It just keeps raining. This has some benefits.
Continue reading “05/26/2025 water season”Goodbye, bermudagrass
Hello, new beds and more buffalograss! Our plan has always been to gradually decrease the mowing area of the yard. Ideally before our third-hand ancient lawn mower dies. Which we successfully sold in late 2024. This post covers from 2024 to 2025, our first year without the lawn mower.
In conjunction with putting in the first of four new raised beds, we also determined we will move the Salvia greggii in front of the new raised beds so we stop having to trim them mid-summer to be able to access the vegetables in the existing raised beds. You’ve seen them in the new place in recent posts.
We also replaced all the grass and non native forbs between the Salvias and the curb with buffalograss. Since the salvias get a good 3 ft wide, this will leave a path about 4-5 ft wild at the curb for us to roll the garden cart along and people to get out at the curb if needed.
The triangles between the existing edging and the new raised beds have become beds with Antennaria (pussytoes), sensitive briar (Mimosa), Baptisia bracteata, and gramagrass.
We will probably keep irises by the mailbox. Since essentially no pollinators visit them, it makes the mailbox extra safe for any postal people who might have bee allergies or fears thereof. however, we’ve since dug them out and replant them to ensure it doesn’t become a refugia for Bermudagrass to attempt to re-colonize the yard.
Continue reading “Goodbye, bermudagrass”Tomato season
All seedlings have been diligently protected from Shackleton the cat this year. We do not trust him after last year’s grazing incident.
Continue reading “Tomato season”02/16/2025 prairie grazing!
Briar likes to eat some of our prairie grasses sometimes, she’s no herd of bison. This winter we’ve been meaning to escalate into a full trim. The weather today was crisp, clear, and not too windy sheltered by the house, so we did the cuts! This is in hopes that we’ll get more species from past seeding events coming up.
Continue reading “02/16/2025 prairie grazing!”12/14/2024 plants in their home
Mom and Dad kindly invited me to visit Chickasaw National Recreation Area with them this weekend. The cats get a rest from Briar’s ideas.
Continue reading “12/14/2024 plants in their home”06/11/2024 cabbage invasion
Paula chose to harvest our two red cabbages this evening. the little one weighs 227 grams and the big one weighs 480 grams.
Continue reading “06/11/2024 cabbage invasion”05/23/2024 time off
I’m taking today and tomorrow off so I hope I can look around the garden a little more.
Continue reading “05/23/2024 time off”05/11/2024 supposed to rain tonight sadly
Why sadly? Well, it’s good for the new plants I just put out because the forecast is pretty firm about rain, but it’s going to obscure possibilities for more of a rare G5 geomagnetic storm that resulted in the aurora borealis visible FROM OUR DRIVEWAY. Check out the view last night at Texas home on Mom’s blog too!
Continue reading “05/11/2024 supposed to rain tonight sadly”05/06/2024
Hanging out with the baby plants!
Continue reading “05/06/2024”04/21/2024 cat crime
Last night I opened up the heating mat area to check on tomatoes and peppers who are indoors a few days while it’s chilly out.
Continue reading “04/21/2024 cat crime”