Gardening in Austin

Chocolate Sprinkles Tomato (bought on a whim from Home Depot):  type: chocolate cherry.  harvest started 5/15/2021. total tomatoes: 107. Pla...

Gird your loins, kids - the Sunshine Community Plant sale is coming your way in a few short weeks! http://sunshinecommunitygardens.org/

 Woo-ee. It has been a crazy windy few days down here in Austin.  It did blow in a cool front, but, dear lord, did it blow.  I had empty pla...

 So one of the weird things is that once I start working on something, I'll either let it sit for like a decade, or I'll get it done...

 I tend to let my paper wasps have free reign of the yard. I currently have at least 5 different nests, and, as long as they don't sting...

 A few weeks ago, Shawn brought up "the hideous bed." Again. I call it "the hideous bed," not because it's hideous, ...

  When we moved to this house in 2005, there were two Arizona Ash trees in the back yard.  The first one died a few years after we moved in ...