Category: Plants

  • Start Seeds In Small Pots

    Thursday is my planting day. If I keep putting seeds in dirt eventually something good will happen. The good in this case would be having so many veggie starts to put in the ground that I have to tear up my whole lawn to plant them. Good would be to have product to sell in…

  • Crepe Myrtle

    Crepe Myrtle is a common ornamental around Houston. It is easy to understand why when you see the showy blossoms thriving in July heat. It is a heat that kills just about everything except okra and collards so the pillars of pink are welcome by many. I find it garish and so I was thinking…

  • Squash Transplants

    This is the spot in the compost where we threw the old pumpkin that we didn’t have time to clean and carve.  Look at those beauties.  You can see the seeds and the sprouts. Cucurbitacea, one of the gardener’s favorite botanical families for a number of reasons.  First, there are lots of yummy veggies in…

  • Want to Garden? Start with Collard Greens

    Here is a raised bed with Collard Greens.  If you live in the south and want to start gardening, start with Collards.  They will come through for you.  Look how well the collards below turned out despite growing in the middle of an ant pile and remaining in their 4 inch pots.  Amazing! The corner…

  • Sunny again – but the damage is done

    Freezing one minute, balmy the next. Sometimes a freeze will reveal something about your garden that you didn’t know before.  In this case a collard plant was hiding in the Bidens alba.  Bidens can’t take a freeze so it all went dark green and limp but the ever resilient Collard greens survived.  Like the sun peaking…

  • E-commerce Journey

    Start at the beginning This isn’t just a gardening blog.   Well maybe someday it will be just about gardening. But today I will share a bit about my journey into understanding the internet and E-commerce.    This is what I know today regarding E-commerce : open safari, or Firefox, or chrome, type ‘google.com‘, type what…

  • Saved Seeds – Conquered Fears

    The thought of planting 10 okra plants didn’t seem like a very big deal.  And it isn’t.  Except for one thing… ROACHES Ahh, the American Red Cockroach, the companion of the southern gardener.   Yes, we must face the truth if we want to garden in the sun belt.  The roaches are with you.  I…