I'll happily share the recipe for tomato basil butter, but I'll post it separately so as not to hijack this topic.
Wish I were! Our tomatoes go into "sleep mode" for July and August, recover with the cooler temps and we get another good crop in the fall. I...
Toni, what we have planted in them are a mix of the plants we like, and plants that wildlife like! We have wafer ash trees for butterfly...
Oh, how lovely, both the deer and the woodland. You do have a great view!
When we first started gardening, we had every bed as rectangles or squares and did a lot of stopping and turning when we mowed. We learned that...
We had 25 straight days of temperatures at 100 degrees or above. Today we woke up to 71 degrees, and a light cool breeze. I spent most of the day...
Rosemary is one of our favorite herbs. Here in Texas it is in-ground, evergreen, and hardy as cacti! I prune ours a LOT because it grows so...
Glad y'all like our gardens. Toni, thank you for explaining the vinegar. I keep a sprayer full of it in the barn, and zap weeds in the paths when...
Oh,my, what a lovely community garden! But it is really more than a garden, isn't it--point of community pride, source of tranquility, and beauty...
Yes, I did make the quilt, but when we lived in upstate NY. You wouldn't believe how hard it is to quilt in Texas--all that warmth on your lap!...
We have three vegetable gardens, which really helps when rotating crops or trying to isolate the in-and-out vegetables like beans and spinach from...
[img] Feliz, our calico ( photo / image / picture from marlingardener's Garden )
My husband was offered a job here in Texas. We moved from upstate New York, the snow capital of the states, to central Texas 14 years ago. After...
Fish 4 All, Instead of drying parsley, try freezing it. I find that the flavor keeps much better, and the color is more attractive, also. I chop...
I love cucumbers! Fresh in a salad, pickled, or just washed off and eaten on the way to the house, cucumbers are great. Of course, I also love...
Thank y'all for the warm welcome! I'll be posting photos soon. I have a few of "before" pictures which are mainly my husband trying to cut down 7'...
Hello to y'all, my husband and I moved to our small delapidated farm three years ago, and have been whipping it into shape ever since. We have...
