My friend Suzy asked me to take some pictures so she could make a poster for Farmer’s Market.
There was a hard frost just last week–the farm is at 8200 feet– and these lettuces are covered every cold night.
The lettuces are in the new garden, surrounding the house. And there are lots of old gardens.
Here’s another garden of perhaps a dozen total. It’s a miracle anyone survives planting season.
This is the irrigation ditch, with a garden to the right.
This is the solar greenhouse, with a small garden in front of it,
and this is the workshop. Those barrels are so stuffed with pansies because she harvests them for salad mix.
Having so many gardens makes it harder for the pests to zero in on a crop. Which is lucky, because she has gophers. Bob has extreme prejudice against gophers, who can settle in and undermine gardens. He poisons them.
He asked, what do you do about the gophers?
She said: I tell them, Go away, Gophers. I say, Shoo.
Suzy has a very nice operation going on there….does she have a poblem with deer too? Couldn’t tell if that was deer fencing aound the lettuce.
Her entire property is fenced, and then her house garden is fenced as well.
So does “Go away, gophers.” and “Shoo” work? Made me laugh though.
BTW, I thoroughly enjoyed the post about the OLd Mines. Really interesting, and made me realize that no matter where you live, there is always some issue that is complicated to figure out a good solution.
thanks for sharing the pictures - quite amusing.