Monthly to-do list.
My Winter garden had a bit of a setback, so there isn’t anything growing. I’m currently working on getting the soil built up and taking care of a Gopher/Vole issue. The following is a to do list of what I would be doing had everything gone as planned. December is a busy holiday season, and […]
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I’ve decided to post my monthly entry to The Overleaf Chronicles to maintain continuity. October was a month of disappointment for me in the garden. I prepped the beds and direct sowed seeds for many of the plants I hoped to grow in my fall/winter garden. Two weeks in I was seeing some sprouts, but
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In October the first cool fronts start to work their way into southeast Texas, and the pumpkins appear in bins next to the watermelon bins at the grocery store. It may be cool today, but hot weather isn’t far away, and can rear it’s head at any time. Still, for me October is the beginning
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Dodgeball Hurricane…This past week the Houston area briefly flirted with two unusually closely spaced hurricanes. An odd part of living along the Gulf Coast is our tacit love/hate relationship with tropical storms and hurricanes. We eye them out in the Gulf with all the wariness of a gaggle of nerdy kids in a dodgeball game.
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August is here, and with it some of our hottest weather. It’s also a very dry month, and unless we have a tropical storm or hurricane, we will have to rely on scattered thunderstorms until late September or October brings showers with the first cool fronts. The heat of summer is the deep south’s answer
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July is probably the second most consistently hot and dry month in the southeast Texas growing season. August being the first, with September running a close third. Like the old saying goes, “It’s not the heat, it’s the humidity,” or in our case, often a LACK of humidity, or to be more accurate, rain. While
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