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Water Conservation, (We are long over due)

♦ 08/27/2011 ♦ 7 Comments

Water, water everywhere and not a drop to drink?  It’s no surprise that after years of record droughts and historic heat waves that people would be thinking of ways to conserve water, but the truth is that water conservation is long overdue. Contrary to popular belief, the drought didn’t begin two years ago it actually …

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Lisa’s 5 Basic Rules of a Successful Gardener

♦ 08/04/2011 ♦ 12 Comments

With the depressing last blog I posted, with impeding doom and drought  just shy of the locusts invading Austin,  I thought at least a few solutions were in order.  I have 5 basic rules to becoming a succesful garden and I have seen them work for over 20 years.  After a recent trip for over …

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