Author: Don You’ve heard of The Old Farmer’s Almanac for guidance to all your gardening needs. Well this year I plan to follow my neighbor, and long-time gardening guru, Raymond Jones, for similar guidance on my central Texas garden. He started this season with tilling a 13-13-13 fertilizer into his loamy soil, and then…
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What to Plant February 2013
I looked at the Mother Earth planting guide for this area, and here’s what I’ll be planting in February: beets, carrots, collards, mache, radish, sorrel, spinach, lettuce, potatoes, onions, and eggplant. I’ll be using plenty of fish emulsion, Garrett Juice, and organic fertilizer to help add nitrogen to the soil. I’d plant arugula, but apparently…
Beginning 2013 Garden
In the fall, we began preparing Don’s garden for this year’s vegetable crop, by amending the soil and planting legumes (for that information, click here). The legumes were a bust, very few came up. I’m sure our long drought had a lot to do with it. So we have a new plan. We never give…
Gardening – 2012 in the Rear View Mirror
Last year’s gardening efforts weren’t very impressive. It started out fabulously, but then the various squash pestilences started. Then the deer ravaged the backyard garden, so we finally put up netting. Then came the grasshoppers, so we used Nolo Bait, but it didn’t stop the destruction. I waited patiently to plant some winter greens, got…
Autumn Pecan Hunt
The wind has really helped with the pecan harvest. There are so many pecans, it’s hard to keep up. Because of all of the planted areas around the house, it’s like an Easter egg hunt to find some of them. These are just from a couple hours of gathering. In total there’s at least 200…