Spring Gardening Checklist: Preparing Your Garden for the Growing Season As winter gives way to spring, gardeners eagerly await the chance to nurture their outdoor spaces once again. Whether you're...
Starting a garden from scratch can be an incredibly rewarding journey. Whether you’re looking to grow your own vegetables, cultivate beautiful flowers, or create a peaceful retreat, gardening offers...
How to Create a Hummingbird Garden Outside Your Window Imagine sipping your morning coffee while tiny, iridescent hummingbirds flit just outside your window, their wings a blur as they hover and sip...
How to Grow Coneflower (Echinacea): A Guide to This Hardy and Beautiful Perennial Coneflowers, scientifically known as Echinacea, are beloved for their daisy-like blooms, resilience, and ability to...
Growing Creeping Myrtle (Vinca Minor): A Beautiful and Hardy Ground Cover Creeping myrtle, also known as Vinca minor or periwinkle, is a versatile and hardy evergreen ground cover that thrives in...
Explore innovative ways to reduce water usage while enhancing the beauty and functionality of your outdoor space with hardscaping techniques.Hardscaping involves the use of non-living elements like...
What Is Composting and Why Is It Important? Composting is the process of recycling organic waste into nutrient-rich soil, often called "black gold" by gardeners. This natural process involves the...
The Black Soldier Fly is an amazing creature. It is not the pesky fly that you are always swatting away from your body or food. It does not bite or sting. As an actual fly, it only lives a...
Eastern Redbud Trees: A Stunning and Pollinator-Friendly Addition to Your Landscape The Eastern Redbud (Cercis canadensis) is a breathtaking deciduous tree that heralds the arrival of spring with...
Damping-Off DiseaseDamping off disease is a common term for deadly soil-borne fungi that attack seeds, stems, and roots of seedlings. Phytophthorathat, pythium, fusarium, and rhizoctonia fungi...
Composting with eggshells!What is in eggshells that help your garden? Calcium! Calcium is a building block for cell walls in plants. Having plenty of calcium helps prevent blossom end rot on fruit....
The Columbine flower is one of the easier perennial flowers I have planted from seed. The pictured plant is on its 2nd year. They live 2-3 years but they self seed. With that said, I did not...
Growing watermelons is fun!!!I tried growing watermelons in 2011, doing the "raised hill" thing. They all sprouted and then shortly later...died. My theory was they were planted too far away from...
Growing garlic may be one of the easiest things I have ever done. Here is a step by step guide of how to grow garlic that worked for me. When should you plant Garlic?In Texas you can...
Argiope aurantia commonly known as the black and yellow garden spider, writing spider, or corn spider can be found in any location where it can stretch its web across a wide span, such as eaves...
A hummingbird feeder next to a window gives amazing close up views! Hummingbird nectar is easy to make! No need to throw away money at the store for nectar when you can make your own for just a few...
My addiction…. Jalapeno Peppers!! Preferred raw I eat them with almost every meal. Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner do not seem complete without them! Growing Jalapeno plants from...
The Texas Mountain Laurel, an amazing bush. While resilient to hot dry weather, I have one bush that has far exceeded the normal growth rate. Why? It gets much more water...
Cilantro is an herb used in cooking which comes from the plant Coriandrum sativum and is commonly called Chinese...