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Yeah! High today of only 98 degrees!

I was able to stay in the garden until noon.  This is the first time all week that I have been able to spend much time at all out there without bursting into flames. So what did I do?  I pruned and tied up tomatos.  Did you know that it’s not necessary to plant entirely […]

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The Scoop About Poop

Guess what we did this weekend!  Go ahead and guess.  I’ll wait. We scooped poop.  A lot of it.  We had to clean out the chicken run and, because of one thing or another, we were running a bit behind schedule.  It really should have been done at least a month earlier, but this was […]

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May Garden Chores

Finish April’s chores!  Isn’t that the way it always is? Spray Roses and crepe myrtles with baking soda spray weekly to control black spot and fungus. Mow weekly, tune up mower and sharpen blades. Pot up extra seedlings to give away. Give bad bugs a soapy bath. Pull dandelions to feed to chickens and bearded […]

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What about composting?

Composting is definitely worth the effort. You can buy some pretty fancy composters and I have a tumbling style that was given to me, but I haven’t really been pleased with any of the commercially available ones. At the Grapevine Botanical Gardens at Heritage Park (on Ball St.), the Gaylord Texan has donated a demonstration […]

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