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Category Archives: gardening
Plants for the Desert Southwest
This Sunday, June 10, is the Corrales (New Mexico) Garden Tour, which runs from 9 am to 4 pm. Come on out to the historic village for a great opportunity to see what can be grown in our dry desert … Continue reading
Posted in Albuquerque, Chocolate, Desert life, gardening, New Mexico
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Murder Most Foul
Today, on the very day that my Cyber Monday purchase–two gopher traps–shipped, I find my nemesis in the yard, D.E.A.D, dead. Yes, ding-dong, the wicked rodent’s dead. Friends know that as a rule, my garden is a welcoming place to … Continue reading
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Baby Quails, Ahoy!
Location, location, location. Perhaps that’s what a quail thought when she decided to make her nest under a rock in the rock garden. Maybe it was the sturdy construction, or the lovely view, but something must have canceled out the … Continue reading
Posted in Desert life, gardening, New Mexico
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Just Add Ranch Dressing
Lettuce. Not just for salads anymore. I haven’t done much container gardening until recently. Possibly because, indoors, I have a brown thumb and consequently, I associate any kind of container gardening with death. In the last couple of years, I’ve … Continue reading
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Desert Garden in May
Life’s a beach. Of sorts. Casa de Kirby sits in the midst of a vast sandy desert. Lots of sand and sagebrush. No rain. No large body of water, unless you count the Rio Grande, which, nowadays, isn’t so grande. … Continue reading
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Step One, Dig a Hole
Gardeners bury their mistakes. Whenever I talk about gardening, there is always someone who is quick to say, “I can’t grow anything; I have a brown thumb.” Now, I recognize that this may be an attempt to shut me up. … Continue reading
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Brother, Can You Spare a Zucchini?
In which the Casa de Kirby is struck by a case of “careful what you wish for.” Rewind several months, back to March, when a young, uh, youngish, erm, what-ever, gardener’s heart warms after the winter that would not end. … Continue reading
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