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 , [...]
I know I said in a previous post that we get the mild winters, well every now and then Mother Nature pulls a fast one. Friday afternoon, it started snowing here , not a blizzard mind you but snow. This was the earliest recorded snowfall in our area since they started recording stuff like this. [...]
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.
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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 [...]
We finally got some good rain! For the last two weeks its been coming a shower here and a thunder boomer there, well we finally got a goos hour long soaker.
The rains have been mostly the summer afternoon 10 minute jobs, but this one hung around for a while, about a month too late, everything [...]
Watermelon and Corn can stand triple digit heat!
April Garden Update, Onions , garlic and spinach and horseradish update
Wow , I can’t tell you how much rain we have had in the last two days! It started Friday afternoon , It came down for a couple hours and cleared off. Then Saturday it really came on strong. It was nice up till 10:30 or so, it started with a lite drizzle, and [...]
The old saying in Texas is “If you don’t like the weather, wait 10 minutes, it will change.” Aint it the truth! Last week temps were reaching the 80’s, Seedlings were put out , sweet potato slips planted, fig trees were putting out strong buds, even some small figs showing. Then [...]