Ok folks, here it is, my homemade seed starting rack! I’m going to use this to get a little head start on my vegetable seeds this year. I tried to start some last year but it just wasn’t enough light is the house with out some serious lighting backup. I think I have that problem [...]
Some Ideas For Your Spring Garden Preparations.
Here in my zone, it won’t be long until the cold weather goes away for a while, and will be replaced with the scorching temps that Southeast Texas is known for. In between those two extremes is the three week period known as Spring, when fair weather and sunshine [...]
We have had some pretty cool temps around here for the last month, also alot of rain too. Everything is one big, cold, mud puddle so doing anything around the garden has been difficult. Today it warmed up to around 50 and the sun was out so I decided to dig up the Horseradish , [...]
The last three tomatoes of the season have turned red, and we’ll miss the great taste of a red, vine ripe summer tomato, oh well only 5 months till spring!
Now to clean out this area for the next round, or maybe I’ll let this bed sit for a while with a thick layer of compost.
First [...]
Hello again,
Well the South Texas heat has finally stopped the relentless assault on us and the rains have returned… we even had a few temps down in the 60’s , you can’t beat that! So it’s been a busy few weeks around here, we have been horse sitting for a friend of my wife’s, we [...]
I was Mowing the yard today and as I rode by the garden I noticed the three tomato plants that lived thru the drought had the top 10 inches or so stripped of it’s leaves!
As I Inspected further I found the culprit, Tomato Hornworms , and there was quite a few of them. The more [...]
Picked a few ears of corn the other day and look what I found!
Watermelon and Corn can stand triple digit heat!
The cucumbers we planted have really started to climb, and they are just loaded with cukes. I think now that I should have made two separate trellis , one for the “straight eights” and one for the pickling variety I planted, but no, I had to mix them together. I can’t tell one from the [...]
Here is a few cucumber plants I planted next to the goat shed. The trellis is a 16 ft cattle panel stood on end. At the top i nailed it to a section of 4×4 lumber and tied that to two old pieces of pipe that were already buried in the ground, so far so [...]