Now that we are home owners we decided to try gardening.
We tried a system of watering with homemade oiyas, It is a form of watering that originated from the Native Americans in this region. It is essentially glueing two terra-cotta pots together, plugging the bottom hole, burying it in the ground and then filling the pots through the hole in the top. We just fill them each day. The "lids" are just the terra-cotta saucers from the pots. The kids decided they wanted to paint the lids to add more color to our little garden.
Our little tomato plants quickly out grew their cages.
Our corn looked good in its early days, but didn't survive.
We learned that gardening in the desert is a constant battle. We had bugs and birds that we constantly fight for our tomatoes.
Bell Peppers do really well here if you can get them enough water.
We have learned that the labor of love in gardening here comes not from working with the bounty harvest and the hours to perserve it all. The labor is just trying to get a harvest.
After MANY months we finally figured out that we have to hand pollinate our zucchini plants. Here is one of only about 5 we actually harvested before the plants died.
Our aluminum streamers (aka pie tins painted and cut in spirals) have really helped out tomato plants as they seems to keep the birds away.
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