If you have unwanted visitors bugging your plants, there are a number of organic ways to help in your mission! For aphids and spider mites, blast your plants with water, on a daily basis. Because this disrupts the environments that they love, it’s extremely effective. When I need a little more help, disinviting the unwanted…
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Fire Ants, Grasshoppers, and Weeds
It’s the triple threat of summer, in Central Texas. My goal is always to do things as naturally as possible, for many reasons, but the most significant is because, it’s the only thing that works long term. If you’re like me, and you want to get rid of fire ants naturally, you try every new…
Summer Gardening 2013
Every once in a while, I’ll have an idea that’s actually kind of incredible. Remember me talking about planting elbon rye as a cover crop, in the big garden? We let it go to seed, and Don planted all the vegetables in spaces he created in the rye. Eventually, when the rye got dry, he…
Growing Greens This Winter
I’m surprised there’s some nice fall color this year, and I might as well enjoy it, since not much is going on in the garden. Although, I noticed the nasturtiums I planted in an oblong pot outside my back door are coming up. I’m looking forward to the color as winter progresses, and the…
Damn-age Control
I feel like I should start a 12 step program to help gardeners recover from persistent pests and obsessively trying to grow things in central Texas. I live in the city, perhaps the pests just need to have some signage to remind them that they are in the city limits. There’s lots of country for…