We Do Things Different Here in Texas

I'm excited about my tomatoes this year.  Instead of buying the standard hybrids available at the local garden center attached to Lowes ...

Back in the fall of 2010 I planted broccoli for the first time.  I was curious to see how it would grow.  One of the first things I notice...

Who Knew Peppers Would Survive the Blazing Summer Sun? I had a most pleasant surprise when I cleared the morning glory vines off the spring ...

The weather here in South East Texas is beautiful. My tomatoes have been planted for a few weeks now but is wasn't until last week that ...

This year I tried something a little different. I started "Lasagna" composting, i.e. linear composting is what it's been calle...

It's been an interesting Spring. We harvested scores of tomatoes, at least all the ones we could nab before the birds punctured holes i...

Not long ago, a friend sent me a website that showed how to grow potatoes in a bag of dirt.  I'm not much into growing potatoes.  They a...