Come the first week in January, I am ready to play in the dirt, but it is too cold so figured ot how to do it indoors.
We had our only real snow 10 days ago, snowed like crazy all morning and an inch of it stuck.
The old timers told me to always expect a freeze in Arizona, the month that Easter falls in and 38 years of life here, has proven them right.
It also rains on July 4th week.
See if you can find this book on greenhouses, it is for poor people to grow food in, not the fancy ones we used in California to grow Orchids in, of course they would grow in it.
It is the only thing that President Carter did right, there was a fund in the beginning to build the greenhouses for people, but my husband built mine.
The food and heat producing Solar Greenhouse
Design construction operation
By:
Rick Fisher and Bill Yanda
ISBN 0-912528-12-5
1976 & 1977
Published by:
John Muir Publications
PO Box 613
Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501
And it is still for sale, and resale: [you may be able to read it on line.]
All your comments about Arizona are making me a little homesick. I lived in Phoenix for 20 years before moving over here to Fresno. My dad grew up here and always bragged that you could grow anything in this valley. It’s true! It’s like living in a gigantic garden with all the vineyards and orchards. Even Fresno State U has a full square mile of farms right in the middle of town, and you can buy school-grown food over at the farm store. They have the best sausage, “slim-jim” wannabes and ice cream!
We’re soon going to be moving back to our mobile home in the foothills where it’s so dark you can see every star in the sky and you can hear the coyotes and owls, and watch the bluebirds and scrub jays flit from tree to ground. And the gambrel quails will run across the ground and in the spring their adorable babies will follow them in a queue. And Fresno is just down the hill.
I can’t wait to move back. The park owner has rules about growing stuff but we are hoping he’ll give us a small waiver if we don’t use any more water than we normally do. If not, we can do container gardening and grow herbs. Let me know if you want to see pictures of the park.