With this being such a hopeful time of the year, Dreamweaverarts wishes you the hope and beauty of springtime and the promise of a brighter tomorrow. Warmest thoughts to you and your family for this spring. There have been quite a few days of darkness without a glimmer of hope in sight for many and with all of the chaos that has engulfed the world … Continue reading Spring A Season Of Hope And Renewal
By Jannie Vaught What to plant in the garden is dependent on the size, location, full sun, or partial shade and grow what you like to eat. With soaring fuel costs, lack of fertilizer, and this “whacky” ever-changing up and down weather it is time to make a list and get serious about your garden. Many of us have yard gardens some have spacious areas … Continue reading What To Plant List
By Jannie Vaught One day we are running the cooler and in a few days a cold front is dipping into our region and we are back with the heater on. What does this mean for the new plants in the garden? Plants at 39 degrees can feel the chill and will need a cover to be safe. Tomatoes which are now beginning to flower … Continue reading April Is Full Of Surprises
By Jannie Vaught It is planting time; we had a little cold snap on Easter, but the night temperatures weren’t to the frost. I planted the biggest Tomato starts last weekend, the smaller cherry variety got a promotion to bigger pots until next week and some went into 5 gallon and larger tubs, buckets with holes or pots. Some went into the raised beds and … Continue reading April In The Garden
If spring came but once a century instead of once a year, or burst forth with the sound of an earthquake and not in silence, what wonder and expectation there would be in all hearts to behold the miraculous change. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow There are always flowers of hope all around us to reminding us of brighter and better days ahead. Spring is a time … Continue reading Wishing You A Wonderful Season Of Spring
By Jannie Vaught After many loads of frozen cacti, century plants, and tree damage trimmings it appears to be almost at a finish. I need some time for the garden. But this brings me to a question so many of us have. After the freeze with freeze broken pipes, pumps and wells frozen and for many the loss of electric power, how can we prepare … Continue reading For Many Of Us The Freeze Clean-Up Is Still Underway
By Jannie Vaught This is a practice my Farming Gardening Grandparents did. My Grandfather was also a water dowser using a fresh willow branch that had a Y. He had me walking all over the garden with that branch until it finally went down on its own. And that was a big moment for me. Planting with the Signs……… This is very familiar with mainly … Continue reading Planting By The Signs
By Jannie Vaught Don’t let the name scare you this is not table salt which will render soil unusable for years unknown. This is magnesium-sulfate, a micronutrient that plants need to grow stay green and thrive. For pennies on the dollar. There are 2 types. The one you buy at the drug store or an Agriculture grade. The drug store one is the one you … Continue reading Using Epson Salt In The Garden-Myth or Miracle
By Jannie Vaught What Are the essentials needed for starting seeds indoors? They need a good starting mix, heat, light, and Moisture!!! So you have your table up and ready. Your lights are hung above the table and you have your starting cell trays with bottoms trays that are new or clean and a bottom heating pad for seed starting. Lets start with the Starting … Continue reading Seed Starting Time
By Jannie Vaught The early young grasses are showing and the first Bee feeding blossoms the Dandelion are beginning to show. We in central Texas are in Grow Zone 8a with the last frost around mid-march. But my itch to get outside is seriously getting more bothersome by the day. I have learned the lesson of starting too early and starting over, we have a … Continue reading Spring Is On The Way
. By Jannie Vaught Potatoes and onions have been in, all the favorite tomatoes and peppers are showing flowers and even some fruiting. Then a strong wind comes and whirls it around. Every year there is something to repair. Amongst social distancing and face masks and hand sanitizer, the majority of my day is spent alone in the garden, planting, harvesting seeds, or repairing something. … Continue reading Spring Is Always A Tumultuous Time For The Garden
By Jannie Vaught As with all season transitions, it is always tumultuous. That’s a nice word for Stormy! Just when we get the tiller and digging tools ready it comes to a storm, but as a generational farmer and now a gardener it just seems normal. Rush get ready, now wait. And in the waiting time get out all those seeds and your garden planner … Continue reading Count Down To Spring Has Begun In Earnest
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
By: Jannie Vaught With the garden fully planted and the job of setting watering systems and repairing sprinklers the only thought in my mind as I plant and dig is “Watermelon.” Citrullus lanatus is a scrambling and trailing vine in the flowering plant family Cucurbitaceae. The species long thought to originate in South Africa. Although that was an error and DNA tests have found it … Continue reading Watermelon, A Treat For Long Days
By: Jannie Vaught Every spring the wait for the first Blue Bonnet to show is a day for happy celebration! Happy Celebration Everyone their here!! This is the show of natures beauty we have been waiting through all this dreary dark winter. We have a bunch on the corner of our car port and we check it daily. When that first cluster show’s we … Continue reading Natures Celebration of Spring
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