Deal of a Lifetime

I have never done anything like this on the Joes Farm blog and I am a little concerned that I am opening Pandora's box. But, I found one heck of a deal today on http://www.woot.com/ and I would not be able to live with myself if I did not pass on this steal of a deal on to all the faithful Joes farm blog readers. They are giving away ecomposters with a spider base. If you love sustainable "organic" micro farming like I do then you need to make your own compost and with deals like this how can you not get one. I would buy one but I already have a state of the art ecomposter with a 120 gallon capacity.

So if you don't have a composting facility already, take a look at this. Composting is good for the planet, good for the farm, and it is fun for the whole family. Act now! They probably will sell out soon after this is posted.

The Dog Days of August

We are back to the farm after a long hot July. This July was the hottest July in the history of the world. That is science. The temperatures in Las Vegas have never been hotter. The farm took a beating but kept on producing. I could not be happier.

Due to the overwhelming power of the Las Vegas sun in the hottest month in the history of the world I was forced to install a state of the art sun shade to help protect my crops against the destructive solar rays. The crops did sustain some damage over the past several weeks. I did my best to help the crops pull through. I had two beautiful watermelons growing before the onset of heatwave 2010. I do not exactly what happened to them but I can only blame their demise on the heat. One day when I was inspecting the melons I felt around to the backside and they both had gaping cracks in them. I turned them around and found that they had both split open and had become infested with little garden critters. It was like the ants and beetles were having dinner at the Bellagio buffet, only it wasn't the Bellagio buffet it was my watermelons. When I saw this I became enraged with anger and I broke them off and smashed them on the ground. In hindsight I should have taken some photos, but this time the anger won.

Some positive notes from the farm.

we harvested out first potato

The watermelon plants are going full steam ahead and there is a new watermelon that is growing at an alarming rate.

There are some bell peppers that are doing pretty well. you can see that some of them are sustaining damage from the suns harmful rays.

This is a wide shot of the garden. The Watermelon plants are taking over the garden right now. latching on to the tomato plants. They have plenty of blossoms and I have bees cruising around everyday. The watermelon outlook is good.

Here you can see the zucchini plants. I have been dealing with an infestation of what I believe to be squash bugs. I have dealt with them in the harshest way I know how, but they keep coming back.

I have some big things planned for the farm and on how to make this blog even more interesting and educational. Stay tuned and thank you for your continued support and interest.