The Salad Bars

My salad bars are 3" pvc with a drain hole in the bottom of one end. These were planted at the end of Oct. Now, with the sun rising higher they are really starting to grow. These are not hydroponic, just the soil I make here.



After the picking -


The 09" gourd crop from " Peggy Chapman's Garden ", on Buddy Holly Ave.

Sharing the corn

I kept one ear of the blue corn for seed and put the rest out for the wild critters. It is 5 degrees out and this young squirrel has found the corn and is chowing down.

Snow in Las Cruces

Snow Bologna

Christmas Eve 2009

The BIG Snow

First we got an inch of rain and then we got this -




After a little scrapping, the sun started to peak back in.
I went back into the greenhouse in September, after stopping for the summer. This is my second winter since Larry helped me rebuild her. In addition to the salad stuff, I have jade cuttings , airplane plants, Dutch irises, lilies, aloes, and my brave little Norfork pine.
All of it is growing just off the sunlight . No extra heat at all. We have already seen nearly a week solid, of cloudy weather with back to back 13 F degree nights in that spell. That's when my irises were starting to sprout.

The Winter Solstice - 2009

I got a package of seeds for Christmas, from Las Cruces, New Mexico . Thank Bart & Blonde.
I'll start these in the greenhouse tomorrow.


I started my " salad bars " at the end of October. The first cuttings were in the chicken salad tonight. pictures to follow. My greenhouse is going a super job this fall.
Salad Bars

" One Good Meal a Week "

Tomorrow's Chicken and Rice soup -

When I was a very young man in Austin, in the spring of 69' a girl named Susann cooked spaghetti once a week for people from Lubbock. Some Mondays she had 20 people in her place. We'd all kick in a few bucks for the next week's food, and we all had at least " One Good Meal a Week " . I can still hear the " Nazz " on the record player.

There's something about people breaking bread together.