My Garden At Night Video

 

The Garden Gnome holds a jar of firelflies.
It is a solar light that sparkles when the sun goes down on
Little Utah Farm.

In summer you can always find me in my garden after the sun goes down. I love to watch the solar lights come on. These beautiful solar lights, butterfly, dragonflies, hummingbird, crescent moon, angel, gnome and lantern turn colors of the rainbow. 

I adore walking around the garden boxes, through the trellises, and past the beautiful glowing lights. I enjoy every moment of it.

When your growing season is 5 months short, the garden becomes a meditation, a place for peace, and uplifting discoveries. From seed to sprouts, from buds to bloom, the garden is wondrous friend. She takes me into realities that are true. 

Here is a video of my garden at night. The flowers and lights all a glow. I share a special clip of a hummingbird moth we saw a few days earlier, August 29.  I had not ever seen one have you ? 

Here is the video Little Utah Farm Night Garden

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Garden Pizza-Like Zucchini

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Here is a great idea for those big zucchini you get from your garden. Use the ones that are still fleshy inside and the seeds are still tender. We are going to make Pizza ! This is the kind of pizza you will eat with a fork. 

This zucchini was 4" in diameter.

1. Cut 1/4 " slices. ( For me 6 slices fit my baking sheet) My slices were 4" in diameter.

2. Oil the slices and lay on a foil lined baking sheet.

3. Set foil lined baking sheet with oiled zucchini slices in oven 6" under broiler and broil for 2-4 minutes on each side (I am at 6,000 ft elev. so it took 4 minutes) begin watching at 2 minutes.

Take out and cool. You can eat them like this. Add some salt and pepper yum* or...

4. Next put a spoonful of spaghetti sauce on each one ( I cut up some canned Italian stewed tomatoes .)

5. Put a slice of mozzarella cheese to fit on top of each slice. ( I only had Colby) 

6. Broil 2-4 minutes. start watching those at 2 minutes and remove when just beginning to brown. 

Take out of the oven and cool on a rack for 5 minutes. They are very good. 

Garden Pizza-Like Zucchini

Use a spatula to carefully remove from the baking sheet and place on a plate and enjoy. 

Just think of the toppings you can put on this. What comes to mind is a thin slice of homegrown tomato, genoa salami, and a slice of cheese. What about bacon and bleu cheese ? Many possibilities. 

Deborah Moon Moen
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A Milestone For Me On Little Utah Farm

A Milestone For Me On Little Utah Farm.

Living on this Little Utah Farm, has been a great teacher. I have learned a lot about myself and life in these past 9 1/2 years.  Here is one such lesson.

I was born and raised in Southern California. I lived where the scent of roses filled the air and the green foliage, grasses, plants, trees, and mild weather thrived and continued all year long. I remember putting seeds or a new plant in the ground and it would thrive. We could plant most all year through.

When we moved to Utah we entered into a whole different world of  landscapes and we met with the 4 seasons. My garden and the surrounding land were barren and brown to this California Girl. A Green Deficit sent me into a flurry of collecting artificial trees and flowers. It was the best idea I could come up with besides patience.

It took quite a few years, but I came to see the spiritual beauty in the 4 seasons, I began to feel the changes deep in my soul.  There was meaning to the Colors and waning of Autumn, the white stillness of winter, the awakening of spring, and the flourishing of summer.

The garden on Little Utah Farm is flourishing. 

Yesterday, I went into the shed to get a weeding tool and my eye caught a dusty old artificial pine tree in the corner. I laughed out loud at my old feeling of panic and the Green Deficit as my garden and the surrounding land is now bursting with all the goodness summer can hold. What was once a life savor for my sorrow was now ready for the trash.

I lifted the top section of the tree and then the base and carried it out to the trash. I thought and wondered how could I ever think this would substitute for the beauty and splendor my garden has shown me.  I put the lid down on the trash can and a big smile sprouted on my face as I brushed the dirt and dust from my hands. This is indeed a milestone, real growth for me as I continue to learn on Little Utah Farm.



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Winter Layers For My Garden

Compost right over the soil.

I discovered a natural way to nourish our garden soil and keeps the weeds down. In this post, I will share how I did it.

 Our soil is hard clay and for 5 years we have mixed in llama manure and rototilled it in. I came across this method of putting layers of materials over the top of the soil like you would a compost pile. This process will invite beneficial microbes, bacteria and earthworms. It will also keep most of the weeds from growing. 

Autumn is now in full force. The nights are in the 20's. The orb weaver cat spiders, which came to visit us this year, transitioned in the cold leaving their beautiful webs behind. The grasses in the pasture have begun to brown, and the leaves that fell from Grandmother Apple Tree were mulched and placed in a pile by the corn field to use later in the garden. 

The garden was dismantled, cleared, and ready for a nourishing mask of green manure, kitchen scraps, hay, and fallen leaves. Husband went out and collected cardboard boxes for the project. You can also use newspaper ( no colored ink or shiny surfaces) discarded toilet paper rolls, shredded junk mail ( no colored inks or shiny surfaces) We had everything else we needed like kitchen scraps, tea bags, hay, llama manure, dead leaves, and hay or straw.

Here is how we laid the layers in the garden.

      1. Removed any tape from the boxes and cut them to lie flat. 

       2. Water the soil first then lay down the cardboard. I let them overlap about 6" so the weeds cannot come through.

      3. Water over the cardboard.

      4. Put down green manure on the cardboard. We used fresh llama manure and kitchen scraps. 

       5. Water over the manure.

      6. Scatter dead leaves and hay or straw over the manure. 

      7.Water over the leaves

You can repeat these layers if you want to. Water each layer.  

The snows will come and in the spring the ice will melt into this nourishing mask and it will be ready for planting and seeding. 
The cardboard will be easy to penetrate for planting or roots to grow through. If the cardboard is still firm, then I cut a hole or x’s in the cardboard to plant.

I thoroughly enjoyed this project. I felt close to Mother Nature. I am also doing the layer technique in our garden boxes. I will lay down what is left from the plants in the boxes and begin to layer over that. 

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Garden as though you will live forever.

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The Pasture Gate

Here is the pasture gate that opens to an acre long pasture road on Little Utah Farm. ~ Deborah Moon Moen

When we first stepped foot onto what was to be Little Utah Farm, I noticed it had a long gate across what I imagined to be a pasture road. I was smitten with the romantic notion of a pasture road with a long gate that swung across so you could tie it to the garden fence to bring in the big bales of hay. Just the thought of actually driving along a road into the back of the property was wonderful to me.  When we moved in, the road was hard clay. When it rained, the clay got really soft and muddy. We sunk up to our ankles and hub caps. One of my first chores was pulling out a good 1,000 tumble weeds that grew all the way from the front to the back. 

Our corn field and tractor sign along our pasture road. ~ Deborah Moon Moen

Now as I walk down the pasture road I enjoy the golden light of morning shining on the corn field and this tractor sign. Paul and I first saw such a sign along a very rural Route 1002 on our way to Milford, UT. It was so simple yet the silhouetted picture on the sign told you everything you needed to know. Paul's tractor drives down this pasture road often. 


Improvements have been made. The road is now covered in gravel. Tall cottonwood trees line the road and in summer the garden is full of sunflowers and corn. There are hens in the coop, ducks in the pond, fresh eggs to gather, and llamas in the corral. I love how Little Utah Farm has grown into our dream farm. 

~ Deborah Moon Moen of Little Utah Farm

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Garden- Summer of 2012

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We had a very mild winter and felt it was safe to begin early in March to till the soil. We laid out all the compost from the bin onto the garden patch. Paul used his Kabota tractor and then attached a rototiller that he had rented. The tiller made the hard soil and clay like cake flour. It was wonderful!

New Garden rows  April 2012

It was so easy to make the rows. I made it in three sections. In one whole section I planted 92 seeds of Peaches and Cream Corn.

July 17-2012

A garden can teach many things and this year I learned that even though the winter is mild there can still be hard freezes in the spring. We had about 4 of them. It was the second week of May when the corn began to sprout and only 40 seeds out of 92 sprouted. I planted more corn. But all in good time, around July, things began to grow in our garden.




In July the moist air came up from the south and Utah got more rain than we ever experienced in our 4 summers here. With the rain came early and late evening lightening and thunder storms. Everyday the white fluffy thunderhead clouds would rise up over the mountains in all directions and meet somewhere in the middle late afternoon. We are still experiencing these storms well into August..

August 8, 2012



My scoop for Llama Bean Manure Tea.

These elements really nourished our soil and fed the plants. There is such a difference in watering my garden with a hose or the sprinklers with city water and having rain to water your garden naturally. The rain seems to energized the plants and along with my llama bean manure tea, my garden grew by leaps and bound what seemed to be overnight. For llama bean manure tea just put one shovel full of llama beans into a 5 gallon bucket and fill to 3/4 full with water. Let steep for 24 hours up to 2 days and scoop out with a gallon milk just cut like in the picture above.

Pumpkins growing fast August 8 planted in July.

The pumpkins planted in July burst forth towards the garden fence. My Morning Glories bloomed and the watermelon is basketball size and still growing. The Early Wonder beets did really well as usual and the spinach, oh the spinach, was so delicious and grew all season.I even had enough to share with my neighbor. My heirloom tomatoes are just now turning red and yellow. I have yellow pear, Italian and red cherry tomatoes. I just picked my first bowl full. Carrots are still forming and will be ready by fall.

My Queen for the day. My first Morning Glory bloomed. August 12,2012

This is on of my favorite parts of summer when everything is lush and green. I would love to have a camera to watch if the garden grows at night. I did notice that it was the new moon last night and in the wee hours of the morning I went outside to look up at the stars. I noticed Venus and Jupiter bright in the sky along with other sparkling stars. I heard the roosters were crowing and imagined the deer were crossing the road to get a nice breakfast in the alfalfa fields. Me and my friend saw tracks going in that direction on our walks.

Well, that is all for now.
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Until we meet again,

Deborah `MOON`

Garden ~ Soil As Soft As Cake Flour

Our garden soil looks wonderful!

This year Paul rented a rototiller for the day at Ahearns Rental on 800 W. It costs about $55. A new one cost $1500. We need it done only once a year. So it was wonderful to have a rental place in town that offered this amazing attachment for our Kabota tractor. The mix of grass clippings, chicken manure and llama beans we added all year long  got mixed into the clay and the blades cut the hard clods of dirt deep and when it was done it looked like course flour.


I made my rows  April 25, 2012. This year we had such a mild winter we were able to start earlier. the earth was so easy to work with. I enjoyed making the 3 sections of rows. The one in the foreground is for Peaces and Cream Corn. I planted 95 seeds.





I made my rows the next day.

The little green tips of corn came up one Mothers Day May 13. I was so excited !

Peaches and Cream Corn Sprout

I discovered a volunteer Wallflower and last years Catnip in one of my garden boxes. How nice to see it there.

I am planting celery, beets, parsnip, radishes, spinach, carrots, squash, pumpkin and more to mark what was in the rows I cut stakes out of a milk jug and painted them with acrylics. It was so much fun adding color to the garden.




Homemade plant stakes

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Until next time, Happy Spring !
Deborah