After two summers battling the elements and losing, I think I’m finally starting to get it. If you want to garden in Texas, you need to take advantage of the three seasons that actually produce vegetables–fall, winter, and spring–and go on vacation for the fourth, the brutally long and hot summer. In the past the last thing I wanted to do on a hot August day was start a garden, but this year I sucked it up and did it.
Much of the morning last Sunday I spent making these raised beds. The rest of the day I spent filling them with Hill Country Garden Soil from the Natural Gardener. On Monday I planted peas and beans; on Tuesday, summer squash. I’ll sow the seeds for the rest of the garden later this month: cabbage, spinach, lettuce, carrots, and Swiss chard.
Tags: fall garden
September 4, 2009 at 1:24 pm |
Hi Storms Reback, what’s up? It’s impossible to find your email around here. No “contact me” button? Oh well.
I work for the city of South Burlington, VT, and we’re putting together a website all about how homeowners can better manage stormwater runoff from their houses. Rain barrels are one part of this. I liked your photo of your rain barrel, and I wanted to know if I could use it, giving proper credit of course. I know, there are lots of pictures of rain barrels out there, but I liked yours the best. I can’t say why. Anyway, I hope you get back to me soon.
Great website by the way, and a fantastic project.
October 7, 2009 at 7:58 pm |
i enjoy visiting your site to follow the progress. we live in miami florida today. we meet here a ltiitle over 2 years ago and have found that the city is a third world country/city,
i am a general contractor (commercial). we just moved to a house that offers enough sunchine o put in our sqft garden.
neighbors are not sure about us but that makes it all the better.
My 15 year old son lives in austin wells branch. i lived in austin for a few years in the 90′s. My wife thiks austin is the coolest city that she has visited in the US. well maybe new orleans.
keep up the green work
October 26, 2009 at 7:28 am |
Same thing happened to us this year, we lost almost everything in the drought. We are just south of the 183/MoPac crossover in Austin, and the possums invaded this year too looking for food and water, handily supplied by my chickens. We’ve trapped 6 possums in the last month alone, and relocated them to wilder sections of Shoal Creek to continue eating the bugs and things.
Thanks to the rain, we’ve gotten back on track with the gardens, the greens are producing well, and the Brassicas are all up and ready to be transplanted. Keep Austin green!