1008 Total Blog Posts
2024
March
- Should You Water Your Plants With Ice Cubes or NOT?
- BOTANY: Moss Spores!
- NEW Garden Soil Doesn't Mean BETTER!
January
- Humidity And Houseplants, Growing Joy Podcast with Leslie Halleck
- Why are you FLF’ing yourselves? Fiddle Leaf Figs and WHY They Look So Sad
- TOTIPOTENCY! Begonia Petiole Leaf Cutting
- 2024 Gardening, Landscape, & Houseplant Trends from a Horticulture Expert
- Happy National Houseplant Appreciation Day! Bad Internet Plant ID
- Botany 101: Why are There Seedlings Sprouting From my Tomato?!
- 10 Steps to Grow Tiny Tomatoes Indoors from Seed to Harvest
2023
December
- Botany 101: What is a Perfect Flower?
- Plant Pests: Houseplant Sticky Traps
- Plant ABCs: Venus Orchid
- Do I Need Grow Lights for my Plants and Which Ones Should I Use?
- Plant ABCs: Love in a Mist
November
October
September
August
- Plant Parenting: Overwatered vs Underwatered Plants and How Much Light do They Need?
- Plant Parenting: 7 Common Houseplant Pests and How to Get Rid of Them
July
- Christmas in July: The Love Language of Plants
- Produce Growers: How are consumers feeling about food these days?
June
March
January
2022
2021
September
- IF/THEN COLLECTION at the Dallas Zoo
- Can I Grow Carrots Indoors with Grow Lights?
- Tiny Plants: Codonanthe devosiana
- Indoor Plants: Burgundy Oxalis
- Tiny Plants: Bucephalandra ‘Black Pearl’
- Tiny Plants: Marcgravia umbellata
July
June
- Tiny Plants: Sinningia Propagation
- Tiny Plants: Overwatered Cactus!
- Tiny Plants: Propagation Under Lights
- Tiny Plants: Micro Orchid Dryadella cristata in Bloom!
- Tiny Plants: A Favorite Tiny Succulent
- Tiny Plants: Plant Resurrection!
May
April
2020
November
September
- Gardening Under Lights: Light for Propagating & Growing Tiny Plants
- In the Garden: Zipper Spiders
- Botanical Nomenclature: How do I Correctly Write a Plant Species Name?
July
June
- Plant Parenting: Seed Chitting
- Gardening Under Lights: Use HO T5 Lamps for Seedlings
- Plant Parenting: Tomatoes can be Planted Deep
- Plant Parenting: Thinning Out Seedlings
- Plant Parenting: Use Coir to Increase Humidity for Seeds
- Plant Parenting: How to Know When to Transplant
- Plant Parenting: Herb Stem-Tip Cuttings
- Plant Parenting: Crops Vary in Days-to-Harvest
May
April
March
- SUCCULENTS: Little Prince of Oregon Plant Unboxing!
- Plant Parenting: Seed Sowing Tips
- Plant Parenting: Direct Seeding into the Garden
- Home Harvest: The BEST Roasted Tomato & Rosemary Recipe
January
2019
December
November
- Plant Parenting: Holiday Gift Guide for Plant Lovers!
- Hard Freeze: Should I Cover My Plants?
- Backyard Chicken Stories: Hawk Attack!
October
- Plant Parenting: Cut down on waste by making paper pots!
- Plant Parenting: Seedlings Need Grow Lighting to Flourish
September
- Plant Parenting: Grow Lamps for Plant Cuttings
- National Indoor Plant Week Giveaway - Unboxing!
- Plant Parenting: Air Laying Propagation on Houseplants
- Plant Parenting: Spider Plant Babies!
August
July
- Plant Parenting: New Roots at Plant Wound
- Plant Parenting: Tiny Seeds can be Hard to Collect & Germinate
- Plant Parenting: Cloning Succulents
- Plant Parenting: Some Plants are Female or Male
- Plant Parenting: Some Plant Cuttings Need a Callus
- Plant Parenting: Make Plant Clones From a Mother Plant
- Plant Parenting: Nigella Seed Pods
- Plant Parenting: Make New Succulents from Leaf Cuttings
- Plant Parenting: Grow Peperomia From Leaf Cutting
- Plant Parenting:Tomatoes Grow Air Roots!
- Plant Parenting: Pilea Make Pups Under the Soil
June
- Plant Parenting: Seeds Can Vary Greatly in Size
- Plant Parenting: Recycle Plastic Containers for Plant Cuttings
- Plant Parenting: Flower Pollination
- Plant Parenting: Stretch Your Plant Budget with Seeds!
- Plant Parenting: Rooting African Violet Leaf Cuttings
- Plant Parenting: Seeds Won't Germinate? Take Plant Cuttings Instead.
- Collecting Seeds from Your Garden: Asclepias
- Plant Propagation: Rooting Cuttings in Water
- Plant Parents: Ready to multiply?
March
- Grow Lights: What are Lumens?
- Aphids on Peppers
- Why Aren't My Tomatoes Ripening?
- Grow Cuttings in an Automatic Propagator
- Thermoperiods for Plants in Grow Tents
- Light Photoperiods for Growing Squash Indoors
- Countertop Grow Lights
- Use a Humidity Dome to Root Cuttings
- Some Seeds Need Red Light to Germinate
- Coir for Seed Starting
- Grow Dwarf Squash Indoors
- Full-Spectrum Lamps Emit All Colors of Light
- Powdery Mildew on Indoor Plants
- Tiny Seedlings Need Bright Light
- Fiddleleaf Fig Care
- Grow Kale
- Grow Lamp Distance From Plants
- Ladybug Larvae Eat Whiteflies on Citrus
- Tips for Growing Oregano
- Counter-top Plant Growing Systems
- How to Water Orchids
- LED Grow Lights for Large Houseplants
- Combining Single Spectrum LED Lamps
- Pollination by Hand
February
- Potting Soil for Indoor Gardening
- Salvia benefits from Chilling
- Use Full Spectrum LED Grow Lights for White Light
- How Fast do Seeds Germinate?
- Heat Tolerance for Indoor Crops
- Compressed Seed Pellets for Seed Starting
- Citrus Require Bright Light
- Cannabis Grow Lighting Schedule
- Grow Cilantro Indoors
- Coneflower are Long-Day Plants
- African Violet Leaf Cutting
- Seed Pack Instructions
- Best Temperatures for Dendrobium Orchids
- Temperature and Humidity Levels
- Watts Only Tell You How Much Electricity Your Grow Lamp Uses
- Tips for Growing Cucumbers Indoors
- Trouble Germinating Seeds?
- Temperature Triggers Flowering in Some Plants
- CFLs are Efficient Grow Lights in Small Spaces
- Electronic Ballasts for Grow Lamps
- Lettuce Seeds Need Light to Germinate
- Can You Grow Different Orchid Types Together?
- LED Grow Lamps Can Generate Less Heat
- What are Dual-Band LEDs?
- Flexible LED Grow Light Strips
- Dual Lamp Grow Light Fixture
- Grow Lights: What is Yield Photon Curve?
- Watch Out for Incorrect Grow Lighting Measurements
January
- Direct Sow Lettuce Seeds in Pots
- Metal Halide Grow Lamps Produce Bright White Light
- Multicolor white LED Grow Lights
- Thin Your Seedlings
- Growing Plants Indoors
- What are HPS Grow Lamps?
- Grow More Dill!
- Aphids Thrive in Cool Temperatures
- Nanometer Specific Fluorescent Grow Lights
- Grow Strawberries in Fabric Pots
- Zygopetalum Orchids Bloom Better with Short Days
- Mounting Single Bar LED Grow Lights
- Grow Tents for Indoor Gardening
- Measure Light from Your Grow Lights
- Grow Bonsai Indoors Under Spotlight LED
- What is the Critical Photoperiod for Cannabis?
- What is an Aqua Garden?
- How Much Light Does Thyme Need Indoors?
- Indoor Gardening Spaces
- Direct Seeding Vegetable Crops
- Are Incandescent Lamps Good for Indoor Gardening?
- What Are LED Grow Lights?
- Weltschmerz: It's What's Making You Houseplant Crazy
- Rooting a Succulent Leaf
- Tulip Vernalization for Flowering
- Should You Use Incandescent Bulbs for Plants?
- Can You Grow Citrus Indoors?
- Why Are My Plants Stretching?
- CFLs Work Well in Small Spaces
- Salvia Stem Cutting
- Group Indoor Edibles by Temperature Needs
- Spotlight LEDs for Houseplants & Orchids
2018
December
- Repotting a Seedling
- Custom Kitchen Grow Light Shelves for Herbs
- Cool & Warm Spectrum Fluorescent Grow Lights
- Many Plants are Photoperiodic
- Hydroponic Growing Systems
- Seedlings Will Stretch if Too Far From Light
- Speed up Seedlings with Heat Mats
- Haworthia Houseplant
- How Far From Grow Lights to Place Seedlings
- Where to Take a Plant Cutting
- Ideal Temperatures for Growing Broccoli
- Oedema Blisters on Indoor Pepper Plants
- Biodegradable Seed Pots
- Grow Lights: Choose the Right Quantity and Spectrum of Light
- Coir Mats for Microgreens
- What is Seed Chitting?
- Can You Grow Plants Using Only Red Light?
- CMH Grow Lamps Require Less Electricity
- Orchid Light Requirements
- Grow Rainbow Beets
- Why do Plant Leaves Change Color?
- Carnivorous Plants Need Bright Light Indoors
- Optimal Humidity for Indoor Plants
- African Violet: A Perfect Houseplant
- HPS Grow Lamp Light Spectrum
- Rooting Hormone Speed Up Plant Cuttings
- Three Categories of Plant Photoperiods
- Heat Generated by Grow Lamps
- Choosing Grow Lights
- Catteleya Orchids Require Short Days to Flower
- Snake Plant Thrives in Low Light
November
- Grow Lights: What is Kelvin (K)Temperature?
- Begonia Leaf Plantlets
- Scale Insects on Citrus Plants
- Tomatoes Won't Ripen? It's the Temperature!
- Start Seedlings Under Cool Full-Spectrum Lamps
- Light Requirements for Garlic to Form Bulbs
- Foam Root Plugs for Cuttings
- Grow Lights: Use Timers to Control Photoperiod
- Impact of PPFD Light Levels on Cucumber Plants
- Grow Dwarf Citrus Indoors
- Ferns Growing Under Indoor LEDs
- Grow Mixed Lettuce Indoors
- Grow Tent Considerations
- Grow Mint Indoors
- Can You Grow Citrus from Seed?
- New 2019 David Austin English Roses
- Use Grow Lights to Grow Citrus Fruit Indoors
- Can I Grow 4" Basil Indoors?
- Grow Light Shelf Setup
- How Does Photosynthesis Work?
- Hot Temperatures Can Hinder Plant Growth
- Lamp Wattage and Distance Grow Lights
- Grow Carrots Indoors
- Can You Replace LED Grow Lamps?
- Growing Kale in Cool Temps
- Plantgeek Chic: Gardening Gifts for Plant Lovers
- Grow Arugula
- Countertop Lettuce with Grow Lights
- When to Start Fertilizing Tomatoes
- How Does Blue Light Affect Plant Growth?
- Use Ratchet Cords to Move Grow Lights
- Rooting Plants in Water
October
- Full Spectrum Grow Lights
- Air Cooled Grow Lamp
- Adjusting Height on Grow Lamps Changes Light Delivery
- Rose Stem Cuttings
- How to Harvest & Save Wet Seeds
- Grow Light Wattage per Square Foot
- Grow Lights: What are Facultative Long-Day Plants?
- Collecting & Saving Seeds
- CFLs Are Good Grow Lights for Living Spaces
- Narrow Grow Light Spectrum With LEDs
- Seeding Turnips
- LED Grow Lights Run Quietly
- Grow Vanda Orchids
- Humidity Dome Vent for Seedlings
- What are Chives?
- Do LED Grow Lights Cost More?
- How Light Effects Plant Development
- Orchids on Display
- Lighting Needs Depend on the Type of Plant
- How to Water Indoor Begonia Plants
- LED Zoned Grow Lamps
- Do Your Plants Have Chlorosis?
- Tomato 'Homeslice' for Indoor Garden
- Hydroton Pellets for Hydroponics
- Grow Lights Boost Your Indoor Plant Collection
- Countertop LED Growing Unit
- Vegetable Days to Harvest
- LED Grow Light Tech is Growing
- Fabric Pots for Container Tomato Plants?
- Use Full Spectrum LED Grow Lights for White Light
- Grow Microgreens in a Small Space
- Taking a Begonia Leaf Cutting
September
- HPS Lamps Can Cause Plant Elongation
- White Full Spectrum LED Grow Lights
- How to Plant Bare-root Strawberry in Containers
- Measure Light with Quantum Flux Meter
- Recycle Plastic Garden Pots for Seed Starting
- Mixing Light Spectrums and Influencing Plant Growth
- Seed Stratification for Germination
- How to Fertilize Citrus Trees
- Why Did My Plant Die?
- Problems Growing Cucumbers?
- Small LED lamps work in Home Light Fixtures
- Indoor Seeding Station
- Estimating Grow Lighting Needs
- HO T5 Fluorescents Good for Seedlings
- HPS Grow Lamps Boost Plant Flowering
- Best Grow Lamps for Small Groups of Cannabis Plants
- Grow Lights: What is a Quantum Flux Meter?
- Warm Spectrum Light Triggers Plant Flowering
- CMH Grow Lamps Offer Full-Spectrum Light
- Tips for Growing Peas
- Two Phases of Cannabis Growth
- Keep Air Moving in Your Grow Tent
- Do Plants use UV Radiation?
- What Causes Tomato Early Blight?
- Grow Lights: What is a PAR Meter?
- Digital Ballasts for Grow Lamps
- Indoor Plants Turning Brown? Could be Low Humidity
- How to Seed Microgreens
- Tomato Vines Need Support
- Aquaponic Growing Systems
August
- CFL Grow Lamps
- Use Porous Pots to Grow Orchids Indoors
- When to Transplant Seedlings
- Fixtures for Fluorescent Grow Lights
- LED Growing Units
- Rooting Brugmansia Cuttings
- Miltonia Orchids Can Grow in Low Light
- Grow Basil Indoors
- Seed Peat Pellets
- What are Microgreens?
- Grow Oxalis as a Houseplant
- Transplanting and Potting up Seedlings
- Feed Your Carnivorous plants
- Harvesting Peppers Indoors
- Sooty Mold on Citrus Leaves
- LED Spotlights for Indoor Wall Gardens
- Aerial Roots on Tomato Plants
- Elm Bonsai Need a Dormancy Period
- Roots Forming on a Plant Cutting
- What is a Deep-water Propagator?
- Red Chinese Evergreen Houseplant
- Young Transplants Need Supplemental Light
- Spinach Grows Best in Cool Temperatures
- Don't Let Soil Get Soggy With Cuttings
- Blue Flowering Clematis Vine
- Temperature Range of Citrus
- Strawberry Plant Runner
- When do Orchids Bloom?
- Donkey Tail Spurge
- Grow Ghost Plant Indoors
- Kitchen Grow Light Shelves for Herbs
- Grow Succulents with LEDs
July
- Choose Bush Beans for Indoor Growing
- LED Efficiency Getting Better
- What is a Dormancy in Plants?
- Veggie Harvest
- CMH (LEC) Plug and Play Fixture
- Grow Lights: What are Qualitative and Quantitative Photoperiods?
- Use Yellow Sticky Cards to Control Fungus Gnats
- Grow Kale in Cool Temperatures Indoors
- Reduce Nitrogen Fertilizer When Tomatoes Begin to Flower
- LED Grow Light Bars
- Use CFL Grow Lamps in Home Light Fixtures
- Harvesting Dry Seeds
- Air Cooled Grow Lamps
- Hydroponic System Parts
- Garage Gardens & Grow Tents
- What are Chilling Requirements for Plants?
- Don't Bury Your Seedlings Too Deep!
- Dual-Band LED Produce Pink Light
- Senecio Succulents
- Understand Optimal Temperatures for Indoor Growing
- Different Sizes of Fluorescent Grow Lights
- Red Light Drives Photosynthesis
- Capillary Mats Help With Plant Watering
- Pink Frills Echeveria
- Fluorescent Grow Lights Great for Home Gardeners
- Gardening Under Lights: Is it a SCANDALOUS book?
- Use a Humidity Dome for Seedlings
- Are Unfertilized Female Cannabis Plants More Potent?
- UV-A and UV-B light
- Light-emitting Plasma LEP Grow Lamps
- Grow Phalaenopsis Orchids
June
- Grow Lithops, Living Stones, Indoors
- Grow Cymbidium Orchid Indoors
- Hens and Chicks Succulents Indoors
- Grow Ruffled Echeveria Indoors
- Cacti Are Succulents Too
- Grow Tent Sizing
- Hawthoria, Low-light Houseplants
- Grow Pony Tail Palm Indoors
- Grow Aloe Vera Indoors
- Can Succulents Grow in Low Light?
- Overwintering Succulents Indoors
- A Blooming Sea Urchin Cactus
- Grow Echeveria Indoors
- Reflective Wall Covering for Grow Lamps
- Growing Indeterminate Tomatoes Indoors
- Dual Arc Plant Grow Light
- Ladybug Larvae are Whitefly Predators
- Double-Ended HPS Grow Lamp
- Sansevieria the Perfect Houseplant for Low Light
May
January
2017
October
September
August
- MOON CARROT: I’m freaking out over this plant!
- New Plants: Keep your eyes out for these new silver beauties!
- Pilea peperomioides plugs have arrived!
July
June
April
March
January
2016
December
September
- Worms on the Ferns!
- Stunning & Stylish Iceland Poppies
- Whiteflies in the Garden
- Time to Plant Clematis
August
June
- Fig Newton Trees
- Lots of Rain equals Lots of Pests!
- Basil: Plant and Grow Your Own Pesto!
- Passion Flower: Prized Garden Possession
May
April
March
- Get Ready for Hummingbirds in the Garden
- Pretty Peonies
- Fresh in White
- Give Your Trees Some TLC
- Mason Bees are Powerful Pollinators
- March: It’s tomato time in Texas
- When it Comes to Strawberries, Sometimes Bare is Better
February
- Killing Plants Like a Pro
- Killing Plants Like a Pro
- Fresh Asparagus Anyone?
- Time to Prune Fruit Trees in Texas
January
2015
November
October
August
- Texas Sage: Who wore it best?
- Beyond the Poinsettia
- Milkweed Tiger Moth Caterpillars
- Smithsonian Gardens
June
May
April
- AAS launches herbaceous perennial trial
- Green Industry: Are You Helping or Hurting Your Marketing Efforts?
March
2014
December
November
October
September
- Garden Look Nasty Post-Summer? Yep, Time to Refresh!
- Cascabela: A Tropical Texas Beauty!
- Plant Irises in Fall for Spring Blooms!
- Winning Summer Plant Duo
August
July
June
- Cocktail Gardening: Blackberry Mint Margarita
- Tomato Time: What to do with all your tomatoes?
- Veggie Garden: The Summer Solstice Harvest is ON!
- Fresh Blackberries: It’s PIE season!
May
April
- Nikki Blogs: Don’t feel bad, I kill things, too!
- “Hey, can you help me find a home for my rooster?” No, no I can’t and won’t.
- Garden Tour: What’s in bloom?
March
- White Flowers: Sophisticated and Serene
- Honey Bee Swarm
- Gardening No-No: Planting tulips in rows.
- Cocktail Gardening: First Day of Spring Spritzer
- Tulips are Blooming!
February
January
2013
November
- Bulbine: This tough Aloe relative just loves to bloom!
- Houseplants: Purify the air for a healthy home!
October
September
- Let your melons go to seed…and see what you get!
- Chili Tepin is rockin’ it…
- It’s Decorative Gourd Time!
- Evergreen Wisteria
August
July
- Plant Nutrient Profile: Potassium
- Using Coffee Grounds in the Garden
- Plant Nutrient Profile: Phosphorus
- Plant Nutrient Profile: Nitrogen
June
- Lavender that thrives in North Texas
- Malabar Spinach: Heat tolerant leafy green
- Our Favorite Re-Seeders
May
- Video: Black Diamond Crapemyrtles
- Food Flub: Cross pollination can be terrifying!
- Cool Ideas for Spring Containers
- Great gifts for a gardening mom!
- Sunset Magazine Garden Photo Contest
- Crape Myrtle ‘Black Diamond’
April
- Everything Gardens - A Very Useful Permaculture Principle
- Why you should NOT be planting Impatiens this year…
March
- Garden Chat on Ken Druse’s Real Dirt Podcast
- Spring Blooms in the Garden
- Natural Mosquito Prevention INSTEAD of Spraying!
- Day Length Effects Egg Laying Rate
- Arugula in Bloom
- It’s Rose Time!
February
- Bulb blooms are early this year…
- It’s Tulip Time in Texas!
- Roly Poly Destruction! Or, what’s eating my pansies?
- Time to prune your roses in DFW!
- Fruit Trees for North Texas & Chilling Hours
January
2012
December
November
- Holiday Gardening: Tips for using greenery
- The Prettiest Pansies
- Green Friday
- Black Friday? No thanks…I do “Green Friday”!
- Force bulbs indoors now for the holidays!
- Tiny Terrariums!
- Winter Gardening Tip: Force Your Bulbs Now!
- Garden Giveaway: Win a free in-depth garden consultation!
- Wordless Wednesday: Peony ‘Misaka’
- Want to tip toe through your own tulips?
October
- Want to grow fall and winter vegetables?
- October Fine Gardening
- Fancy Bulb Forcing
- Harvesting Mushrooms
- Trailing Rosemary Blooming Gangbusters!
- Time to plant: What can go into the garden right now?
- My Garden Bottle Tree
- Edible Dallas & Fort Worth: The Cookbook!
- Chihuly at The Dallas Arboretum
- Love me some Cardoon!
- Big Bend Grasshopper
- Time to Plant Iceland Poppies!
- Big Bend Journey
September
August
July
- I know it’s 106 F degrees…but I’m still planting.
- Time to start planning your fall garden!
- Agave Takes the Heat!
- Harvest in 100 degrees!
- Monsanto genetics “trespassing” onto organic farms.
- Rico Suave: Yes, my favorite Silkie is a BOY.
- Almost time to harvest my ‘Faerie’ melons!
- Reblooming Iris ‘Smell the Roses’
- Summer watering tips & Time to plant fall tomatoes!
- Rose Rosette Disease
- Dallas Observer: Dallas People 2012, The Chicken Quixote
June
- Time to plant fall tomatoes!
- Tomatoes not setting fruit, or ripening?
- Welcome to the New Website & Blog!
- Mulching, Mulching, Mulching!
- Dallas Backyard Chicken Sale, 6/16/12
- Harvesting ‘Golden Mama’ Tomatoes
- Blue Agave as Living Fences in Ecuador
May
- Chinese Garden in Portland, Oregon.
- Have you harvested your garlic?
- Time to harvest Blackberries!
- Urban Backyard Beekeeping
- Backyard Bees!
- Wordless Wednesday: Farmer’s Market in Banos, Ecuador
- Whirling Butterflies…
- Start Your Fall Tomato Seeds!
- Saving Arugula and Dill Seeds…
- Fragrant Echinacea
- Backyard Chicken Sale
- Diorama-O-Rama: Leslie of the Amazon!
April
- New Dallas Watering Restrictions
- Strawberry ‘Fragoo’ Series
- Passiflora incarnata, Maypop!
- ‘Changsha’ Tangerine in Texas
- New Baby Silkie Update…
- Easter Gardening Radio Chat…Rabbits, Seeds and more!
March
- In Dallas? Get those tomatoes in the ground!
- Growing Vegetables in Containers…
- A few of my spring bloomers…
- Gardening Tool Envy…
- Ready for Roses?
February
- Baby Silkie Update…
- Baby Silkie Update…
- Ready…set…plant tomatoes!
- Chicken Drama…Hawk attacks and abandoned silkies…
- RIP Phyllis…you rocked.
- All the grass is gone…
- Spring Fever…new beds and seed potatoes!
January
2011
December
- December in Texas…what to plant now.
- Live in Texas? Plant in Fall and Winter…reap the benefits next Summer.
- Camellia ‘Setsugekka’
November
- New City of Dallas Watering Restrictions. No need to panic.
- Obama’s Christmas Tree “Tax”. Come on people.
October
- Get that pesto made!
- The Perfect Planting Weather
- Stop gardening for summer in Texas…I’m over it!
- Looking for a heat and drought tolerant perennial?
- Woolly Pockets planted up!
- Vertical Garden Planters
September
- Pansies and violas are here!
- Off to True Value in PA…
- Rain Lillies Blooming!
- Ugly Garden Contest Winner!
- FINALLY, the new baby chicks have moved outside…
- Fall is here! Time to plant…
August
- Ugly Garden Contest, Dallas!!
- Fall is for Planting!
- Off to Ecuador!
- Proper watering in this Texas heat!
July
- Baby chicks first visit outside…
- Honey extraction…first year
- Off to harvest backyard honey…
- Tough Summer Bloomers: Cone Flowers
- Build it…and they will come…
- Tough Summer Bloomers: Pride of Barbados
- Tomato ‘Sapho’...still harvesting!
- Cute baby chicks…My July 4th babies
- OFA- Ohio Short Course
- Last Weekend to Plant Tomatoes in DFW
- Surprise!! I’m a new mom again!
- Update on the Beehives…
- Rose ‘Easy Does It’
June
- Time to plant fall harvest tomatoes…
- I can’t help but be sad when I lose a chicken…
- Dallas…Do you have an UGLY garden?!
- Dramatic Pepper
- Trouble with Tomato Fruit Set this Spring?
- New Echinacea in bloom…
- First hummingbird sighting…
May
- Plant the Town Pink Event! 6/4/11
- Backyard Chickens 101 Class 5/20
- Heirloom Vegetable Class 5/21
- Inspecting a beehive…
- Meet the chicks…finally named them…
- The Beehives move home…
- Inspecting my beehives…
April
- Tough Texas Perennials
- Baby Chicks…week 3 video
- Baby Chicks…week 2-3
- Baby Chicks…week 1
- First fruits of the spring…
March
- North Haven Gardens spot on Dig In TV
- Streetside spring blooms…
- Planting Fruitopia…
- Containers with black petunias…
- Beehive project continued…
February
January
2010
December
November
- Bill S.510 Food Safety Act is BAD.
- Armchair Urban Farming…
- Almost Tulip Planting Time…
- DFW, today is our first average frost date!
- Let the new garden begin…
- Time to plant fruit trees…and berries!
- Salvia ‘Wendy’s Wish’
October
- Chicken Portraits…Oh you KNOW I’m doing this!! LOL
- Seed some lettuce now folks!
- Backyard Chickens 101
- Live in Texas? Time to plant some bulbs!
- New ‘Plentifall’ trailing pansies..Oooooo, aaaahhhhh!
- Time for Tulips!
- Time to plant Iceland Poppies!
September
- Herbalist Guild Symposium
- Chicken Sale and Fall Programs at North Haven Gardens
- New Asian Jasmine ‘Snow-N-Summer’
- Now is the time to plant cool season vegetables
August
- Yay for homegrown fresh eggs!
- Upcoming Class: Vegetable Gardening 101 at North Haven Gardens
- Iris mystery solved!
- Garlic Chives…edible ornamental that takes the heat!
- Off to IGC in Chicago…Then TNLA in San Antonio…
- Echinacea ‘Mac N’ Cheese’
- Dismantling the Vegetable Garden…Sniff, Sniff…
- Fabulous new Echinacea
- Almost time to start fall vegetable seeds…
July
- Pistils Nursery, Portland OR
- Bodacious petunias! Bauman Farms, Portland OR
- New compact tomato varieties
- Funky new African Violet…‘Neverfloris’
- Chinese Garden, Portland, Oregon
- Travelin’
- Many people using bat houses to fight against mosquitos | WCBD
- Next Class: Vegetable Gardening 101
- Plant Fall Tomato Transplants Now…
June
May
- Time to harvest garlic!
- Poor Einstein…she’s been henpecked, literaly…
- Phyllis has gone broody…
- Purty Peaches…
- The Succulent Project, Stage 2
- Organic Gardening and Farming Magazine
- Rough Earth Snakes in the Garden
- How do you like your ‘Sapho’ tomatoes?
- Oakleaf Hydrangea blooming away…
- Still harvesting lettuce…
- The first Nasturtium blooms…
- Is it strawberry time or what?!
- Bacykard Chicken Programs at NHG This Weekend
- Proper Watering Techniques Q & A
- First blooms on the Clematis ‘Ramona’
- Rose ‘Crown Princess Margareta’
April
- The roses are going nuts!
- Aren’t flowers fantastic? Blue Spiderwort in the shade garden…
- Ajuga ‘Catlin’s Giant’
- Fava Beans
- Iris ‘Orange Glaze’
- Naked Gardening Day, 2010
- Square Foot Gardening Soil Mix…Do I think it works for Texas?
- Earth Day Program: Bountiful Backyard Gardens
- More Eggs!!!
- Backyard Chicken Keeping Program, Saturday, Dallas
- First roses of the season and other blooming beauties…
- Japanese Maple ‘Oshi Beni’ seedlings…
- Chihuahua meets chicken…lol
- Backyard chickens, Dallas
- Asparagus…
- What to plant right now!
March
- Tomato ‘Sapho’
- From spring, to snow, and back again…
- Amaryllis ‘Chico’
- Mmmm, deviled eggs…
- Urban Chicken Article, Edible Dallas
- Frogs, Foam and Fuel: UC Researchers Convert Solar Energy to Sugars
- ‘Sapho’ Tomatoes
- Just a few shots from a lovely spring day in the garden…
- Vegetable Gardening 101 Class
- First poppy of the season…
- The cool thing about Calendula seeds…
- Peaches are blooming!
- Edible Dallas article on urban chickens
- Mason Bees
- Texas All Garden Show
February
- ‘Easy Does it’ 2010 AARS Rose…I’m drooling…
- So you wanted to know which tomato variety this was??
- What wood is best to use for raised beds?
- Homemade Ginger Ale…mmmmmm
- Happy Snow Day from Dallas!
- First signs of spring…now signs of winter…
- Signs of Spring…
- Broccoli Buds…
- Cool Season Herbs to Plant Now
January
- My Upcoming Gardening Classes
- Iceland Poppies!
- Rediscovering Barley
- The January thaw…what to plant!
- I’m on day 3 of my L.E.A.P diet…
- Lost Hen in Dallas!
- Time to start vegetable seeds indoors!
- Planting Bulbs in Your Lawn
- Come to my Veggie Gardening class, Thursday 1/14
- Time to plant onions in Texas!
- It’s a five egg day!
- My poor chickens…it’s so cold!
- Upcoming hard freeze…what to do?
- My Favorite Tulips and how to plant them…
- Time to plant your tulips!
2009
December
- More photos from the Amazon, Peru
- Back from the Amazon, Peru…
- Too much lettuce?
- I’m off to Peru folks…
- Question #2: What is the best raised bed soil mix?
- Question #1 of the day: My veggies aren’t ripening on time!
- Question of the day: Is my lettuce safe in this winter weather?
November
- The great vegetable giveaway…
- Who is laying which eggs?
- Bees on the Passion Vine
- So I can’t eat tomatoes anymore…Kill me now!
- A morning bouquet of roses…
- Einstein is a Houdan…not a Polish…a chicken surprise…
- ‘Four Seasons’ Viola…My new fave…
- Go ahead….feed that orchid addiction…
- Chicken Pox…my poor babies…
- What to plant right now…
- Chasing Butterflies…
- Strawberry Pots…protect for winter
October
- Ode to Rhino Beetle…
- Fall Tomatoes…
- Don’t forget…Botany of Desire on PBS tonight!
- Time to make pepper relish…
- It’s a Pesto Party!
- Going to Peru…
- New Magazine: Urban Farm
- Morning coffee malfunction…
- Fresh Peppers = Skillet stuffed peppers for dinner…
- Time to Plant: Garlic
- Wet Chicken: Have you ever seen anything sadder?
- Fall harvest of beautiful beans…
- Passion flower - Passiflora violacea
- Chickens are starting to earn their keep…
- What to plant this weekend…
- Dallas Orchid Show this Weekend…don’t miss!
- Chickens in the news…again…
- Michael Pollan’s Botany of Desire on PBS
- Harvesting fall vegetables
- Off to Salt Lake City for True Value
September
- Organic chicken feed
- It’s Midnight…and you’re still at work…
- Praying Mantis
- Time to Plant: Broccoli, lettuce, fava bean seeds
- “Think” KERA podcast show on chickens
- Garden Center Magazine Sustainable Living Article
- I’ll be on “Think” on KERA 90.1 tomorrow, Tuesday at 1pm
- Chickens are laying…more new eggs!
- Wordless Wednesday: Can’t talk, eating weeds.
- Time to Plant: Bulbs!
- Malabar Spinach
- Baby bean plants…
- Rain lilies blooming…
- First Eggs!! Look what little Einstein did!
- Chicken window…
- Chicago…Independent Garden Show (IGC)
- Garden & Gun…
- Time to Plant…Naked Ladies
- Time to Plant…fall seeds
August
- Backyard Chicken Sales at North Haven Gardens are back on!
- Aggie Cotton in bloom…
- Butterfly Ginger is blooming…
- Hummingbirds at the door…
- House Bill HR 2749 - the Food Safety Enhancement Act of 2009
- Fall Veggie Garden Class, NHG today, 1pm
- August Garden Lovelies…
- Black Bumblebee…
- Hummingbird sightings!
- When you forget to harvest your okra…
- Tomato hornworm….that’s some meaty larvae…
- Carolyn…my cucumbers and melons cross pollinated…so, cumelons or melumbers?
- Starting the fall veggie seeds…
- Chicken bribery…mealworms.
- Mad City Chickens Premiere, Dallas…
- Time to start fall vegetable seeds…
- Julie, Julie, oh where art thou Julie? AWOL
- Welcome to growLively
- Fall Veggie Gardening Class at NHG August 12th
- A bright spot in the August garden…Philippine Lily
July
- Viva la Chickens!
- OFA - Ohio Short Course
- Einstein…chicken baby is growing up…
- Cucumber Cornucopia
- Nursery Pot Recycling Program at NHG
- Summer Veggie Harvest…
- Mad City Chickens…Texas premiere!
- Nikki’s Tomatoes: Round 2
- Urban Chickens…see, I’m not the only crazy one…lol
June
- Why your tomatoes arent producing fruit, or aren’t ripening…
- Green Dallas…should mean more than it does…
- Veggies that don’t fry in 103 degree heat…
- Dallas Climate….why your tomatoes won’t fruit in summer…
- New Chickens…
- Hmmmm, something smells fowl…
- The Fabulous Finished Chicken Coop…
- New Chicken Coop Under Construction…
- Summer Garden Blooms…
- Goodbye Scooter…
- The Strawberries Speak for Themselves…
- Chickens in the garden…strike a pose…
- Nikki Found the Camera
- Aaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhh!!!! :)
- I’m going to sail my zucchini boat away….
- Chicken Noodle Fun…
- Nikki Teases You with Talk of Potatoes
May
- Gratuitous garden photos…
- Lovely dinner salad…
- Squash and wine…that’s it…
- Summer vegetables…sweet spot
- Fyi..JULIE is the chicken lady…
- Some tips on pruning…“confused”
- Question of the day: Did I kill my cucumbers with kindness?
- Garden Tour May 2009…
- Yard of the Month…this one’s for you Julie…
- Garden Tour…
- All Growns Up
- Novels starring gardens
- Yes, more chicken pictures…
- Here comes trouble
- Resurrection…Julie’s Sorrel…(not spinach)
- Stone’enge…
- Garden Defenders…
- Backyard Progress…
- I swear…chickens are hip…
- Crazy chickens…
- April blooms…
April
- Potato Bag Update…
- New Bed Update…
- No one said chickens were rocket scientists…
- Earth Day Veggie Garden Goings On…
- Help me name my new chicky babies…
- Chicken Escape…and the Destruction that Ensued.
- My Penchant for Peach…
- Peony popping up…
- Rose Petals…
- New York Times Starter Garden Series…
- Lovely Japanese Maple…
- Backyard Bed Continued…
- New Backyard Bed…
- Spring Blooms
- Chicken Run…
March
- Spanish Bluebells
- The Chickens are Here!
- Millions of Peaches, Peaches for Me…
- Rolling in Fava Beans…
- I Love Plant-Geek Gifts!
- Front Yard Veggie Beds…
- The Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009
- Yay for snakes!
- Tomato ‘Golden Mama’
- Pretty as a peach…
- Patio update…for Caro
- Fantastic Mustard Green…
- Prime Real Estate…
February
January
2008
November
October
September
August
July
- Ginkgos for your ears…nothing to do with gardening…
- Yay! Hummingbird sighting!
- Ya love it or ya hate it…
- I crack myself up…
- Pickling Habaneros…Wear Gloves
- Gotta make some pesto…
- Super squash
- Tasty Tomatoes…
- Shameless plug…
June
May
- My Lady Friends…
- Horseradish Hot Head…
- It’s almost summer…
- How dare they
- Veggie update
- Chaos in the garden…
April
- Ah, the scent of spring…
- Bye Bye Bulbs…
- Trip to Antique Rose Emporium
- Spring Color
- Yay Spring…
- Seedlings…