Tag Archives: Organic Gardening
Square Foot Gardening & Companion Planting.
Planting veggie beds for the first time can be a challenge for the new gardeners trying to figure what to grow, when to grow and how you can fit all the goodies you want in your small space. One great strategy is to “Square foot garden”. This is exactly what it sounds like. You mark …
Desert Willow (Chilopsis linearis)
Desert Willow is one of my favorite specimen tree’s. This tree is a full sun, extremely drought tolerant, prolific bloomer. Native to Texas, this breathtaking tree is an excellent choice in the landscape. One of the things I especially love about the Desert Willow flowers, aside from the fact that they put on a show from early …
Thornless Blackberry (Rubus Ursinus)
Blackberries are not only delicious but good for you to. The Blackberry, a member of the rose family, is in fact not a true berry, it is botanically termed an aggregate fruit as it composed of small drupelets. The plant roots are perennial but produce biennial stems, this is best explained here, the old stems will die off and the new …
Dill, Delicious as it is Beautiful!
I have made it my goal over the past several years to not only change my landscape to primarily edible plants, but to find the most interesting flowers from those plants to use in the perennial beds. I have always been organic, well “always” meaning as long as I have known better. I must admit …
Edible Gardens…Delicious!
Square Foot gardeningWhile there are a lot of followers of my blog and in some cases in other parts of the country, unless you have gone through a Texas Summer, you cannot imagine the challenges of a Texas garden. This past year has been no exception. With record heat, drought and the threat of another …