Walking through my garden this morning… there is such a lot of work to be done! It has been nearly a month since I have spent any real time there. Life just gets in the way sometimes, but it seems to hit full on in August just when things really need to get done for […]
Last year was a very hard year with the loss of John’s father and his grandmother. We just found this piece that our son had written after attending Mamo’s funeral. He was kind enough to let me share it here. “I just got the call. Mamo passed away.” My brother and I looked up to […]
It’s time for fall planting and I have laid out the plan. Of course, being sick for the past week has already put me behind, but planting is not all that labor intensive and it’s still possible to catch up. It’s pulling up all the old stuff and figuring out where to put everything that’s […]
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 […]
Wow… for something that I wanted to try to do weekly, I sure haven’t kept up with this very well the past couple of weeks. A tour of the garden shows a lot of really exhausted plants. A lot of them look somewhat sunburned – including my aloe vera. There are some things still blooming […]
The Mrs. B.R. Cant is a tea rose that was introduced in England in 1901. Can you imagine? This rose has been handed down by cutting (asexual reproduction) for over 100 years! Mrs. B.R. Cant has an ARS rating of 8.7, which is very good. It is very disease and pest resistant. It also seems […]
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 […]
Wow! It has been a while since I posted. What with the tornado (debris was finally picked up this week), the 100+ degree heat in June, and a mini ‘stay-cation’ (since John was finally able to get a few days off) I haven’t been able to get much done here or in the garden. And […]
It’s still June and we are already having 100°+ days! According to the weather station at Rheudasil Park in Flower Mound, today’s high was 99.7 degrees. AccuWeather.com is forecasting tomorrow’s high to be 102 degrees with a “real feel” of 108 degrees. Heat advisory, humidity, “real feel” – gardening seems all but impossible. And the […]
Well, considering that Texas is as large as most countries, there is a lot of terrain to cover. Texas includes everything from marsh, to desert, to mountains and forests. Geology, geography, water and climate all come together to determine what kinds of plants will grow where. Yes, you might be able to grow something completely […]
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