Category Archives: Gardening

February 12, 2020, Rooted 18 Fig Cuttings

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I ordered a ‘starter pack’ of fig cuttings from Chris in the North Texas Vegetable Gardeners facebook group.  She sent me some bonus cuttings and I was scrounging around for things to plant them in.  To get them to grow roots, I wrapped the tops in parafilm, made a fresh cut 1/4″ from the lowest bud, cut a strip of bark away from the area near the bottom bud, added some rooting hormone, and stuck it in a tree pot filled with moist high-end potting soil.   

Varieties:  4 Celeste, 1 Chicago Hardy, 2 Black Mission, 1 Lemon, 1 Sal’s El, 2 Kadota, 1 Panache, 2 Petite Negra, 2 Nero 600m, and 2 Violette de Bordeaux

  • 18 cuttings from fig trees
  • Pro-Mix BX+ Potting Mix
  • 18 figs set up in new pots
  • 18 figs set up in new pots
  • fig tree cuttings
  • fig tree cuttings

February 8, 2020 – Planted Carrot, turnip, lettuce, and more peas

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  • Purple Top White Globe Turnip
  • Red Cored Chantenay Carrot
  • Sparkler Radish
  • raised bed with radish, carrot, and turnip
  • Aiden cut off some fresh broccoli for a snack
  • Black Seeded Simpson Lettuce
  • India Florida Broad Leaf Mustard
  • Melting Sugar Snow Peas
  • Raised Bed with lettuce, mustard, and peas
  • 6 raised beds

Interactive Map

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Hover over the icons on this map to see more information about the garden and permaculture elements.

The Best Watermelon Ever!

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  • Our first watermelon of the year
  • delicious!

Amber has been checking our watermelon plants almost every day to see if they are ready to harvest. Tonight she decided to grab the first one. Oh wow, it was sweet, juicy, and delicious! I didn’t do anything except plant the seeds and wait. No fertilizer, no babying. I barely watered, except when they were drooping in the heat of summer.

Hügelkulture Bed Created July 4, 2019

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Me, Aiden, and Bryson started moving all the tree trimmings in place to create a hugelkulture bed today. The wood is stacked 2 to 3 foot high, then I’ll add another 2-3 foot of soil on top of that.

Bryson and Aiden standing beside wood stacked up for new huglekulture bed
Starting to add soil to top of wood for huglekulture bed

New Blackberry Plants

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Aiden and I went on the tour of Texas Worm Ranch that was set up just for the members of North Texas Vegetable Gardeners. A nasty thunderstorm moved in while we were there and we hung out in the bathroom because the winds were so bad the roof next door was flying off.

After we left the worm farm, we went over to Carol Garrison’s urban homestead and she gave us a tour of her front yard vegetable garden, chickens, tropical garden, rainwater harvesting, greenhouse, composting, and fish. She dug up some of her blackberry bushes and a special okra plant and set us home with these plants! I came home and put them in the ground. I just checked on them this morning and they seem to be doing good so far.

  • Aiden was happy to help me, but he was not happy with me taking his picture.