Spring is finally upon us and the wildflower bed I prepared last fall is teeming with greenness! This is the first time I’ve sown wildflower seeds and I have no idea what each of these plants are, but there are hundreds of them! I purchased the seeds from mybluebonnets.com, a local Austin seed distributor. [...]
I decided to do a little research so that I can put those dates out there for anyone else looking for vegetables to plant in Central Texas and when to plant them. I discovered that the Travis County website has a monthly planting calendar that is quite helpful. In addition, I used the Aggie Planting [...]
Dave’s Garden has a great tool you can use to enter your zip code and receive your area’s last/first frost dates. Not only that, but it will provide local “detailed station data” highlighting the percentage of likelihood of receiving frost at particular dates in your immediate area. The result summary will also tell you when [...]
Saturday was a beautiful day of sunshine. I didn’t have as much time as I would have liked to spend gardening, but I think I made the most of what little time I had. I pulled up the remaining carrots. There were slightly more than three dozen, all with varying sizes. In retrospect, I need [...]
It looks like the transplants are starting to take off now after a few days – the broccoli all looks to have survived the deeper planting and their stems appear firm. A little added luck: the only spinach plant that sprouted, which then got nibbled off by our tubby cat, also looks to have survived. [...]
