Hey everyone!!!

[jclabiosa]

Im a married mother of four in my early thirties. We live right in the middle of the Mojave Desert so gardening around here is quite a challenge with 100-115 degree weather from middle of May to mid Oct But I keep trying, flower bed is great lots of sunflowers,hollyhocks even got columbine and bleeding hearts to keep coming back. I have been fasinated with the simple life since I was a kid. I grew up with my grandparents who were poor and raised in PA where you could grow everything and make everything you needed and they did. My Papa still says that if you want hard work to walk behind a twelve inch bottom plow for twelve hours a day at the age of 10. I guess I could also blame my love of the country on repeated readings of Little House on the Prairie. We are hoping to sell the house here and by some property in middle Tennesse up by Kentucky in the next 18 mons. Then I can put my plans into motion: cows, chickens, that big garden, my horses. My husband was born in the Bronx and raised in LA so he thinks I'm absolutly insane but I can be pretty persuasive. He loves the country but not the idea of a farm. So Im here to learn everything I can and hopefuly share some ideas along the way.

[bugscufle]

Growing a garden in the desert would be interesting reading.

Would one plant a row of beans or tomatos between two rows of something tall like corn so as to preserve moisture and prevent intense heat damage?

[B00kW0rm]

Hi and welcome to the forum!

[TNDadx4]

Hello and welcome.

We live (there are some more on the forum here, too) in middle Tennessee and love the area here.

BTW, there's nothing wrong with Little House on the Prairie :) My wife and kids love it! For my, though, it was Grizzly Adams.

Anyway, welcome!

[homesteadingnky]

Welcome. You're are the right place to learn about homesteading and the like. Lot's of great folks and great info here.

We live in south-central KY just a few miles from the TN line. Any where near here (KY or TN) would be a great place to homestead! Good luck with your move!

Homesteading Dad

[jclabiosa]

My Dad lives in Castalian Springs so we are looking in that area: Bethpage, Hartsville. As for growing a garden here, some years you have luck with certain things and then the next year your tomatos are actually cooking on the vine. It causes you to get fed up and disgusted.