Summer Desert Food Gardening

Summer Desert Food Gardening, Cont’d.
Brenda Barnes, President, Home Grown Food Network, Inc.
June 29, 2008
This morning I went out to sing to the tomatoes, peppers, herbs, grapes, and mango trees. I took new pictures I’m attaching. There are three mango trees growing now, so I’ll research how big they grow, and whether we need [...]

Easy, Free, Perennial Desert Tomatoes (and People) in Summer

June 22, 2008
Brenda Barnes, President, Home Grown Food Network, Inc.
According to the calendar, yesterday was the first day of Summer. On a news show I heard them say don’t tell that to people in Southern California, who’ve been sweltering through a heat wave for two weeks. Here inland in Southern California, it’s worse. [...]

Easy, Free Perennial (and Salmonella-Free) Desert Tomatoes in Early Summer

Brenda Barnes, President, Home Grown Food Network, Inc.
For the last two weeks Peter and I have had tomatoes from our garden four or five times a day. It’s actually amazing how many tomatoes we’ve had. It’s also totally wonderful.
We eat them just plain sliced, cubed and diced, or whole, alongside everything [...]

Moon gardening

A long time ago in Spiddal, Co. Galway, Ireland, my granny took the trouble to explain to me how the moon was very important when planting, She always looked very busy in her garden-after all she was growing food for her family, as well as making butter, cheese and the most wonderful bread [...]

garden in a recycled bottle

As we are so bewitched by our wonderful fence panel made from recycled wine bottles I thought it would be fun to research what other ways I might use bottles in our garden. How about this- put a garden in a bottle!
A bottle can be recycled to function as a miniature greenhouse. Here’s how. (originally [...]

Easy, Free Perennial Desert Tomatoes, Peppers, Potatoes and Other Foods in Early Summer

June 7, 2008
Brenda Barnes, President, Home Grown Food Network, Inc.
This morning I went out early to sing to the tomatoes and rest of the perennial food garden. This is the garden we determined to experiment with, to see what perennial food plants would grow in the desert with no work, from just putting free [...]