By Jannie Vaught Yes, it is July and a stormy one at that with high wind and cloudy skies that are turning our spring summer gardens into a mess! But after the downed limbs are removed and the tomatoes righted were are in a good place to prepare for the fall garden. The rotation of crops and recycling of space is known as “succession … Continue reading Starting On The Fall Season Garden
By Jannie Vaught All the ups and downs of the season have made for a very off the chart growing season. I do use growing guides for zone 8a and some of the days to ripen are either early or still hanging on for that bright sunshine to build their sugars and turn that lovely pink-red of the tomato. I am getting a few tomatoes … Continue reading Summer Is Fully Here
By Jannie Vaught With this season arrives all the issues of heat, bugs, and water. Let’s remember some basics, if possible cover tender plants with shade cloth or ahead of time plant where it has a little shade from larger plants or a tree, Water consistently and check soil by digging a little hole to see if there is moisture deeper in the root system … Continue reading Happy Summer
By Jannie Vaught After the devastating storms, the cleanup and restorative care have begun. We as gardeners lost gardens, trees and a full seasons work. But nature is resilient and through the cleanup, there were survivors. Plumbs that stayed on the trees, corn that was still good even though it was blown over and yes, tomatoes hiding inside the tristed branches! I am a Permaculture … Continue reading Another Great Day In The Garden
In a time when eating healthy has become all the rage and we hear that we have to do more to achieve and maintain health, it is has certainly become hard to do so when one is busy with work, family, and every day errands. More and more people are returning to home base cooking and one of the front runners that is promoting this … Continue reading Cooking Healthy With The AirGo
By Jannie Vaught So suddenly that it caught many of us off guard. When the intense sun and heat bears down on tender leaves you get what looks like a blow torch has scorched them. I went out the next morning and was suddenly snapped into the reality that yes it’s Hot! I trimmed the burnt leaves, watered and started a batch of compost tea … Continue reading For Many Of Us, The Heat Is On
By Jannie Vaught Marion-Webster definition, a garden in which plants (such as vegetables or herbs) for use in the kitchen are cultivated. Location is an important subject. It is close to the kitchen door. Some who like to figure measurements say 25 steps away. Or you walk past if from the car to the door. Or off the patio where you can gather and enjoy … Continue reading The Topic For Today Is Kitchen Gardens
By Stephan Pisko You are born physically connected to an ambilical cord when you are severed from this so called ‘lifeline’ you immediately are connected to a ‘crazy cord’ that begins to puppet you’re every actions and thoughts fixing you within a time + controlled space leaving you helplessly chained to a dollar bill for this is crisis management to the tenth power you enter … Continue reading Selfie Crisis Checkout
By Stephan Pisko mind The mind requires some sort of linear spacial coordinate in which to fix up on as a satisfied point of perception it selects a space in doing so instigates ‘self’ within a positional picture ‘you are here’, but you may want to ‘go there’. Mind is then an arbitrary space scout administering ‘self’ with virtual depth viscosity space injects mind with … Continue reading Linear Spacial Coordinate
By Stephan Pisko If you want to see the “future – present – past” just look at human beings, their anxieties, their movement, their tension, their noise and this is all of that. Look at subliminal slavery (slaves who are virtually unaware that they are slaves). 4.5 billion years ago their existed “stated silence” calmed nothingness then came cell life the invisible variables’ manifested themselves … Continue reading Past, Present, Future – Noise, Tension, Anxiety
RAM 1500 With Triple Crown Winner Justify Image Credit: James Groth – Miles Ahead Communications (2018) This article first appeared in Truck Ride & Drive Reviews December 28, 2018 by our contributor James Groth. Words & Images By James Groth Since the media introduction of the 2019 RAM 1500 in August, RAM 1500 is matching wins with its stablemate Justify, the 2018 Triple Crown Winner. … Continue reading RAM 1500 Matching Wins With Triple Crown Winner Justify
By Jannie Vaught So many gardens were severely frost bitten, or should I say froze to death, that my message box became full in one day! What do I do and will it survive? If any tender vegetables were out it probably will not be a good producer if it survives. Even my hardy winter worn mustard greens were bent over double. Most of my … Continue reading Trimming Back What The Frost Got
Jannie Vaught To observe the many flowering trees and native plants. The Blue bonnets are up and beautiful, the prickly poppies, white against a backdrop of winter browns and Indian Paintbrush is starting to show, the eye catching orange- red. What has peaked my interest is the Red Bud trees. So as I was looking at these lovely trees I went a little … Continue reading Just A Fine Day To Take A Drive And Walk Around Our Town
Jannie Vaught Most of the stone fruit trees are budding and many in flower. The Blue Bonnets are showing with their bright blue sparkles. I didn’t realize how color hungry I had become, then the first flowers and the Bonnets show and I think I’ve been living in black and white. I have 2 subjects to cover this time. Perennial, Annual and Biennial vegetables and … Continue reading This Is The Time Of Year We Look Forward To
Jannie Vaught With really wanting to get all my garden plots tilled, fed and ready to go. Onions are in and now potatoes are in the ready. The table and grow lights are going up this week, the soil is sterilized and the trays are cleaned. Get out the seeds and the garden planner and let the seeding begin. For this gardener, it’s a task … Continue reading For This gardener It Is A Hurry Up And Wait Month
By Jannie Vaught Let’s have a look at a few simple ways to rotate our garden plants to keep soil fertility up and loss of nutrients for maximum growth low, by simply moving the plants around every year. Get your garden journal out, and start doing some drawings of last years garden. Write the date and location and growing zone. In this drawing write what … Continue reading Garden And Crop Rotation For Soil Health And Restoration
By Jannie Vaught Stepped out to work in the garden and was driven back into the warmth of a hot tea and time to plan and study. Let’s look at seed preparation. Water soak; many seeds will germinate faster when they are soaked in water before planting directly into the soil. For thick-skinned seeds such as peas and beans soak the night before 8 … Continue reading The Wind Arrived With Cold Temperatures And The Sunshine
By Jannie Vaught For this gardener, it is the first to plant in January through February and the reason we prepared our soil and it is now ready to receive the starts. Your Local Feed stores have them in now. For our growing area, they are Short Day onions. LLano Feed and Supply in LLano Texas and Mason Feed in Mason Texas have the ones … Continue reading Onions, The Fruit Of The Gods It Is Said
By Stephan Pisko Am I indeed going somewhere besides a piggybacked procrastination of webbed circles too much on my plates’ – too much exploded time going up in my aging smoke its a new year and I’m almost (40) years old (2) jobs with high-priority company project profile deadlines’ – “What in the Hell Am I Doing?”. My days seem like a ‘hellish tornado’ I … Continue reading Whirlwind Web – Where In The Hell Am I Going With My Career
By Stephan Pisko, The grunge look is a little more difficult to pull off if you don’t possess the ‘honest attitude’ it’s harder to do than it visually seems and some personalities’ are just more suited to execute the ‘grunge look’ than most. It is not about protesting anti -fashion it’s about ‘who you are’ do you know yourself honestly ‘are you that attitude ?’ … Continue reading Grunge Fashion – The Attitude
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