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 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
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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I am much happier during the early growth season. Here I am planting new seeds right before it starts to get chilly. I know I will bring them in and I already have the best idea for where I want…
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I have heard good things about growing pears in my zone. A couple of my neighbors have some pear trees growing here and there. I know that they can grow in my area and rumor has it they do super…
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Category: Uncategorized
Tags: agroforestry, homestead, orchard, pear, pear tree, pears, permaculture, pollination, pollinators, zone 8, zone 8a
Good morning, some things you should know before we hop into the list. Apple trees produce in three to five years, they prefer full sun, and require fellow trees to assist in pollination. 1) Anna Apple– this is a hybrid…
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So i went to the Almanac and starting looking into what will actually do well in my area. Yes, I would like some sort of mutated version of Permaculture, Agroforestry, and pretty things that attract bird and bees and things…
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Category: Uncategorized
Tags: arabica, Arabica coffee plant, beer, black pepper, cascada hops, coffee, ginger, hops, peppercorn, perennial, permaculture, plant, plants, red leaf tea, sassafras, star anise, tumeric, yerba mate, zone, zone 8, zone 8a
Good day fair citizens. Doing research about my blue berries has led me to dig deeper and find out wow, blue berries need a lot of water and that I need to find out more about Zone 8. It is…
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