Posts from the ‘My Garden’ Category
In our fast paced world, most people like the condensed version. I know I do. I like to get to the facts and “just tell me what to do” part. So I decided to sum up in five easy steps what you need to do to make a garden and start growing your own food. […]
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When I planted my fall garden, I bought the cabbage plants from walmart and planted the lettuce from seed. Here is the cabbage when I planted it. It by far is the prettiest color in my garden. I really have enjoyed the lettuce too, I have two different kinds. I think because it has been […]
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Finally I had my daughter take a video of my garden and I just talk about what I have growing now and how it is planned out. Don’t think you need a garden as big as mine, I have a big family and I built a lot of beds in the beginning in part because […]
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I live in the Houston Area, Texas that is…so it’s warm down here. We are in zone 9a and if you live in Texas and need to know what zone you live in, here is a nifty website to help. If you live in the U.S. here is a great website to find your zone. […]
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I needed to run to the store for celery several months ago so naturally I thought about growing it. I read about it online and decided it might actually work here in Texas. I never see celery seeds anywhere in the stores here so I ordered “Utah 52-70” celery seeds online at amazon.com. I planted […]
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Yesterday I went to Sweet Organic Solutions to get some new seeds to plant and I was excited to tell Donna Faye about how well my anaheim peppers were blooming. I bought the plant from her about 2 months ago. I showed her a picture from my website on my iphone found HERE and she laughed […]
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Cold weather finally arrived! Brrrrr…I’m a baby when it gets cold, I guess living in the south where it is warm most of the year has spoiled me. It’s supposed to get into the low 30’s so I decided to cover everything. Last year I used a white plant cloth that was great but I […]
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Last Winter I harvested 3 heads of green cabbage and I took these pictures for my blog but didn’t get around to posting them. This year I have 6 red and 3 green cabbage heads growing which will be ready in a few months. To care for cabbage I pull the outer leaves off if […]
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I had an idea last night to make some videos of my garden… so here goes and I almost didn’t upload this because I look goofy and the video is not great but hey I am swallowing all pride for the sake of showing you how the carrot harvest went. I saw the top of […]
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Last year my sugar snap peas were thick and juicy and this years variety is the thinner type. I’m not sure why. Sugar snap peas are great for stir fry and the kids just love to take them in their lunches as a snack. I always eat some in my garden while I’m watering so […]
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