Herself’s Houston Garden

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

Is it a fungus among us or a bacteria?

ljmacphee | March 31, 2008

If you have an unhappy plant the first things you should look at are the amount of sun and water it is getting and how much sun and water the plant wants.
If that is fine, check the nutrients in the soil. You can send a soil test off to the state or use one [...]

Tips for tree planting in Houston

ljmacphee | March 27, 2008

Trees can be planted or moved any time of year provided . . . you are going to remember to go out and water them almost daily if we have no rain. If you are not going to go check the soil around your new tree every day for a year, plant it in [...]

200 bags of mulch, you take one down and pass it around

ljmacphee | March 26, 2008

The grass is gone out back, and there’s not much left of it out front. It took dozens of bags of dirt, and 200 bags of mulch, but it’s all done now. ( But a larger percentage of neighbors have decided I’m a bit daffy. They couldn’t believe we didn’t hire someone [...]