Random Rants and Prickly Plants

Spent the morning canning tomatoes. You kinda have to can them, as there's no way you will survive eating them. Really, the human stom...

This year we are having assign absolute plague of toads. Or, as they're called in Texas, toad frogs. Last night, I walked outside to f...

Today I spent the entire morning planting seeds. Okra, Kentucky wonder pole beans, yellow wax beans, royal burgundy beans, cantaloupe, pick...

We've been harvesting this morning. These are the carrots... although they look more like sweet taters. We have heavy clay soil here,...

Bob found a petunia today, growing in the asphalt. If petunias are allowed, they self seed everywhere. These volunteers are rarely as be...

The lantana, a staple of southern gardens, have syarted to put on their show... here's the old fashioned standard... And one of the mo...

Looking back over the last few months, it appears that I've more or less confined myself to shorter posts.  There's a few reasons f...

Goth Bob took a week off. The giant pumpkins developed root rot, which is a big problem here this time of year. One sprout is still fine. ...

I was going to plant some of my cuttings, and Little Goth Bob offered to help, so he harnessed up his trusty turtle and started to haul th...

Hit 90 today, so summer is starting. Got our first afternoon wilt, where the plants get droopy in the heat. Your first instinct is to wate...