Karl's Garden Blog

I’m growing a Cayenne pepper plant in a container. I wasn’t aware that these guys got this big.
Next year I’m going to have to plan this a little better and snip the flowers until the plant gets a bit bigger…

This past week (between the sunburn from hell, the work week from hell, the doggy week from hell, flu pandemics, and thunderstorms…) I managed to get some more dirt into the raised bed in the back and to transplant all the tomato and other plants that I’ve had patiently waiting in containers.
In one area [...]

Over the past few days, as I’ve been nursing my sunburn and my poor demented psychodog, I’ve been trying to rehab the raised bed garden a bit. It settled by about 33%, and
One of the things I had to do was to transplant the Sequioia strawberry. It’s one of those plants that apparently didn’t [...]

I’ve been down with the scuzz all week, and spend most of it sleeping when I wasn’t working from home, taking care of the dogs, or blowing big yellow chunks of my lung out through my nose I did manage to get some of the absolutely necessary gardening done.
Namely, I got the first section [...]

Wow! Things are finally happening in the garden! It’s amazing to see four months of hard work start to (literally) bear fruit. Although today we’re having what an old timer would call “a real toad floater” of a thunderstorm…
As I’ve said, I’m not sure if I’ll actually get any edible broccoli or cauliflower, but [...]

Using my last two of the 2×4s I purchased when I was building it, I installed some beams in the raised bed garden to expand my overhead growing area. Since I only have 7 feet by 7 feet to grow in (1 foot of the 8×8 in each direction is taken up by walkway made [...]

Work has been a bear recently. Please bear with me as I catch up!
Sunday and Monday nights, as seems to be somewhat reliable for South Texas (two years ago we had an ice storm…), we had a bit of a freeze. At first they were expecting a major frost, which would’ve been bad, but [...]

After the rains we’ve had in the past week or two, the garden and yard have suddenly come alive with blooms and buds of all sorts.
The aloe vera plant on my front porch has some spectacular buds on it. Before the stalk formed, I had no clue that aloe plants bloomed! The flower stalk [...]

It’s amazing what you can find by taking a few runs through the Texas Agrilife Extension website. This article about onion varieties is fascinating. I’ve found that most people working and writing in agriculture have an excellent sense of humor, and I’ve been using their pesticide guides to figure out how to kill my aphid [...]

This ain’t no April Fools joke! Last night I uploaded “before and after” pictures of the Packman Broccoli and White Cloud Cauliflower from earlier this month and then last week. Wow, what a difference a mere 15 days makes! And here I thought they weren’t growing…