Tag Archives: Organic
How Do I Begin a New Landscape?
The first thing you want to do is decide how you plan to use your land and be sure to create as many living and seating places throughout the space as possible. You can hire a designer, consultant or even go online for inspiration to design and create your own space to enjoy. Whether it …
Should I Leave My Leaves In The Landscape?
To leave or not to leave, that is the question and the answer is yes, and no. Timing, type of leave, depth of beds and so and health of the plants dictate the benefit of leaf matter in your beds. Stiff hard leaves like those below take time to break down and should be cut …
5 Easy Steps to Conserve Water in the Texas Landscape.
Central Texas and Austin in particular is growing by leaps and bounds. This constant influx of people has a huge impact on our water source and it’s everyones responsibility to conserve whenever possible. This doesn’t mean you install a yard full of rocks and cacti. If you are looking to conserve water in your yard with …
Central Texas Gardener for Life
For those of you who know me and have followed my blog it is a no brainer that I would be excited to be featured on the local PBS station KLRU for my low water, minimal maintenance, mostly edible garden. I actually fueled my passion for gardening here in Central Texas by watching this …
How to Use Compost
This is a follow-up blog to my previous titled “Composting” so if you have not read it, click the link because this is an area that requires more than one page. Composting has many different sides to it, there are the composters, the vessel used to create compost, composters, the people who make their own …