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2015_Day 69: Tomatoes waiting for weekend

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Can’t wait for the weekend and the chance to plant my garden – at least the tomatoes. I’m staying with my favorites, two Early Girls, one Better Boy and two Sweet 100s. Actually, there may be two Sweet 100s in each of the two containers I bought. So totally, I’d have seven tomato plants. Continue reading →

2015_Day 57: Too late to sow seeds indoors, but outdoors awaits

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From dokity.com

From dokity.com

For as much as I’ve been looking forward to Spring and the prospect of an earlier gardening season in central Texas, you’d think I would have paid closer attention to last-freeze dates. Continue reading →

2015_Day 46: Ready, set, Spring!

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Oodles of tomato plants now can be found at local stores, a sure sign spring gardening is just around the corner.

Oodles of tomato plants now can be found at local stores, a sure sign spring gardening is just around the corner.

I feel bad for my family and friends in Wisconsin who are having to endure another round of brutally cold temperatures. February was always the hardest month for me when I lived there. Even though the shortest month of the year, February seemed to go on forever in Wisconsin, seemingly no end in sight from snowstorm after snowstorm or frigid temperatures. Many times both. And it was always dark. Dark when I went to work. Dark when I came home from work. Just depressing. Continue reading →

2015_Day 32: Why are there so many crape myrtle varieties?

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A pink velour crape myrtle tree. From thetreecenter.com

A Pink Velour crape myrtle. From thetreecenter.com


One of the first trees I noticed when we came to Texas was the lovely, flowering crape myrtles. Especially the ones with deep red- or pink-colored flowers. “I definitely want to plant one of those in my yard,” I remember thinking. Continue reading →