Ben Smithson
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Everything is growing good. There are several small cucumbers starting to grow, along with a whole bunch of little baby burpless hybrid cucs too. The hops plants have some sort of snail who has been visiting and munching on the leaves. Dang, if I can only catch that snail…
I’m still waiting for one [...]
While pruning, weeding, and general yard work over the weekend, I snapped a couple of pics of garden progress. The cherokee purple heirlooms from NHG are growing great. I think it’s almost time to put up some bird netting before these get “birded.” The largest tomato has a punched hole it it – [...]
I think it was about a month ago when I picked up some new succulent plants from Northhaven Gardens (which is my favorite nursery in Dallas, btw) to fill in the gaps around the plants that lost their fight from last summer’s drought. This time around, I wanted to see what sorts [...]
Some time during the middle of the winter, I found out about hops rhizomes available from Homebrew Headquarters. (They have the most bitchin’ web site ever.) I placed my order, gave them money, and waited. And waited. And waited. It’s not their fault though. Washington state (or wherever these babies came from) had [...]
I didn’t plant any more things over the weekend, but I’m happy to report that I have some volunteer tomato and basil plants that have just sprouted along side this year’s new tomato crop. Compared to last year, we should have lots and lots more edibles. We still have our old rosemary plants (not pictured), [...]
In this gripping account of the journey of four incredible competitors, one mint plant will rise to fulfill its ultimate destiny. Choose your favorite mint and root for it throughout this 2012 growing season.
It rained CATS AND DOGS most of the weekend. So I got busy building out a whole new set of planter boxes. We still had left-over cedar hanging around the house from when we built the fence, so other than the price of a few boes of fasteners, these planters were built on the cheap!
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This weekend Erin and I did some re-arranging in the back yard. We also made a trip to Ruibal’s and cashed in on our gift card (thank you to my parents). I also made 3 2′x2′ planters using left-over cedar from our fence project.
The pink and yellow benches are from Matt’s El Rancho. [...]
I’m expanding the garden this year. Even though Dallas has barely emerged out of “drought” status, I’m going to tough it out.
