And again, life goes on in spite of all the work I need to do in the garden. Luckily, no matter what I do or don’t do, nature will take over and do its thing. I’m just its most reliable tool. Now it’s too hot to do a lot of things that I wasn’t able […]
It’s really not that hard. All you have to do is fill a container about half way with compost and then fill it the rest of the way with water. Then just let it sit. And sit… After a couple of weeks, you can dilute it to spray on your plants as a foliar feed. […]
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 […]
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 […]
“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 […]
This is a Purple “Homestead’ Verbena that I got from another gardening friend. It is the showiest thing in my garden from about the middle of February until the rest of the garden catches up in May or June. The foliage stays green all year here. I’m not sure if it is a Texas native […]
Well, for us the lazy part may have to wait until next year. You see, we got so busy in the fall that we didn’t over seed with winter rye grass and now we have weeds popping up everywhere. But here is the basic idea of lazy lawn care. Over seed with winter rye. Of […]
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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