We made five gallons of grape juice this weekend! I would love to think that I could put some up and save it, but who am I kidding? Half of it is already gone! Grape juice is incredibly easy to make. All you have to do is wash the grapes and add water just until […]
Turk’s Cap is known to biology geeks as Malvaviscus arboreus. It is a decidous perrenial Texas native shrub that will grow in both sun and shade. It’s natural habitats include sandy low grounds near streams, limestone slopes around wooded creeks and palm groves. It ranges from the Texas Coastal Plain, east to Florida and also […]
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 […]
It’s almost ready! I have no idea what kind this is. I think I remember it being Clemson Spineless, but I bought it so long ago that I could be wrong. I bought a Burgundy Okra one time too, but I know that is not what it is. I save a pod every year and […]
We have been eating meat free a lot this week. In spite of the tornado. we have been able to harvest a few wonderful veggies: tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, squash. Garden Fresh Spaghetti Squash OK, so the spaghetti squash I actually bought, but most everything else was from the garden. Ingredients: Spaghetti squash, tomatoes, peppers, yellow […]
What a great little market! Some friends and I went out to peruse some locally grown fare and I was pleasantly surprised by how much I found. There were local meat vendors, fresh eggs, honey, cheese, nuts and all sorts of crafts. I ended up coming home with some honey, some of the most incredible […]
Hollyhocks (Alcea) are perennials that have multiple flower buds on tall central stems (as much as 6 feet) . They are gorgeous at the back of a border along a fence. That is also a good place for them because aphids love to chew up the leaves. You can stop that somewhat by spraying the […]
Thyme is incredible stuff! So is time, but thyme it one of my favorite seasonings for eggs and it is especially good fresh. I have grown creaping thyme, lemon thyme, wooly thyme and regular common thyme. My favorite by far is the lemon thyme. That is also the one that has done the best in […]
This is the Hoja Santa (Piper auritum), from Central America. It is commonly known as the “Root Beer Plant” because it tastes and smells, well, like root beer. This one is pictured at the beginning of the growing season and will get much larger by the end of summer – to about 4 or 5 […]
I remember when I was little going to my Great Aunt Cora’s house in Commerce, TX and eating pomegranates from her trees. She had two or three lining one of those old driveways that was just two concrete strips with a strip of grass in between. Anyway, I fell in love with pomegranates way back […]
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