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It's supposed to get down to 7 F tonight in the nearest town, so if the pattern continues it will be around -3 here. I seem to run 10 degrees cooler. I have the water running and a heater in front of the furnace so it doesn't have to work as hard to maintain the house temperature. I brought in...

Got the trays back in the hydroponics. Fishies survived the winter, so this will be the first full season test. Last year I found that spinach does well in the cold ground, but not in cold water. Cilantro does better in cold water. Lettuce is about equal. So I'll plant lettuce, cilantro and...

There are actually 5 seasons. Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter, and Mud.

Not Utah, the Salt Lake "spaghetti bowl" doesn't have houses under it and most of it is at least 3 lanes.

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Every time I see this chicken I have to sing the "Waddle Waddle" song. It's a reflex. "Waddle, waddle, and she waddles away."

I went outside to plant fava beans, so I took the wild-patch watermelon seeds with me, got them in the ground, walked to the garage to get a shovel to dig clay to make more seed starting mix, fed the fish, walked out without the shovel, went to collect eggs, got the shovel, back to the garage to...

I have about 3 dozen of those. They tend to blow off in our winds here, but they work very well as mini greenhouses if they stay in place. The bottoms also work as saucers to go under plants.

So get some short season beans and plant them a week or two earlier. At the worst, you're out a few seeds.

Which is why I'm doing drought tolerance adaptation on EVERYTHING I grow. If you have a long season, consider spring and fall as your primary planting times. Last year I discovered that if dry beans are planted early they grow and fruit during the spring and early summer when there is still...

So that bottom picture -- is that so you can remember the day of the week? :lau

All the plum seedlings died. I have 1 survivor from the second set. My baby peach trees (two years old) are absolutely thriving; far more new growth on them this year than the grafted trees. The baby apricots are doing great but not as great as the peaches. The dry garden survivors got...

I trimmed peaches, apricots and grapes yesterday. I'm afraid most of my grapes are dead. Again. My baby peach trees (two years old) are absolutely thriving; far more new growth on them this year than the grafted trees. The baby apricots are doing great but not as great as the peaches. The...

-12 and 8 F (-24 and -13 C). The widest gap yet.

This morning 1 and 17.

Everything except parsley and sage have sprouted. I need to mix up some more soil and start the next set of perennials. I hope my oregano survived the cold, because I can't find my oregano seeds. Licorice should seed this year.

I have some gallon jugs flled with water, but that's all at the moment. My first greenhouse was designed for the location. No need to go into a lot of detail, but it backed on a hill and I assumed the difference between my own measurements and the traditional greenhouses was because of that...

According to my thermometers, -4 and 9. It's following the same pattern as my first greenhouse. I am now curious to see some real temperatures from a traditional passive greenhouse. Everything I have been told is being contradicted by my experience. Not really unexpected, but I'd still like...