Planting In A Raised Bed: Getting Around Hardening Off
I live in Texas. Things get hot fast and our springs are usually very hot, windy and dry. Putting out transplants is tough. If you are using grow lights and have sprouted your seed indoors (or if you bought from a nursery that grew inside a greenhouse): your plants are not going to like immediate full sun and wind.
Lots of hot dry wind for the windmill my husband built for me!
Most people takeā¦
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Melon Trellising
I usually grow my vining melons on a trellis. Trellising makes them easy to care for and the plants themselves are healthier. Getting melon vines off the ground keeps the powdery mildew under control and I can easily spray the leaves when the inevitable aphid explosion comes.
The Ambrosia F1 hybrid from Burpee is from the middle to the right. Watermelon is on the left, behind the tomatoes. Theseā¦
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Short Frustrating Day In The Garden
So, I have a sprinkler that doesnāt work on one end of my yard and a giant oak that sucks up all the water on the other. The rest of my sprinkler system is not solving this issue, so: I decided to run drip line.
Omg. I forgot how much I hate installing drip line! Itās up there with the likes of chicken wire and hardware cloth. It was nice and cloudy, so: I wasnāt too hot. But, I only got theā¦
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Mine was my grannyās rose garden. Another was the flowerbeds around the farmhouse that my dadās parents lived at. Such beautiful memories!
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Crazy Day, Numero Dos
Long day today, but it was nice out, so I didnāt mind. Worked on the wicking bed. I did a lot of it trying to film with my video camera but I need to sit down and actually read the directions. Iām really not good at electronics!
Shoveling a bunch of gravel into my wagon and rinsing the silt out.
I needed gravel for the next layer of the bed. So I got a bunch from the kidās play yard area. Iā¦
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How Much Craziness Can One Girl Get Up to In A Day?
Today and tomorrow are going to be in the 70ās. Probably the last two days like this until fall. So, Iām trying to get a ton of stuff done. My husband was supposed to go after the boxwoods that are out of control. I needed to cut back the giant fig I have. Since Iāve been waiting months for this to happen and the mowers canāt get into the backyard like it was, I took some loppers and cut a bunchā¦
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Growing Blueberries in South Texas
I bought two blueberry plants from Raintree Nursery a couple of years ago. Iām really enjoying having my own supply. This is todayās haul:
Just enough to make me happy!
The plants are still small, but theyāre still young. Blueberries need acidic soil and lots of water. They have a shallow root system. You can solve these issues by planting them in raised beds with irrigation and giving themā¦
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Local Lizards
I run a mostly organic garden, because: I mostly grow food crops. The only thing I deviate on, is herbicide, and that only goes in select areas. (Like the gravel play area that I did not create.) Well I also use amdro bait. I cannot abide fire ants in my beds. So, as Iām gardening I frequently see lizards and geckos. The coolest lizard I have on my property is called a green anole (Anolisā¦
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Low Maintenance, Highly Productive, Summer Vegetables.
Plant these things now! These is a summer tutorial, but you need to start these plants as soon as possible to harvest them this summer!
The things I grow in summer are things that I donāt have to baby. Today our āfeel likeā temperature was 103 degrees Fahrenheit. Iām not interested in doing manual labor in that sort of heat (Although, I did. I was out in that heat for about an hour and a halfā¦
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Lots Of Drain Tile And Lunacy
Yes, the word ādrainā and ātileā put together means black, corrugated, maybe perforated, underground drainage tubing.
You know! Becauseā¦ it does! I mean when someone says: ātileā I immediately think of ribbed plastic tubing. Duhh.
And every project I dream up, has stages. (Like my kids lego builds.) Thereās pictures in my head of what goes next in the project. Anything that doesnāt appear onā¦
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Don't Wait To Get Rid Of Soil Borne Insects.
Instructions on use.
Weāre coming up on the last few weeks to get beneficial nematodes in before the summer heat. I buy nematodes every year. Sometimes I add them in fall, sometimes in spring. But no matter which season you choose, heat is your enemy.
Full list of target insects and the variety of nematodes that kill them.
Lots of gardeners know about harmful nematodes that cause problems withā¦
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