Showing posts with label Pines. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pines. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Pics

I've been meaning to get over here and get some blogging done:)



I frightened a mama quail off her nest when I was weeding a few days ago.  Unfortunately, she did not return so I got this picture of her nest. with eggs.





This is the "pine grove" area of the yard.  The purple flowers are pennstemmons.  There are sonme wild roses in this area, as well.

Friday, December 30, 2011

Winter Watering

Sure, a lot of you out there don't worry one bit about watering your stuff in the winter.  I bet you have had snow or rain, too.  Watering in the winter is really important out here in our desert.  We have had literally no precipitation from snow or rain since early October.  What's a garden to do?

I managed to water a fair amount until around Thanksgiving but it has been tough since then.  That is over 4 weeks of barely getting any water on the garden.

I managed to water these last few days but the East Side Windbreak is giving me fits.  There are some ice chunks in there since some of the tubing is buried and they don't want to melt.  The cloud cover hasn't helped me a bit.  The place hasn't gone below freezing overnight for the third night in a row.  Yahoo!!!  In fact it was 36 degrees at dawn.  This is my third day of trying to water the East Side.  Looks like the water is flowing through the irrigation tubing with a few minor problems that are ironing themselves out as the morning progresses.  I am going to leave the water on for at least four hours.