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They have begun to flower. I know it is a process but I do enjoy waiting for these beasties to produce. I am excited to see them come into bloom and see what kind of taste they have. I have…
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Category: Uncategorized
Tags: 2021, agriculture, agroforestry, April, beautiful, beginner, beneficial, blackberry, edible, flower, flowering, food forest, food forestry, food security, fruit, garden, gardening, growing, homestead, hopkins, hopkins County, horticulture, landscaping, permaculture
Are you like me and didn’t know that common plant names are not the best way of identifying plants because a lot of the common names get confused or could overlap with others? I mean there are trees that are…
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Category: Year One
Tags: 2021, agriculture, beautiful, beneficial, botanic, botany, country, definition, dicot, edible, educational, favorite, flower, flowering, food forest, food forestry, food security, fruit, fruit tree, future, garden, gardening, goals, growing, growing indoors, harmless, herb, homestead, hopkins, hopkins County, horticulture, industry, land, meaning, monocot, mystery, name, names, nature, new, New Year, pasture, pasture land, perennial, permaculture, Personal blog, picture, pictures, plant, Plant yourself, plants, pollinator, pollinators, preparation, pretty, propogation, random, resources, scenery, season, seasons, seeds, shrub, soil, sound, species, spirit, sustainability, suvrvial, TAMUC, temperature, texas, tradition, tree, trees, tricks, unknown, update, variety, web, wildlife, zone 8, zone 8a
I am having a lot of fun with rosemary. It is one of my favorite herbs to grow in our garden. I started rosemary in 2020 and I fell in love. Have you ever just taken your face and moved…
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Category: Uncategorized, Year One
Tags: agroforestry, art, beautiful, bee, bees, beginner, beneficial, bug resistant, clay, clay soil, container, country, drought resistant, edible, evergreen, favorite, food forest, food forestry, food security, fragrant, future, garden, gardening, goals, ground cover, growing, growing indoors, hardy, herb, homestead, hopkins, hopkins County, indoor, indoors, land, landscaping, life, medicinal, mystery, nature, new, New Plant, new year 2021, ornamental, perennial, permaculture, Personal blog, picture, pictures, plant, Plant yourself, plants, pollination, pollination pollinators, pollinator, pollinators, purple light, random, resources, rosemary, scenery, spirit, spring, starting out, texas, Tips, unknown, update, winter, wish, wishing, zone, zone 8, zone 8a
I started planting endive and arugula. I was told I should plant them in January, they can’t be transplanted until after the front but they need a little bit more time. I think we should start with endive. I should…
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Category: Year One
Tags: annual, arugula, beautiful, bee, bees, beginner, beneficial, blood glucose, blood sugar, business, cancer, diabetes, endive, food forest, food security, fragrant, future, garden, gardening, goals, growing, growing indoors, hardy, homestead, hopkins, hopkins County, indoor, indoors, life, low blood sugar, medicinal, nature, new, New Plant, permaculture, Personal blog, picture, pictures, plant, Plant yourself, plants, preparation, pretty, purple light, rain, random, resources, scenery, Science, season, seasons, spirit, starting out, sulphur springs, sustainability, temperature, texas, Tips, tradition, unknown, update, zone, zone 8, zone 8a
I started planting endive and arugula. I was told I should plant them in January, they can’t be transplanted until after the front but they need a little bit more time. I think we should start with endive. I should…
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Category: Year One
Tags: annual, arugula, beautiful, bee, bees, beginner, beneficial, blood glucose, blood sugar, business, cancer, diabetes, endive, food forest, food security, fragrant, future, garden, gardening, goals, growing, growing indoors, hardy, homestead, hopkins, hopkins County, indoor, indoors, life, low blood sugar, medicinal, nature, new, New Plant, permaculture, Personal blog, picture, pictures, plant, Plant yourself, plants, preparation, pretty, purple light, rain, random, resources, scenery, Science, season, seasons, spirit, starting out, sulphur springs, sustainability, temperature, texas, Tips, tradition, unknown, update, zone, zone 8, zone 8a
I have a five year plan. It is not a good plan and it changes from day to day but it is a plan. Right now, I have just left year zero. January 2021 is starting a new year for…
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Category: Uncategorized, YearZero
Tags: agroforestry, anniversary, apocalypse, apple, apples, autumn sage, baby trees, banana tree, beautiful, bee, beginner, beneficial, bird, birds, blackberry, blueberry, bug resistant, bulb, bulbs, business, butterflies, butterfly, calm, clay soil, drip irrigation, drought resistant, edible, fall garden, flower, flowering, food forest, food forestry, food security, fragrant, fruit, fruit tree, future, garden, gardening, goals, grape, ground cover, growing, growing indoors, herb, homestead, hopkins, hopkins County, hummingbird, hummingbirds, irrigation, jasmin, jasmine, land, landscaping, lantana, lemon tree, life, lime tree, limes, marjoram, meaning, medicinal, milkweed, monarch, monarch butterflies, monarch butterfly, nature, New Plant, New Year, new year 2021, nursery, orchard, oregano, ornamental, ornamental peppers, pasture, pasture land, pear, pear tree, pears, peas, perennial, permaculture, Personal blog, pests, picture, pictures, plant, sustainability, year zero
Last night as I was passing out I got a little lazy. My problem is that I got so into speaking to some of these amazing people that I let my posts get a little sloppy and instead of going…
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All the way from Oregon, Groot wants you to know he is proud of you. This is a weeks worth of growth on a Sunflower she planted with her daughter. I love the way she made the pictures come together…
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Category: Uncategorized
Tags: 2021, annual, beautiful, beginner, beneficial, butterflies, butterfly, container, cultures, edible, flower, flowering, fragrant, future, garden, gardening, goals, groot, growing, growing indoors, harmless, herb, homestead, hopkins, hopkins County, hops, hummingbird, hummingbirds, indoor, indoors, land, life, meaning, medicinal, mystery, nature, new, New Plant, New Year, new year 2021, News, pagan, pasture, pasture land, perennial, permaculture, Personal blog, picture, pictures, plant, Plant yourself, poison, preparation, pretty, Project Grow Your Roots, propogation, random, resources, shrub, spirit, sunflower, sunflowers, temperature, Tips, unknown, update, violas, violets, wish, wishing
Another lover of plants like myself is out there living the dream. She has sent us pictures of three different plants that are amazing and I can’t wait to look into and mention some cool facts about these amazing plants….
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Category: Uncategorized
Tags: 2021, anniversary, beginner, beneficial, cacti, cactus, cactus of love, calm, container, cultures, Douglas fir, evergreen, frozen, future, garden, goals, greetings, growing, growing indoors, hardy, holiday, holidays, homestead, hopkins, hopkins County, indoors, land, landscaping, life, love cactus, meaning, mystery, nature, new, New Plant, new year 2021, pagan, pasture, pasture land, perennial, permaculture, Personal blog, picture, pictures, plant, Plant yourself, plants, Project Grow Your Roots, resources, temperature, Thanksgiving cactus, Tonasket, tree, trees, unknown, update, Washington, winter, zone
So I was sitting here thinking about all of the cool things I could do for the New Year that didn’t require money or leaving the house. So I sent out an SOS in a lot of my cooler groups…
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Category: Uncategorized
Tags: beautiful, beginner, beneficial, bug resistant, business, cacti, cactus, calm, container, cultures, dangerous, deadly, drought resistant, garden, gardening, growing, growing indoors, homestead, hopkins, hopkins County, land, landscaping, life, mystery, nature, neurotoxin, new, New Plant, New Year, pagan, pasture, pencil cactus, permaculture, Personal blog, pictures, plant, Plant yourself, plants, poison, pretty, problems, Project Grow Your Roots, random, scenery, starting out, sulphur springs, unknown
I live in Texas. Howdy. I was looking into things that could boost my permaculture food forest without costing me any money. As I was looking through the many grants. It all started with the Monarch Butterfly Grant. This is…
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Category: Uncategorized
Tags: agroforestry, autumn sage, beautiful, bee, bees, beginner, beneficial, bird, butterflies, butterfly, calm, clay, clay soil, cultures, definition, drought resistant, edible, evergreen, fall garden, flower, flowering, fruit, garden, gardening, goals, grant, growing, hardy, harmless, herb, homestead, honey, hopkins, hopkins County, hummingbird, hummingbirds, land, landscaping, lantana, meaning, medicinal, milkweed, monarch, monarch butterflies, monarch butterfly, nature, nest, new, pagan, pasture, pasture land, perennial, permaculture, Personal blog, plant, plants, pollination pollinators, pollinator, pollinators, preparation, pretty, random, red sage, resources, sage, salvia, shrub, soil, sound, spirit, Spiritual beings, starting out, sulphur springs, temperature, texas, Texas sage, Tips, trailing lantana, tricks, unknown, vine, vines, wish, wishing, yellow, zone, zone 8, zone 8a
I just began growing a sprouted ginger in a pot yesterday. This morning I was scrolling through my Facebook groups and there it was: a sign from the universe. STORY TIME: We had this green shoot come off a piece…
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Category: Uncategorized
Tags: beautiful, beneficial, container, cultures, edible, fall garden, future, garden, gardening, ginger, ginger root, goals, growing, growing indoors, hardy, herb, homestead, hopkins County, indoor, indoors, life, medicinal, mystery, nature, new, pagan, permaculture, Personal blog, picture, pictures, plant, plants, resources, root, Tips, tricks
So, I have a lot more to follow but today I want to talk about Snowbank White Blackberry. I thought that this would be fun because literally no one writes about them. I do not know what I am doing…
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I know that professionals do not call it cloning, but it sounds a lot cooler than I propagated my lemon balm. Yes, yes, I should be an adult about this but I am not. I am still so amazed by…
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I think I might have slaughtered more innocent plants this time. I am sad about it, but the soil was too perfect and I was crumbling in my hand. Like a hermit crab these plants cannot stay in their smaller…
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Year zero was not as productive as I wanted it to be and so I am actively working towards making sure that i am actively adding pollinators and fruit producing plants. One of my favorite ways to do that is…
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That’s right. You heard it right. My pumpkins are beautiful and they have the most amazing flowers. Ignore how weedy my garden is. Pumpkins have two kinds of flowers: male and female. The first flowers to show up are male…
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It is hard to believe that one year ago my property had nothing on it. There was no pumpkins or even a house. One year ago today my land was simply a pasture out in the middle of no where….
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Cilantro is related to carrots, celery and parsley. This little herb is good in salads, soups and as a garnish. An excellent source of antioxidants and in one study about prostate cancer in 2019 saw a difference and leads towards…
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Yes, my guilty pleasure is buying fifty cent aloe vera plants from Walmart and saving their lives. I have not named them. We haven’t gotten very close. You can see that some were suffering and others suffered for a little…
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