Genesis Gardens Homestead

09/07/2026

08/03/2026

the grasshoppers are getting big, if anyone needs a load, I'm ready to ship. LOL. This is damage caused by grasshoppers to my chile. This is from one plant so you can multiply by hundreds to get some idea of the extent of the damage and it will only get worse as the season progreses. I did get some good pods off the plants also.

06/21/2026

06/20/2026

Digging onions this morning. I harvested all the Granex onions, and all the Texas Early Whites. The granex are the sweet Vidalia onions, just not grown in Vidalia, Georgia but in Tucumcari, NM! Kinda like Hatch Chiles grown in Tucumcari, same varieties, taste is better. These are available at the farm now or will be available at the farmers market starting July 11. Hope to have a few red onions harvested by then also. Soon we will have sweet yellow candy onions and Super Star white onions as they are getting close to harvest.

06/15/2026

I wanted to give an update on what's been going on here at the farm. Mostly work and a few health challenges. We've been planting, transplanting, hoeing, harvesting, pulling weeds, and a lot of watering. The crops are looking pretty good for the most part. No grasshoppers which is a huge blessing to us. The chile looks good and is blooming. We planted a bit more chile than was originally planned so we will have a bit for sale if things work like they should. It will only be available at the farm, nothing at the farmers market. And supply will be very limited. The cucumbers 🥒 are blooming too although theirs is mostly for show at the moment. We harvested the green onions as green onions, then the rest bulbed up into small white onions which have since been harvested for sale at the farmers market. We will be harvesting big bulb onions the next couple of months as they become ready. The large Texas whites will be ready very soon. The Vidalias are getting harvested a few at a time now. The candys will be ready very soon. We harvested garlic on Saturday which was a large disappointment as the bulbs were not up to par size wise. I lost most of my seed garlic last year so I had purchased some out of California which didn't size up well. So I guess it's back to saving our own selected bulbs for the next few years to get back to where we were. It's kind of a bummer because I've been selecting my garlic seed for over 20 years for size and quality. Also I had moved the garlic patch to another smaller location where the soil wasn't as fertile so I've got lots of soil rejuvenation to do. Oh, such is farming... we harvested one container of red potatoes yesterday, these are just for our use, i included a picture. thanks to everyone for all your support and encouragement. We are looking forward to a good year, God willing.

04/22/2026

We have green onions available now! We had some for lunch, they're delicious. Give Sally a call 575.403.7036.

04/21/2026

Just a quick update... we're watering onions, cabbages, cauliflower, broccoli, rutabagas, a few carrots 🥕, beets, and chard. The chard is ready, if you need some greens, give us a shout. The rutabagas are also ready if you're wanting to try one of those. They're really quite tasty. It's finally feeling like it's time to get some transplants in the ground.
We've been busy transplanting chile and tomatoes into 6packs for transplanting into the garden. They are still small but growing fast. The frost last week was pretty cold here, 28 degrees inside the greenhouse. A few potatoes outside turned black but will come back fine. Everything else is fine.