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.
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