Last year our little salsa garden was enough to grow a bunch of tomatoes and peppers and enough pumpkins to host a pumpkin party for all the relative's kids too. This year we cleaned out the cords of wood and junk that the previous property owners left on the edge of the property. We were able ...
Getting pepper seeds started (bhut jolokia, white habanero and medusa peppers)
I love spicy hot food and peppers look great once they bear fruit. I have been trying for a couple of years to find a nursery that carried medusa, ghost or white habanero peppers but no one ever does around here. After some research I found they can be pretty hard to get growing, have ...
Get your garden started!
If you have not started your garden there is still plenty of time. Here in the high desert we have some challenges with the climate that might make getting started a problem. Last year there were 3 frosts and a snow after I thought a week of 60-70 degree weather meant it was safe to ...
DIY Control4 sprinkler control
Lawn tending season is approaching and I have a little 4 zone system set up with the obligatory Orbit controller. However I want to have manual control over my sprinklers that is easier than trying to use the controller's manual mode. With this setup I'm able to keep the grass green and spray the neighbor's ...