The DFW area has experienced rain the last 3 days that was needed and yet can be a problem. A moderate flooding has been warned, with possibilities of it getting worse. We are glad that the weather is producing rain rather than drought, which we have in recent years had.
The flowers and plants will thrive much better with this slow soaking rain. I fear the sun will come out with fierce rays that burn the new growth. One thing has been nice and that is the fact that this rain didn’t come with bad storms, we so often experience here in the Texas area.
April 18, 2010
Rains Came
January 8, 2010
Moon Planting
Understanding effects, and timing your gardening chores accordingly, is a basis of moon gardening. The moon moves in a complete cycle every 29 days. In moon gardening, this cycle is divided in four quarters or phases. Phase refers to the moon’s shape viewed from earth during the month. To plant by moon phases you need an almanac or calendar. It lists exact time and date of the moon phases. A lunar month starts with a new moon, also called “dark of the moon”. From the new moon to first quarter and from first quarter to full moon, the moon grows to a crescent and then a full circle, mid-month. The increasing or waxing phases.
January 7, 2010
Getting Ready for Spring
It’s time to get ready for the coming spring. Early in the month, turn under clover and other green manure crops in the vegetable garden so that the soil will be ready for planting next month. Even if you haven’t planted a green manure crop, till the garden to expose overwintering insects. If there hasn’t been any rainfall, make sure to water outside plants, especially if there’s freezing weather. They need to be well hydrated.
Water holiday gift plants with care. Check the soil before watering to make sure it is dry and to avoid drowning plants. Allowing these and other houseplants to dry out between watering will help prevent or control fungus gnats.
September 23, 2009
Tomatoes
These are cherry tomatoes, and as yet they are very small. The rain almost ruined them recently. Some are already turning orange. We will see how well they fare.
September 20, 2009
I recently found some collard seeds, I had left over from last year. So, I planted them in this pot, and many of them came up. These were the only one’s that managed to make it through the hot summer months. Even though they made it, they are still very tender, and I have to protect them, when I know the sun is going to make it a hot day.
September 2, 2009
I’ve Got Small Tomatoes……
Be they ever so small as yet, I have cherry tomatoes growing on the plant that’s hanging from the bottom of a pot. The sun has tried to burn some of the leaves, but the rest of the plant is healthy. In a few weeks I should have some nice cherry tomatoes for a salad…….
August 13, 2009
Planting Sunflower Seeds……..
A farmer in a sunflower field in Los Palacios, Cuba. In a speech to lawmakers last weekend, Raul Castro extolled the value of oxen, saying a pilot program promoting urban farming and relying on the beasts of burden in the central province of Camague.
A farmer works his oxen in a field in Los Palacios, Cuba. Cuba may rely more heavily than ever on oxen to save fuel normally used by heavily machinery.
Urban Garden
A man waters the harvest in an urban garden in Havana August 11, 2009. Cuba’s urban agriculture movement, developed in the 1990s as a response to the food crisis after the collapse of its former benefactor the Soviet Union, provides over 50 percent of the vegetables Cubans eat.
August 7, 2009
Hanging Tomato
I’ve got several flowers on my upside down, tomato plant……….I hope they make tomatoes for me……….they are the little red cherry tomatoes, and usually make a bunch of fruit. Cherry’s are great in a salad, sliced in half……..and I’m ready for them to get growing…….please…….. 
July 27, 2009
Grapefruit Tree
This was grown from a couple of seeds, I extracted from a grapefruit, that I was eating at the time. 
It’s grown so tall that I can’t get a full picture of it without lessening the effects of the plant. The rain we’ve been having has cause it to grow some larger leaves than the one’s below it.
