Herself’s Houston Garden

Gardening for fun and wildlife at the edge of Houston’s piney woods

Oh my, what happens to gardeners in cold weather

ljmacphee | January 23, 2008

I had the best of intentions yesterday. I was just going to get a few herbs started for spring.

A few hours later the kitchen looked like this >:(

And although I have a huge pile of garden catalogs I was holding out for my favorite two, the second of which arrived today:

Richters has the most [...]

The wonderful worm

ljmacphee | January 21, 2008

If you do not have enough worms in your garden organic materials are unlikely to break down to a point where your plants can take up the nutrients through their roots. There will be a lack of aeration which encourages fungi and that nasty swamp odor sometimes found in soils down here. Water [...]

January’s Garden

ljmacphee | January 18, 2008

I was very good today, I set aside my garden catalogs and wish lists and went out in the garden with my laptop to take stock of everything. You’ll see comments posted under all the plants I’ve covered so far as to how they have faired this year. I’ll try to do that [...]