It’s been quite awhile since I’ve been in the garden for any length of time. Life has been busy. We received news that we are expecting and will be having a baby at the end of May! We’re very excited. Needless to say, we’ve been visiting family as well as getting our third bedroom ready [...]
Last spring I ordered ten milkweed cuttings from livemonarch.org. When they arrived, they also arrived with 75 free milkweed seeds. I sowed the seeds and then let them sit outside until July when I finally got around to transplanting them. I ended up transplanting a total of 32 plants along the southern fence line. The [...]
I took a much-needed leave of absence for the last month or so. The hottest month of the year in Central Texas is August, so there was little I could do in the garden besides try to save a few plants that burned up in the hot, dry weather. Now that the hottest weather has [...]
There are a number of factors I consider when I am planning my garden for the season. The first thing I consider is, “What do I want to grow?“ That usually gets me looking online or in seed catalogs for seeds. If you have ever looked at a seed catalog, then you understand what a [...]
It seems just a bit strange in the middle of the summer to think about fall planting and what my family will be eating fresh from the garden this October and even Thanksgiving. Yet, if I want to be ahead of the ball, I really should begin my fall garden now and go ahead and [...]
