Arid Agriculture

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Date	Type	Title/Summary
07/28/2024	Farm Log	What is worth the space, water and effort? Most of my corn has been destroyed by bugs and worms. It takes a lot of water to grow corn. You might get three or four ears and that's the end of it. You get a lot of mulchable bio-material, but if you're going to grow something with this...
06/28/2024	Farm Log	A slow rainy day With the monsoon rains and additional heat, everything is growing. This weekend I will soak the cactus as much as possible.
05/26/2024	Farm Log	South bound trench almost ready I'm digging another trench that runs due south from the chicken coop and then branches west. Most of this has turned out to be very hard clay at the 50 foot mark. It's probably going to be done this coming week. I watered four rows of cactus...
05/22/2024	Farm Log	Too much water on the cactus I found a cactus on row five that had dropped new pads because the base was rotting. That is from over watering. I'm going to a two week lapse between waterings of the cactus field.
05/21/2024	Farm Log	One hundred foot water line north of wellhead is done After redigging the 100' line north of the pump house during the winter rains, I cleaned it out and finished the water line with a faucet at 50' and at the end at 100'. Nothing much going on here except watering. The purple asparagus is finally sprouting...