Gulf Coast Garden

The collards plant growing on its own is suffering. Transitioning from lawn to veggi beds might not be a quick transition.

It is the same effort to harvest and clean a small leaf as a big leaf so my advice: maximize leaf size.

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Sunny and well drained. Those are the basic requirements for a spot that will make plants happy.

It matters when you plant plants. Observe and learn to have success.

Start plants from seeds. It is the most economical.

Your soil will degrade and need to be amended. Material must always be added. Compost is the best way to get this material.

There is no such think as yard waste. Start a compost pile today!

A description of my composting set-up

Soil is one of the four ‘S’s’ of Success gardening. Either you are lucky and there is good soil where you live. Or you need to buy or build soil. Building soil is easy, it is called compost and I will talk more about it tomorrow.

Soil Sprout Season Spot. Think about those things and you will be off to a great start with gardening.

Misti Little has a wonderful podcast. Www.the gardenpathpodcast.com. Check it out. Also cabbage worms. Never get bored of those.

Lemon trees are a wonderful addition to your gulf coast garden. Easy to grow and productive. Plan on planting on this fall or winter.

When he rain comes down and the water comes up, watch out for ants in your raised beds.

Clearing out the bed and finding the eggs means I may be getting ahead of the worms.

First pod of Okra harvest! This episode has the world premiere of my Okra song.

The second to last phase in garlic production is to cure it. The curing process dries the garlic out and makes it storable for a long time.

If plants don’t touch worms can’t spread.

The plants we know are the plants that grow. Collards are easy to love at every step in their life cycle.

A discussion of a flower bed in my garden that I have purposely let go to the weeds.