The Desert Has No Way of Making Holes Easy to Dig
You work a physically demanding day job. What do you like to do on your day off? Me, I like to dig. Not really. I prefer playing board games and drinking mulled wine. But. The pickles demand my days...
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If It Were Easy…
…I wouldn’t bother. I also wouldn’t get so maddeningly frustrated. I feel like I should hug a farmer. Or kiss a gardener. Or shake hands with the guy in NYC who grows basil on his high rise balcony. I...
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Thinking Like a Juniper
Pollen cones on a male Juniper This is what the Juniper trees are doing right now. On about a third of the trees (the male ones) all the tips are turning this rust orange color and when the wind blows...
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Oh Yes I Wish It Would Rain Down, Down On Me
This is how the garden bed is watered. Plus also, my face and camera in the reflection. The hole we dug with gentlemanly brawn and will of personal spirt has been filled (half way) with an amalgam of...
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My So Called Row Cover
Mad Beets, Y’all! This Friday will mark the last installment of the excellent “Gardening in the Desert” class I’m taking over at Santa Fe Community College. Erin O’Neill is the super knowledgeable,...
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You May Tell Yourself, This Is Not My Beautiful State
But it is. This is New Mexico. When I think about it, when you think about it, when most anyone thinks about it, they picture New Mexico as a dry desert–beautiful in its sparseness, yes, but “verdant”...
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All These Things That I’ve Grown
Through the mysterious magic of the voodoo that is growing things, I somehow managed to make a weird, triangle-shaped seed turn into spinach that comes out of the ground. I stood back in satisfied...
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Do You Feel Like Swimming? (Yes, Right Now)
I did everything right. I did everything wrong. Brad Lancaster says to watch the flow of your land. See where the water moves. Build earthworks to catch the water. I did those things. I situated the...
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Slow Death by Curly Top Virus
Before the plant fully succumbed to CTV, it was able to make a few tomatoes. Tomatoes that never got et. Poor guys. What is Curly Top Virus? Is it when my cousin David got a perm in the 80s? No, that...
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Beans Don’t Burn on the Grill
What’s with the radio silence here at SRB? Stuff. Big stuff, my lovelies. The sort of stuff you don’t really want to talk about until it’s good as done. And now that this double stuffed Oreo is nigh on...
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