes plus the extra annoying New Mexico garden woes as [...]

Sunflowers

This is as tall as our sunflowers got last year.  We had a few along the wall to add some color and peek over the fence.  This year we didn’t plant any but when I tilled the old plants under the seeds spread throughout the garden of course.
This year one of them came up especially [...]