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  • From: "Wayne" <wa2yne@gmail.com>
  • To: "Healthy soil and sustainable growing" <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] winter and spring vegetables?
  • Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2007 13:05:38 -0600

Just ran across this going through old emails.
Had forgotten to reply.
I'm not sure when last frost date is around here, maybe late February or sometime in March.
Elevation around 2500 feet, soil kinda sandy, gets hard as a rock, almost, when it dries.
Needs amending, don't have much grass for clippings, and what I did have had too much mesquite chunks in it.
Not sure about the PH here, but pouring a bit of vinegar on it makes it fizzle quite a bit, so on the alkaline side.

I need to get some garden started, have to protect it from the critters here.
I transplanted one small tree, with leaves, and something ate the leaves, might have been the rabbits, tons of those here.
Now we're starting to get warm days, and cool nights but above freezing, I really should get something started, but protected from rabbits, gophers (at least I think that's what they are) and other small critters.
I'll have to go through my seeds and see just what I have, and hope to get some of the older seeds to sprout. Doesn't hurt to try em.
I've had fair results with older tomato seeds, though some I tried last year waited till I used the dirt for something else
Have some assorted lettuce seeds, some bought last fall, some rather old, but won't hurt to try anyway....

Wayne WA2YNE
www.desert-rat.com

----- Original Message ----- From: "Laura McKenzie" <laurabrownmckenzie@worldnet.att.net>
To: "Healthy soil and sustainable growing" <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2006 7:38 PM
Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] winter and spring vegetables?


Wayne, I had no trouble with growing spinach when I lived west of
Albuquerque. I didn't grow it in the fall there though. I did add lots and
lots of organic matter in the form of composted brush (from my M-I-L's home
in Corrales), leaves and grass clippings to those gardens. I started with
ground that was nothing but pure sand and caliche about 24 inches below the
sand. I never tested the pH there.

Don't you get pretty late frosts in the spring? We had frosts as late as
Mother's Day where we lived. Your tomatoes are going to need a lot of sun
for a long time.






  • Re: [Livingontheland] winter and spring vegetables?, Wayne, 02/07/2007

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