Our Las Vegas Garden

05/25/2024

What a glorious May! Here comes June!
I’m spending a few days checking and repairing any irrigation leaks, picking strawberries, cutting runners and getting ready for the heat.
Mixing up some strawberry jalapeño “Backyard Jam” and finally some lunch with our heirloom tomatoes & fresh garden basil
Happy memorial weekend all!

05/14/2024

It’s almost tomato season!
First heirloom of 24!
Cherokee purple, greenhouse grown!
It’s been a beautiful spring! here comes summer!

05/12/2024

More strawberries, just can’t get over how great this bed turned out this year!

05/09/2024

What a difference a month makes,
First year that I have been successful with the strawberries. A little extra TLC and some agrabon have done wonders

03/29/2024

Springtime!

03/29/2024

Spring! Everything is planted, maybe a few more loofa this year

02/27/2024

First tray of tomatoes,summer squash, zucchini and some Loofa into the greenhouse for a week of hardening.
Basil in, with wood chip mulch.

02/27/2024

What do you use to detour the birds on your strawberry beds, short of covering them?
KP painted some stones and started putting up some flash tape. Suggestions ?

02/19/2024

What a beautiful day to be in the gardens.
Thanks to KP for the help planting all the strawberries. We have dedicated 4’x25’ to be the home to 150 new starts.

02/13/2024

I’m down to the last couple of beds I’m ready for March and all the spring planting

02/01/2024

February 1st, spring/summer seeds planted.
Gong to be a small season of “what we like to eat” Heirloom, San Marzano & Roma tomatoes, 4-8 jalapeño, summer squash, zucchini, pickling cucumbers, eggplant and loofah. Happy gardening!

02/01/2024

Elm roots….
When I did the landscaping on my property in 2005 I really thought that lace barkElm trees were beautiful.
Let me tell you! They are a gardeners nightmare. They are extremely invasive.
This elm tree was 30’ from this root ball and it continued the length of the entire bed stripping the soil of nutrients and moisture.
So just a friendly warning, elm trees and gardening do not go hand in hand.

01/01/2024

Happy New year!

12/26/2023

Las Vegas Desert Secret Garden
Thank you for the starts! Everybody is doing great and it looks like a great spring crop is on the way.
Big cabbage, boc Choi, broccoli broccolini Swiss chard and Kale.
happy new year!

12/26/2023

Fertilizer injectors
A few people have asked how I feed my gardens with the ground cover/ Mylar mulch that I use to cover the beds.
This is my set up for the gardens.
First I only use this for supplemental feeding as I try to amend my beds with blood meal bone meal, cotton seed meal, kelp and some worm castings before we cover the beds and start planting. ( I put a few grains of mycos in each hole while planting.)
The beds don’t really need feeding until they really start growing and begin to fruit.
This is when I use my injector.
MSU, makes some great water soluble blends that will dork great. I use the RO vineyard blend with both higher N and K.
I’ll throw up some pictures and hope that it helps you all, build a system of your own.

11/26/2023

Keeping the new babies warm tonight ….. just in case

11/22/2023

Planting some winter veggies this morning
Thanks for the starts from Erminia at Las Vegas secret garden
In September the Beds were turned and covered after amending with blood meal bone meal, cottonseed meal, worm castings and kelp.
Boc Choi, broccoli, broccolini kale and Swiss chard.
I’m coverthese babies with some agrobon and I might even add some old school Christmas lights if we get to chilly these next couple of months

07/05/2023

Loofa, this is my first year growing and training loofa to grow in the greenhouse. Looks like I’m just days away from my first flowers.

07/05/2023

I understand what Leslie has always called it a “test garden”. First year growing Pickering cucumbers in the greenhouse.

06/05/2023

06/05/2023

Special shout out to Green Life Produce who grew these beautiful heirloom tomatoes ( mine are just coming in).
Basil from the gardens, salt & pepper, olive oil and balsamic vinegar. Yummy!

05/21/2023

Zucchini tomatoes cucumbers and some sunflowers 5/21/23

04/02/2023

Good morning, does anyone need a lawnmower? Toro recycler, one pull.
Comes with a Scott’s fertilizer spreader and a half bag of w**d and feed.
Sahara& jones area $100
Pm me for pick up details

04/01/2023

“Attracting pollinators”
This spring I’m letting a few of the winter crop go to flower. The bees are everywhere!

03/08/2023

March 8th 2023.
Looks like some warm days this week

03/04/2023

First Cherokee & Black Krim tomatoes into the greenhouse. 3/4/23

02/28/2023

Today we dug out the asparagus bed. The lace bar elm trees ( with their spider roots) had overtaken the bed. So….
John, removed all the crowns, filled 3, 35 gallon trash cans with roots then All the soil came out. We put down a thick liner, added 2 rows of fresh soil, placed all the crowns, amended soil with blood mean, bone meal, cottonseed meal, kelp and warm castings.
Filled everything back in. I’m going to cover this bed with medium mulch to try and preserve the moisture this year.

02/19/2023

Sweet peas planted 2/19/23