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The Patchwork Garden: Growing in the Great State of Texas
Lay of the Land
Lone Star, Lots of Landscapes
"This Terrain Ain't Big Enough for the Two of Us"
Mountains, Prairies, Woodlands, Deserts, Ocean Beaches--and Asphalt (Could be worse, could be caliche)
"Quite A Spread You Got There"
Rock, Clay, Sand or Loam? And What's Caliche?
"Climate? We don't need no stinking climate!"
"If You Don't Like the Weather, Wait A Minute"
Four USDA Climate Zones
Frosty Blind Dates (vagueries of "average" last frosts or. "How many times do we set out tomatoes THIS spring?")
Numbed by Cold Hardiness? Don't Sweat the HIGH Temps!
Four Seasons, Texas Style: Salt, Pepper, Steak Sauce and Salsa
So-Called Spring: "Dang, More Rain (Excepting for Drought)"
Break ground back in January, February. Put your 'maters in in March. And mid-March. And late March. Maybe in April, if there is still another late frost.... Don't forget your rubber boots.
So-Called Summer: "Just how "heat tolerant" is it really? "
Wonder why folks eat weird stuff like squash, eggplant and okra? 'Cause it's too dumb to die in the heat, is why!
So-Called Fall: "Dang, More Rain Again! (Excepting for Drought)"
This is the best growing season of the year, when you can really get some serious salads, onions, bounty to put up for the winter--but you have to prep the soil back a month ago, when it was so hot the shade was sweating. Don't forget your rubber boots.
So-Called Winter: "Light frost, heat wave, killing frost, warm, a little rain, more cold--no, it's warm, ice storm, heat wave...."
It ain't just you. The weather even confuses the bugs so bad they don't know when to die....
Patchwork Garden Principles
"Raise Yore Beds Nice 'N Easy Now, Pardner"
Veggie Corrals (Feed Lots for Plants)
When Home on the Range Is More Like an Oven
When It Rains, It Pours
"Texas Hoe-Down" ( Square Foot Style)
Swing Your Bean Block Round an' Round....
Water Her Right and Mulch Her Down!
Dances With(out!) Weeds
"Head 'Em Up, Move 'Em Out!
Crop Rotation: Thermal Survival, or Tornado Damage?
Stampede! (Underground )
"Seasoned Greetings" as the Chili Cookers Say
Spring for Salads--Before the Big Bolt
Desert Days of Summer--Feel the Burn!
Falling for Squash--and Roots, and Greens, and More
Winter Wonder Weather--Dodging Frost and Boiling Heat (Maybe the Same Day....)
Quest for Soil (Even cowfolks like to read a book or watch a movin' picture show. How many puns can you identify? Or want to?)
Urbane Cowpuns, or Saturday Nightcrawler
The Dirt on Dirt
Claymation--Not Just for Theaters Anymore
Say Ka-LEE-chee: Nature's Concrete
Loam, Loam on the Ra-a-ange
Great Sands (maybe....)
What's My Loam?
Clay Conquest
Laying Siege (with 40-Pound Shot)
King Compost
Duke Perlite
Count Vermiculte
Sir Humus
Squire Manure
The Loam Ranger
Another Thrilling Shale of Yesteryear
The Compost Stage
The Old Perlite Prospector
Tracking Vermiculite
Humus Gulch
'Round the Corral ("Keerful with them fancy boots, pardner.")
Kaliche--Nuts!
'Way Down Yonder (every gardener knows it goes down about 1/2 mile [x.x km] where they live....)
Soil Substitutes
A Few Notes On Sand
Sing a Song of Six Bands (Folks in Texas Like Variety in Their Music)
Country Compost
The Perlite Polka
Vermiculite Rock
Haunting Humus Tunes
Manure Melody
Pete Sphagnum and the Acids
My Piece of the Patchwork
"The Lay of the Land" for My Veggie Quilt
""My Neck of the Woods" for Shade and Serenity
Plants
Tools
Journal
Protection
Pest Management--Yep, I grow a good crop of pests. An' you?
Plant Picks & Pics
Links