In just the past two weeks, the hummingbirds have suddenly made their summer appearance in my gardens. And they will be staing around until moving south in October. At first it was one bird and now there are 3 or 4 hanging out, sipping, fussing, and moving deliberately from flower to flower on their favorite [...]
Composting is the decomposition of once living things to make an excellent garden soil amendment. Dark and rich, it’s everything that the Santa Fe soil doesn’t have.
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The other morning took me by surprise. I woke up sneezing. And for several days more I continued sneezing. Even my new puppy was sneezing on a hike one afternoon. I was surprised for both of us because isn’t it supposed to be winter? But it seems the juniper trees are at it again, and [...]
With the short growing season of Northern New Mexico, Katherine O’ Brien, our nursery manager prefers planting potted roses rather than bare-root roses. With a mature root system, container roses will be well established in the garden by the time the ground freezes in the fall. Planting roses is as easy as planting other container [...]
There has been a tremendous interest in growing you own vegetables recently and this year it’s really taking off. And this is a really good trend. Why should we depend on corporate farming to grow most of our vegetables? Why should we truck all our vegetable across the country and back from huge vegetable growing [...]
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