By Stephan Pisko The human body “undoes” what puberty has “done” if you think that puberty is “part of the human body” you might have to rethink. Puberty is a “hormonal reaction”, but the reaction is beyond the hormones only “instigate the reactive” beyond with only one directive. Continue reading Puberty – Hormonal Reaction
Jannie Vaught As we plan and design our soon to be spring gardens why not think and plan for some new and varied plants to try. When we step into the average grocery store there are approximately 10 vegetables that are almost always available. For some larger grocery or specialty stores, you can purchase a wider variety and more leafy greens. Why not go beyond … Continue reading Beyond The 10
By Jannie Vaught The National Butterfly Center in Mission Texas is a 100-acre wildlife center and native species botanical garden dedicated to the conservation and study of butterflies. Since many butterfly plants support bees also. Take a moment and go to their web site. www. nationalbutterflycenter.org. for all the latest and up to date information you can wish to find. They say the butterfly is … Continue reading Butterfly The Canary In The Coal Mine
By Jannie Vaught In this article, you will read about gardening, plants, seeds and such but today I would like to venture into another subject that is keeping me and many of us in small towns from “Blooming” and it is the closing of our much-needed recycling areas. Ours closed and now I am overwhelmed with cardboard, aluminum cans, plastic milk bottles and the many … Continue reading Blooming While Practicing Zero Waste
By Jannie Vaught Yes, if you find your gardening duties are slow now it just got busy. The onion starts are in the feed stores. Here in central Texas, it is Short Day onions that do best (11 to 12 hour day lengths). Here are some that grow well here. Yellow: Chula Vista, Cougar, Jaguar, Legend, Linda Vista, Mercedes, Prowler, Safari, Sweet sunrise, TX 1015Y, … Continue reading It is Onion And Leek Time!
By Jannie Vaught Plan first, sort seeds and decide what you need to purchase. You can still plant some cold crop plants, Asian greens, lettuce, radish, and spinach. It is also bare root fruit tree season and cane berry time. Most nurseries will begin to have fruit trees and blackberry plants in or will have them in soon. If you purchase small blackberry plants it … Continue reading What To Do In The Garden In January?
By Jannie Vaught Here are a few of mine: 1. More compost and carbon in the soil. 2. Learn more about starting trees and plants from cuttings. 3. Plant thornless blackberries along fences lines for support. 4. Grow more peppers and okra! What’s on your garden list? Incorporating these as the new design unfolds. It is clear to see that my cover crop seeding has … Continue reading Happy 2020, Time For Garden Resolutions
By Jannie Vaught I am a seed catalog reader. As I grow more interesting varieties I am often lured away by the siren call of that very pretty plant in the catalog. And boy do I get hooked easily! So after all the reading and examining each page back and front, I get my garden journal out and take a look at what I grew … Continue reading Seed Catalogs Are Showing Up
Stephan Pisko “Too much money breeds too much disposable waste” this is a major problem “garbage” should NOT be a “billion dollar industry. On the “one hand” the monetary builds cities’ like Dubai a place where human beings’ “could not live” and turns it into a place where human beings’ “can live” then on the “other hand” the monetary imprisons – tortures – uses – … Continue reading Monetary Garbage
By Stephan Pisko This is another story about a human being and a dog the human just happens to be a man but it could of been a woman just happens to be a dog but it could of been a cat but where this particular story parts roads’ is within the “total selfless act of doing” this male human bestows upon the only true … Continue reading Total Selfless Act of Doing
The Art Of Monteque would like to wish you and yours a very happy and wondrous holiday Season . May it be full of love, prosperity, good health, peace, joy, and happiness. We hope you enjoy this holiday season with someone you love. Thank you so very much for your supporting The Art Of Monteque. We could not do what we do without you. Thank … Continue reading Happy Holidays From The Of Monteque
By Jannie Vaught Have you ever wondered about the USDA growing zones and what does it mean to you as a gardener or a farmer? Let us get a definition. The USDA Hardiness Zone map divides North America into 11 separate planting zones; each growing zone is 10*F warmer (or colder) in an average winter than the adjacent zone. Zone 8 Texas is one of … Continue reading What The USDA Growing Zones Mean
By Jannie Vaught Solstice is December 22. This is the final descent into darker shorter days with deeper cold at night. Then the light begins to return on the 22nd. and slowly we climb into lighter mornings and longer days. In some Old Northern customs, they consider this as Spring. Here in central Texas, we wait till the temperature warms and the first shoots begin … Continue reading Garden Tools And Approaching Winter
By Jannie Vaught “The beauty of seed is rivaled only by their purpose.” Seed Savers Exchange. Definitions that will clear up the usage of these terms. Sustainable: able to maintain at a certain rate or level. Renewable: not depleted when used. These are just two of the many descriptive words now used when someone is describing their “Natural ” lifestyle choice. I find this overuse, … Continue reading The Beauty Of The Seed
The Art Of Monteque would like to wish you and yours a very happy and wondrous Thanksgiving. Hoping that you are spending it with the ones you love; in good health, peace, joy, and happiness. Thank you so very much for your supporting The Art Of Monteque. We could not do what we do without you. Thank you. The Art Of Monteque will be taking … Continue reading Happy Thanksgiving From The Art Of Monteque
By Jannie Vaught Which is a good time to brush up on seed saving, I am using the Book The Seed Garden The Art and Practice of Seed Saving from Seed Savers Exchange. If you are interested in going deeper into seed and plant identification this is a good book to have. Definition; Taxonomy and Nomenclature is the science that identifies and classifies plants according … Continue reading It Is The Quiet Time In The Garden
By Jannie Vaught Being born and raised in a farming and gardening family, now it is called “homesteading” my grandparents and parents always saved seeds and plant cuttings. This was as normal as cooking dinner. They walked the Trail of Tears, with seeds, and were relocated to central California after the dust bowl. My Uncle Coy Vaught farmed with a mule team and worked the … Continue reading Why I Save Seeds
By Jannie Vaught It seems to be a daily challenge. we are expected to again dip in the low twenties by this weekend, then bounce up to the forty’s. Well, this makes more work of covering the fall garden plants and disconnecting hoses and covering the faucets. Or as many just shake their heads and let it freeze. As an “Old Woody in the Stem”gardener, … Continue reading The Ever-Changing Highs And Lows Of Our “Weird Weather”
Jannie Vaught The month of leaves, is this why it is called Fall? Anyway the bamboo leaf rake is out and the leaf re-distribution has begun. Don’t loose a single leaf! Break down thick layers of leaf accumulation in beds and lawn. Thick heavy matts can encourage mice, voles and pests. Break up the matted build up and take to your compost bin to be … Continue reading Welcome To The Month Of November
By Stephan Pisko The universe is expanding and the mind is collapsing shrinking to a convex point of useful nothingness where a select number of beings’ will prevail simple survival is evolving into a technical tyrant. At one juncture human beings’ were independent survivalists’ but we are changing places as interdependent submissive savages under domination taskmasters (or) technical tyrants and greed gods. The mind is … Continue reading New Psychology + Senses
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