some nice sunsets.

sunset the other night:

mountains:
sunset last night:


market cooler:
preemie soft neck garlic
beets:
turnip:
used the cooler to plunge the spinach in before spinning it dry:
looked nice, we sold it all. and the beets (all five) and lettuce mix, only came home with two turnips..not too bad considering it rained all morning.
peas were for personal use only. maybe next saturday we'll have a bigger harvest, but i doubt it, a lot of the peas are just starting to flower and are really growing up tall along the fence.
more by next week for sure, hopefully sooner though.

we have some more random seeds to plant, and talk of a perennial herb garden behind the new clothesline which hasn't even been put up yet. Oh well...soon enough...until next blogging..
alex and becke from down on the Spotty Dog Farm

blessed with rains

rainbows are awesome!!
arugula is flowering, maybe self seeding?
arugula flower:
peas:

pea flower:
red leaf, very drought tolerant and apparently pretty resistant to hail damage:


red-leaf lettuce looking absolutely amazing:
these pickling cucumbers are gonna be tough as nails by the time they pull through:

super snap peas:
Bloomfield spinach rows:



beets:
purple and white turnips:
potato flowers:
should be able to harvest at least some fingerling potatoes sometime soon and then these plants will just keep going.



cucumber:
kale, as you can see these got a little thrashed by the hail, but as far as greens for cooking, it doesn't get much better than this.
spinach got some hail too:
tomato flower:



walla-walla onion:

tomatoes:


volunteer tomatillos self-seeded from last season(a pretty pleasant surprise):



Super Snap-Peas:
job security:
colorado russian mammoth sunflowers:



strawberry bush getting cozy this year, got to eat one yesterday, just wait 'till next season
not quite ready:
chinook clone from last year, just getting established out front this season.
fuggles from Jami's homebrew shop:
chinook
mint:
3 sisters:

pup:
H2O:
put up this sea-grass thing to look nicer
finally out of the living room!:
purple corn got a little thrashed from the hail the other day, but this happened to last year's sweet corn and it was fine



summer squash
legumes:
already knee high:
something dug a small burrow in the corn plot:
sealed!
amber-cup winter squash:
maize:
beans:
gourd plant, one also grew there last season, but with all the rain we've gotten so far this season, we will probably harvest a bunch of these little baseball sized decorative gourds..
native gourds:
oregano also making a comeback
flatleaf parsley coming back after we cut it back a month ago:
chinook hops flowering like crazy, should be a huge harvest just off this one plant
thyme:
cilantro:
NuMex green chiles and tomato transplants, still just a few trays inside
silvery fir tree:
sugar sweetie cherry tomato:
speckled roman sauce tomato, still selling these at the farmer's market
triple flower geranium:
silvery fir tree tomato:
happy aloe:
houndstooth aloe:
beet test harvest, we'll have some that are slightly for Saturday's market

life at the Spotty Dog Farm

our awesome geranium with three flowers going at once!

(no flash)
saw this little guy basking on the driveway a few days ago...went to get the camera, and he was already running away. first snake i've seen on the property since we moved here. glad it wasn't a huge rattler. can anyone identify it? if you click on the pictures they will enlarge
cactus blooms:



this one is probably around a hundred years old:


wildflowers...i hope the seed we planted (and never water) will add some more variety to the property and hopefully give us some great cut flowers to sell at market
mullen..second year growth. it will throw up a huge flower this summer.
sage flowers
it rained yeaterday. so hard and sideways that it came in under our front door. crazy huh?
hail hail hail

most plants seem to have suffered no damage but soon we need to support our leaning tomato plants. maybe today? probably nap

hail in my rain barrels
scene after the big storm yesterday:
main garden:


this was really the first big storm of the season.. nice taste of things to come

tella is a lucky girl. last sunday she cut her armpit on a nail head sticking out of the soon to be rebuilt stairs and giot a ton of stitches and hopefully a life lesson.you can see where they shaved her right arm for the IV and how she is keeping weight off her left front. we had to take her to the emergency animal clinic in town because in was $unday. oh well, she is feeling a lot better now that she has gotten the drainage tube out but i am still trying to get her to chill out and heal up.