Time to get ready to plant spring and summer vegetables....YEEHAW!!! I am officially full of sh*t now....I just got back from Houston Garden Center and I have 320 lbs of composted hummus and cow manure in the trunk of my car. It looks like a freaking lowrider! Renting a tiller at Aztec tomorrow morning to till up my garden and mix in the hummus and manure. Will be planting sometime next week...definitely before one week from Sunday (before March 4th). Tomatoes, cucumbers and eggplant in the garden, and peppers in containers. Remember the rule of thumb in Houston...get your tomatoes in the ground by the first weekend in March, and you will be picking tomatoes Memorial Day weekend. Anybody else getting ready to get their hands dirty with a vegetable garden?
my dad has a green thumb. he's got a greenhouse in Rosharon with all kinds of vegetables. too bad he never passed any of that on to me.
Now that I'm staying home, I plan to get one going, but not this year. My son takes up too much of my time. I help my 90 year old neighbor with hers now. It's great having a neighbor with a good garden and a grapefruit tree.
Well, if I didn't live just outside the loop, and if I had a 10 foot high fence with barbed wire and an electricity shock for intruders, and if I owned a few rottweilers and some submachine guns, then I'd consider it. Believe me....you are only the millionth person I know who has made the suggestion! "Hey man...great tomatoes...how about some ganj next year?"
Does that mean it's time to fertilize? Now that I'm on a single income, I have to do all this stuff myself, but it is therapy. Just ask Denis Leary... His lawn is UNBELEIVABLE!!!
"Only two things that money can't buy, that's true love and homegrown tomatoes." -- The Bad Livers Not going to have a chance to do any gardening this spring, bummer. Anyone who's interested in doing a little manual labor & enjoying homegrown veggies should volunteer at Meredith Garden, Dunlavy & Richmond, next to El Pueblito. Beautiful little park, we grow all kinds of goodness there. Usually there's folks out there working Wed/Sat. Ask for Janet.
I hope I can get into my new house soon enough to plant veggies. I grew some tomatoes and peppers two years ago on my apartment patio. Nothing beats homegrown vegetables.
Ah! You know it's spring when Tex starts talkin' ****! Unfortunately there's still 3 feet of snow at the house in the Catskills! Won't be able to put anyting in the ground until April.
I grow orchids, but they are in potted plants. So not much manual labour involved in taking care of em.
don't want to derail or sound like a know it all but you shouldn't use weed and feed. bad for the groundwater and hurts trees and others. Use Corn gluten meal for a pre emergent for the weeds. Weed and feed is also somewhat ineffective since you shouldn't fertilize until after the 2nd mow. Once the grass is healthy it will choke out weeds. http://www.ktrh.com/pages/gardenline-organiclawn.html http://www.naturalgardeneraustin.com/information/index.html
Gardening sux...I pulled a crap load of weeds in my backyard about 3 weeks ago...Haven't been out there since...
You got it. You, me, RM95, Buck T., etc. need to plan an Astros get-together for sometime in early June and I will load y'all up!
all you tomato farmers who have too many tomatoes come harvest and are sacriligeously feeding the tomatoes to the chickens remember me I'll come get them....and i will make you very very good salsa from your tomatoes to give you...all I want is a small taste of it. seriously. I just want good tomatoes to play with and give it back to you in salsa form. I'll even throw in a jar of some mole that Rick Bayless taught me that is just pure magic. no joke....it is magic...well, except it take 12 hours to make 2 gallons and another 4 hours to prep and can it. so, it's like saying what Yao Ming does is magic....it is hard work.
