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Garden Construction: Dirt

The previous garden construction posts took from September 2011 until January 2012 to complete. With the irrigation, raised beds and pergola complete, the…

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Garden Construction: Pergola!

Muscadines, like grapes, are vines that like to climb on things and really should be given a way to keep off the ground. I did plenty of research into the…

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Garden Construction: Bed Building

The process of building the raised beds was quite long. Unfortunately, I tend to remember only after I'm done that I should have taken pictures. If you're…

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Garden Construction: Bed Timbers

After the month-long frustrating adventure that was irrigation, I moved on to bed construction. That's when I figured out that nothing would be easy or…

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Garden Construction: Planning

There were a lot of things that went wrong in the garden construction process. That was really surprising and frustrating considering how much planning I…

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Garden Construction: Irrigation

It's been half a year since the last time I posted anything. Since then I've made a lot of progress on the garden in my backyard. I'll go back through some…

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Fruits!

I really enjoy eating fruit. After years of not eating very many, it's been nice to start purchasing more fruit during our grocery runs. Eating fruit and…

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Seeds, and Lots of Them

I just ordered the majority of the vegetable seeds for my garden. The seed packets individually don't cost that much ($1.50-$4 a packet), but it adds up…

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Backyard Grains

I've been doing some research into growing grains and other staples in the backyard. For the most part, they are easy to grow. The main thing to look for is…

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Gardening Phase One

It appears that I've caught the gardening bug. It all started this past winter. We had a significant hard freeze here and lost a lot of our plants. That…

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Year Round Gardening in Houston

I've come across the perfect book for gardening in Houston. Year Round Vegetables, Fruits and Flowers for Metro Houston by Bob Randall, Ph.D, was written,…