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Our garden is on the northside, but here in the desert, it is SUNNY and HOT everywhere. We have a small strip of shade along the house where the patio us...the rest of our yard is full sun. :rolleyes:

We have 28 hens and 1 rooster (who keeps himself busy...we recently set eggs and had an 80+% hatch rate! Pretty good for one roo!). We currently have 12 chicks...11 are ~2 wks old and one that is 1 weeks old. I am considering keeping a roo from the batch of chicks, but we'll see. The 10 week...

We just pulled the last of our onions and garlic. Over the winter we had cabbage, spinach, mesclun lettuce mix, swiss and rainbow chard, carrots (didn't do as well), broccoli, and several other in the brassica family. Our summer garden is being started late as we had some late frosts this...

Hi DesertWillow!! :frow If you hadn't mentioned your Baustin on BYC, I wouldn't have realized it was you!! I finally signed up over here after a long while of wanting to get around to it! We're looking at building a lattice style shade structure over our garden this year. Our poor veggies get...

We have used the shade cloth before...our problem is that we are in a high wind area. We can get gusts up to 70 mph with 50+ mph winds being common several times a year. The shade cloth wouldn't last more than year at most. We need something more permanent (wind resistant). That's why we...

Hi all!! :frow I am new to this forum, but am a member of BYC and Sufficient Self. DH and I live in the high desert of southern California. Our summers are intense to say the least. We get sun with mostly clear skies nearly every day from sun up to sundown. Our veggies get cooked. I know...