Traveled to rio rancho many times over the past few years for work. That cold wind just cuts right through the you
I just woke up and it's 38 degrees out. It will hit near freezing or freezing by end of year and in January.
Not flagstone, vesicular basalt local tothetribes
I don't know that the type of stone matters as long as it covers the ground, inhibits evaporation and doesn't leach anything nasty, but of course they use what's laying around.
Oh my friend the type of stone totally matters! In addition to the slope of the field. Flag stone doesn't work as well because it's brown, a light color that doesn't heat up as fast as the black basalt. Flag stone is a sedimentary rock as opposed to vesicular basalt which is an igneous metamorphic rock, its black rapidly cooled magma basically, with tons of tiny air pockets throughout. So what happens when the sun rises here in NM the moisture in the night air condenses on these rocks that stay colder longer than anything else around and conveniently have tons of holes in them to catch all kinds of water! Fucking genius really
That's great stuff! However, I don't see ancient peoples or modern ones profitably moving rocks hundreds of miles to do this with. I could be wrong?
Thanks! Everything has been pulled except jalapeño and banana peps. The banana peps are fruiting like crazy. Lost the pablano due to cold temps. Will do one last harvest of banana peps and jalapeños then pull everything and amend the soil and get some garlic and onions in the ground.
Mmmm my onions blow. Iv heard to grow them in clay! i had ghost, reapers, and scorpian peppers this past season and pulled about two dozen off. The rest got frost bitten... o no. I found that using insect netting i could prevent the frost on my tender greens and cabbagey stuff. Im thinking about trying autoflowers under the net through February as well. Ill see how it goes. Growing any cacti?
Nah these gardens are typically within .5 miles of an outcropping of vesicular basalt, usually a cliff also providing cover.
Those teeny thorns are some bitches. Tastey fruits though. I didn't realize they'd have seeds when i tried them.
Just how edible is up for debate... some locals burn off the thorns and munch the fruits, but once you get a mouthful of those dusty little spines you hardly ever go back. Downright miserable. I throw those fuckers through a juicer and make prickly pear mead. Turns out blood red and tastes like a fruity deep red wine.
Rio Rico right smack near the border
