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An elevation like that is bound to be as challenging as growing in the desert at 2500 feet. I'm having a lot of trouble with bunnies this year also. Most everything is protected with chicken wire but their are ways they find to get in. I don't know if our coyotes are still around or if they...

Hi barkerchickens, your garden sounds fabulous. We'll have to get together sometime and compare gardens. We're not much into the hot peppers but we did grow radishes and we have green bell peppers. Do you have chickens too? I have nine hens and get about 6-8 eggs a day. I also have a rooster...

Hi barkerchickens!:frow hi to citychicken also! :frow That sun is tough on plants for sure. I use shade cloth over mine and it helps a lot. I have it over my chicken pen and aviary also. The birds and chickens appreciate it I'm sure. What do you have planted in Hesperia? We picked the last...

All my veggies are planted. We're eating red potatoes, carrots, peas, and we have 2" fruits on the zucchini and yellow summer squash. All my tomatoes have fruit on them and I planted some cantaloupe and watermelon seedlings. Now I'm putting in flower plants like salvia and day lilies and...

I think I have the biggest challenge of all. I garden in the desert. I've found that just about anything will grow her that is for our zone 8b as long as we amend the soil and give it water. We have 2.5 acres but we've planted 75 trees...palo verde, fruitless mulberry, locust, mesquire...

oultry and gardens are my favorite hobbies also but I must add quilting, crocheting and knitting to the list also. I do things in the summer that I can't do in the winter and vice versa. My chickens have to be in a pen so they don't bother my garden. It's the bunnies and ground squirrels that...

CA is sure getting weird weather this year. I dread what kind of summer we'll get here in the high desert. My tomatoes are coming along. We're eating radishes, red potatoes and green peas. I think I'll pick some greens for tomorrow. The turnip and mustard are ready. There are big fat...

I just realized that I'm known by baustin over at BYC. I like this website for gardening info. I have a garden, even in the desert. Besides my love of roses and bearded iris I have all kinds of plants that are drought tolerant and grow in this region. We get cold winters, below freezing and...

I think boycotting AZ is stupid. If the Feds won't do something about illegal immigration then it's up to the states to do it. I believe that you don't say something bad about something being done until you walk in their shoes. I'm an American citizen by choice not by birth but my mother and...

Good for you! I'm with you, gardening keeps you young. I'm 70 and my children don't see how I do what I do. I also garden but I do it in the high desert.

They work. I'd lose a lot of things if I didn't protect them until they harden up and can tolerate our desert weather.

The best I've come up with for now is to cut the bottoms out of the pots plants come in when you buy them and place them over the vulnerable plants like a high collar. They still get the sun but the wind doesn't cut them so bad. The pots are partially buried so they stay in place. My tomato...

We ate our first peas out of the garden tonight. The rest of our veggie's are doing great. I still put cover over the tomatoes if it's going to be windy because the wind just tears everything up. We get a lot of wind here in the desert. Monday we had wind gust to 70mph and my lovely Honey...

I hear you.....I am from BYC also.

I think I've planted all the veggies I'm going to. We have carrots, onions, peas, pole beans,mustard and turnip seed, cucumbers, zucchini, yellow summer squash, and acorn squash , bell peppers and tomatoes. I have planted roses this year and agave, red salvia, petunias, dahlias, and I still...

We thought spring was here in the desert. We planted peas, carrots, onions and red potatoes and beans. All are up but the beans. Oh! I planted cantaloupe and cucumbers but did them in peat pots to give them a head staert. It's good thing we did....we had a winter storm Wed. but all we got...

The warnings are down for our area except for wind.......the ever present wind. That's all right, I have a top over my tomatoes in the raised bed so I am prepared either way. We planted green beans yesterday and Wednesday we plan to plant zucchini, yellow summer squash and then cantaloupe...

I thought it was spring here in the high desert but the weather people have issued a warning for next week for snow levels to drop to 2500 feet which of course means temp levels will drop. That's the desert for you.

Hi Jen, I'm in the high desert in CA and it's spring here but as usual when it's warm enough to garden we get the wind. It just sucks the life out of new plants unless you cover them. My tomatoes are under pots that I cut the bottoms off and cover the plants with. They really work nice but I...