http://www.texasveggies.com Veggie Gardening in Plano, Texas Mon, 18 May 2009 20:35:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Having recently moved to a new house, I have an entire new garden to work with. My former residence, a townhouse, had a postage stamp sized yard.  The new place (in Keller, TX) has a good sized yard.  I do have to work around a pool, but even so I have ... http://www.texasveggies.com/2009/05/15/new-house-new-garden/ I threw together this unusually delicious salad last night.   I am certainly no gourmet chef, but I thought it worth sharing:) 1/2 head of red leaf lettuce, chopped 1 tomato, wedged 1/2 mango, diced 1 appled, chopped 1/4 stick of celery, chopped fine 1 clementine, pulled into wedges It tastes great without any dressing.  The Mango and ... http://www.texasveggies.com/2009/05/15/delicious-healthy-salad-recipe/ 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 ... http://www.texasveggies.com/2007/05/14/texas-pure-soil-blend-get-the-dirt/ 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 ... http://www.texasveggies.com/2007/05/12/texas-am-home-gardening-resource/ 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 ... http://www.texasveggies.com/2007/05/10/growth-update/