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2025 Garden Advice

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Yes, it’s true! The 2025 garden kickoff has begun. Being in North Texas we are still experiencing some cooler weather but we don’t have any snow on the grown and hoping for no deep freeze weather to hit. We do a lot of raised garden beds here so cleaning up the beds from the fall
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Amending New Garden Area With Rabbit Manure

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Are you adding a new garden area or just looking to improve the soil in your existing garden spot? We are adding another garden area and looking for ways to amend the soil. One of the things we use is animal waste, mostly rabbit and chicken manure. We work hard to use chemical free fertilizers
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Doing Chores In The Snow

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It’s not often that we are doing chores in the snow but this last week in North Texas found us doing just that. Since we have been here for a few years we did have almost everything we needed so the animals weren’t affected that much… besides the chickens pouting in their coop because they
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The Dream of a Seed

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For those of us in Northern Hemisphere most of us are thinking of winter gardens with a dream of a seed in our heads. That is where it all begins! What can we grow with a shorter amount of daylight and with winter improaching upon us. For me that means a lot of root veggies
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cantaloupe & watermelon patch

Benefits of a Fall Garden

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Lack of Heat & Bugs in the Fall Garden The benefits of a fall garden for one is the lack of bugs and heat. In North Texas both are an extreme problem during the summer. With the hundred degree weather right now and most of my summer garden dead I am looking forward to cooler
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Gardening With Less Water

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Book review of gardening with less water, low-tech, low cost techniques, use up to 90% less water in your garden.

The Story of a Seed

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This is the story of a seed. How it sprouts up to be a seedling and then into a grown plant.

The Best DIY Soil Sifter

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Our first #soil sifter. If you are tired of dealing with large particles in your soil this little #DIY soil sifter is the answer. We use it for creating a more beneficial seed starting soil. I'm sure we will use it in the #garden more this summer for a multitude of reasons. Just remember it doesn't have to be big nor expensive.

Beautiful Garden Seeds

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Garden Seeds I dream about beautiful garden seeds do you? It’s in the air, do you feel it? There is frost in the forecast and a tingle in my fingers. The garden catalogs are here and decisions are being made. Well, at least for the most part, I’m not making any decisions. Like I mentioned
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New beginnings

New Beginnings

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New beginnings in 2023 bring to me a new home, new garden, and new animals. It could be the best thing that happens to me or the worse.