http://www.blanco-texas.com/mcthyme-traveler.html en-us Sun, 4 May 2008 12:09:24 -0500 Sun, 4 May 2008 12:09:24 -0500 Easy Blogs ( http://www.easyblogs.com ) http://www.blanco-texas.com/mc200805.html#e30 http://www.blanco-texas.com/mc200805.html#e30 Sun, 4 May 2008 12:09:24 -0500 If your plants are puny or infested with bugs, those are signs of a deeper problem you need to remedy, rather than just spraying the fungus or the bug.For example: Pill bugs and slugs are symptoms of too much moist, rotten material. Grasshoppers are a sign... http://www.blanco-texas.com/mc-gardeners-zones.html http://www.blanco-texas.com/mc-gardeners-zones.html Tue, 29 Apr 2008 11:38:07 -0500 In this era of global fluctuation, gardeners across the earth are seeing changes in their normal Climate Zones. It's really a challenge for us here in Blanco County! Our property is a small lot that seems to have 3 separate climate zones, 3 separate ecosystems... http://www.blanco-texas.com/mc200804.html#e28 http://www.blanco-texas.com/mc200804.html#e28 Sat, 19 Apr 2008 19:24:10 -0500 Flowers, flowers everywhere, with billions of butterflies in contrasting colours. It smells as good as it looks, too! The brush piles from last winter's cedar chopping have become Wren apartments, they are fixing them up for their kids, who are just now... http://www.blanco-texas.com/mc-drought-gardening.html http://www.blanco-texas.com/mc-drought-gardening.html Tue, 26 Feb 2008 21:57:43 -0500 February 25, Central Texas, 80 degrees in the shade and it's barely past noon! Dry as a bone, no rain in sight, the Blanco River has stopped running over the spillway, and my lettuce has bolted and gone to seed from the heat before we even got to eat any!... http://www.blanco-texas.com/mc200801.html#e26 http://www.blanco-texas.com/mc200801.html#e26 Wed, 30 Jan 2008 10:06:30 -0500 Invasive weeds are some of my favourite foods. Who can beat all the lambsquarters, parsley, or garlic you can eat, for nothing except beating around the bush. My Rezolution this year is to battle rampant growth, the only garden problem we have since the... http://www.blanco-texas.com/mc-forever-autumn.html http://www.blanco-texas.com/mc-forever-autumn.html Sun, 27 Jan 2008 15:03:13 -0500 The warming of the globe is having strange effects on gardens around the world. People up north are amazed at the lengthening of the balmy days of Autumn, and are quite unprepared for the rapid advance of Spring planting season. Storms of all types seem... http://www.blanco-texas.com/mc200711.html#e24 http://www.blanco-texas.com/mc200711.html#e24 Fri, 30 Nov 2007 16:58:51 -0500 In this season of thanks, let us remember to appreciate all the things we do not have. No war in the immediate neighborhood, no smog, no gangs patrolling the park, no scary cops, no plagues, no drought, no flood, no nuthin'.I, for one, have no more heavy landscaping... http://www.blanco-texas.com/mc200710.html#e23 http://www.blanco-texas.com/mc200710.html#e23 Mon, 15 Oct 2007 20:48:37 -0500 Ah, mulch! The gardener's best friend. My sinuses worst enemy. Raking, my favourite (not). Leaf mold, hay seeds, lichen spores and old mushrooms wafting on the breeze.....there's that Zen trick to raking without raising dust, given a fair wind, but... http://www.blanco-texas.com/mc200708.html#e22 http://www.blanco-texas.com/mc200708.html#e22 Fri, 31 Aug 2007 09:05:31 -0500 Here are some clips from posts to the GardeningOrganically group at Yahoo. Everyone should join this group, they are exceedingly polite and knowledgable, you will learn many words of wisdom. The moderators are from Texas, too, which comes in handy during... http://www.blanco-texas.com/mc200707.html#e21 http://www.blanco-texas.com/mc200707.html#e21 Tue, 31 Jul 2007 09:29:44 -0500 In 30-something years of trying to reap as much as possible from the most primitive of garden sites, it seems to me that the best solution to the Bug Problem is to give them plenty of their natural, native food to eat. Which means letting the weeds grow EVERYWHERE...