"And God said, let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed after his kind, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good."-Moses
Spring is in the air and it's time to start planning the garden. Also time to start seeds indoors. We have started lots of flowers, herbs, and veggies this week including basil, thyme, sage, borage, four o'clocks, forget me nots, marigolds, hollyhocks, chiles, maters, and broccoli just to name a few. We get most of our seeds from a local Colorado seed bank called
Botanical Interests. They are an heirloom, open pollinated, non g.m.o. specialty seed source that has countless varieties of plants that do well at Colorado elevations and climes. We get all our chile seeds from
native seeds/s.e.a.r.c.h.. They are a seed bank specializing in native southwestern plants and heirloom varieties of the puebloan peoples and have several varieties of several crops that were collected at high altitude pueblos. Chile Alcalde and Chile Santo Domingo have worked well for us. Think global buy local.
The snows a meltin' quick 'round here. This first picture was taken on the 16th.
This one is on the 18th.
And today the 19th. This is the first daylight this field has seen since November.
Spent the day putting together the hoop house. This was acquired a couple years back when a local nursery went out of business and was just sitting in a shed in a pile. It took a couple days of puzzlin' and ponderin' to figure it out.
Admiring our handy work.
