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
First, since we know that insects are inside the athropod phylum. Also, when we think of insects we’re bunching a lot of different species into the anthropod phylum. So first let’s determine what an anthropod actually is… They have jointed…
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Category: Year One
Tags: 2021, anthropod, anthropods, arachnida, arachnids, chilopoda, class, Crustacea, diplopoda, family, genus, hexapoda, hopkins, hopkins County, insect, insects, kingdom, order, phyla, phylum, species, taxonomy
That’s right, bugs. At least, that’s the slang term for these creepy crawlers and freaky fliers. They are the primary consumers of plants on this planet and also the greatest predator of plant eaters (if you don’t count how we…
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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
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
My favorite place to buy plants most certainly is going to be Yard by Yard. They have these huge greenhouses with so many plants. They have always been great, and it turns out that my father has painted the guys…
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Category: Uncategorized
Tags: business, east, fall garden, garden, gardening, green house, greenhouse, greenhouses, hopkins, hopkins County, north east, plant, plants, sulphur springs, texas, yard by yard
