High Desert Organic Gardeners

HiDOG of Silver City & Grant County New Mexico

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Gaia's Garden Wisdom

Beltane is the Wiccan Spring holiday. It is celebrated the eve of May 1 and was a raucous all night party with bonfires and lots of mead.  In most of the temperate zone this is much closer to true spring that the official Mar 21st date.  Please accept my apology for being late with this post. But this is a very busy time of the year in the garden. In the last two weeks I've planted tomatoes, peppers and eggplant and also two kinds of basal and other herbs. Then there are the flowers that are still not all planted. We have also added three new dwarf fruit trees and a strawberry tower.  Our aim this year is to eat locally and grow as much of our own food as possible. We buy the rest at the Farmers Market which is now open.

  Blessings, Basira Nickle

For more information about planting times click on the Planting Times link on the left.

HiDOG addresses the unique challenges of sustainable organic gardening/farming in the high desert mountains (6,000+ ft.) of Southwest New Mexico.

We are a loose group of area gardeners, beginners to masters, sharing knowledge, tips and tricks related to organically growing summer and winter food crops and the storage and distribution of home grown produce.

Possible topics for public workshops are "Building a Solar Drier", "Building a Cold Frame", "shareing tools, produce, seeds" and "Composting". To suggest other workshop topics post to the HiDog section of the community forum: HiDOG Forum.

Occasionally the Gardening Group will send eMail announcing meetings and workshops etc. Sign up at left.

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