I'm a retired educator (teacher/principal) who moved from Northern California to Payson, Arizona in September, 2010.
This blog will chronicle my adventures as I explore a different ecosystem and build my new home.

Sunday, June 24, 2012

Garden Update


This guy was at our fence at 4:00 in the afternoon.......eyeing our vegetables. Cooper started barking at him, of course.


He went on his merry way.......slowly......a young bull in search of some female companionship.


Lantana seems to be growing well in pots in the garden. Nothing has tried to eat it so far.


Randy put shade cloth on the tomato plants......we have had hot, dry weather. The temps have been in the high 90s with wind each day. (Not typical June weather.)


Our radish crop is very tasty and they are quite large.


This bed has carrots and turnips.


This bed has spaghetti squash, acorn squash and patty pan.


More tomatoes. The bed on the right has some llama poop in it and the tomatoes are not doing well. That confirms our suspicions that the llama poop is not good for tomatoes. Why? We don't know. We are going to replace the tomato plants with strawberries and see how they do.


The corn is growing well.......about 4 feet tall. Maybe we should have thinned this out a bit.....we will see.


Zucchini and cucumbers......we should get some in a few days.


Beets and chard.

Morning glories that we hope will grow along the fence.


A larger view of the garden space.


Randy puts on an overhead sprinkler a couple of times a day to keep the leaves moist. Everything is on either drip, spray or overhead watering.

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