I plan to talk about the construction of my raised beds in a future post, but today I will address the soil mix I utilized.  The City of Plano, under a contract for the North Texas Municipal Water District, puts out a line of garden mixes under the brand name ‘Texas Pure’.  These products are largely created from recyclable [...] Read more »

In the process of planning my plantings for the year I have done a lot of research on the Internet -  I tend to suffer from Analysis Paralysis!  I would have to say that one of the most useful resources I have come across in my reading is the information provide by Texas A&M. There [...] Read more »

Today I am performing some record keeping, logging some information on the growth in some of my beds so far.  It will be interesting to look back at this over the year and monitor my progress. First of all the tomatoes.  Today I finally put some twine up to help guide the growth of these [...] Read more »

Today I planted my Apache and Arapaho Erect blackberry cells from Stark Bros (3 of each). There are both thornless varieties, and with any luck I will get an extended harvest from having two different breeds. I have planted them in a row of 6, with about 2 feet between each seedling, in the front [...] Read more »

Last night I finally got around to planting the two Blueberry bushes I have had parked in a box in the house for a few days. Both plants are ‘Rabbiteye’ varieties…one is of type Tifblue and one of type Climax.  The theory is that having more than one variety of Blueberry improves the yield, I shall [...] Read more »