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What Was Paradise?

Back Corner April 2009 What was paradise but a garden? – William Cole

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The Three Sisters

“The Three Sisters” is a method of companion planting that was used by the Native Americans.  The trio consist of corn, pole beans and either squash or pumkins.  This is a great combination to grow!  We used squash and the corn we used was a strawberry popcorn.  The three sisters each give the others something […]

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Veggies!

I can’t wait to harvest my first tomato of the season!  The plants are looking great with plenty of buds.  The peppers are coming along too.  In fact, we have little seedlings coming up all over the place! Here is what we have (so far): Tomatoes:  volunteer grape tomatoes, Orange Oxheart, Old German, Beefsteak, Brandywine, […]

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Ladybugs!

Every year around this time, we release ladybugs.  This year, we were having a hard time finding them.  Everywhere we went had just sold out. But we finally found some at the Elliot’s Hardware booth at the Living Green Expo in Plano.  I really could have used them a few weeks earlier, but hopefully my […]

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Ahhh… Basil!

I love it!  I love the taste.  I love the smell.  I love the shape of the plant.  And basil must like me too because my plants tend to get huge.  But that’s OK.  I will eat it all summer long! There are many different varieties of basil and I have tried several, but my […]

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Texas Butterfly Gardening

What fun is gardening without butterflies? But to get an abundance of butterflies to come to your yard, you have to have the plants that they want and need – host plants and nectar plants. Host plants are the plants that butterflies will lay their eggs on and then the hungry caterpillars will eat.  Nectar […]

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Garden Smells

I love the smells in my garden.  OK… the compost can sometimes smell strong and that bucket of weeds that has collected rainwater and then sat for a week is downright rank.  But over all, the garden is filled with incredible smells.  I love the way it smells when it rains or when the sun […]

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Happiness

The lesson I have thoroughly learnt, and wish to pass on to others, is to know the enduring happiness that the love of a garden gives.  –  Gertrude Jekyll

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‘Cause you got to have friends!

As long as I can remember, my mother planted marigolds around her garden to help keep the bugs away.  So I plant marigold, and all other sorts of flowers around my garden.  I have a very eclectic garden with everything all mixed together, fruits, veggies, herbs, perennials and annuals. Writing this blog is helping me […]

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Garden Tour

Thank you so much Ginny and Kathy for going to the Grapevine Botanical Gardens and to lunch with me today.  I had such a nice time.  I hope you both came away with some good ideas.  Let me know if there is anything I have that you want or if there is anything I can […]

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