I saw them at our local feed store this morning. It will be March before I plant mine.

I planted mine today. You can heap dirt back over potatoes before a freeze and they will keep on ticking.

Any of y'all have fruit trees? I'm planning on planting a few this spring. Most likely apple and pear.

we have peach and plum ... one peach is Sam Houston, that little booger is already covered in leaves and blooms popping out but it has a very low chill hour rating (I would not recommend for any colder area), the other peach tree has only produced 2 times in the past 10 or so year as it has a very high chill hour rating and we don't get enough cold weather here (Georgetown) for it to set blooms very often. I do not recall on the plum.

I have thought about planting a pear tree or two, but it would have to be outside my fenced yard (where 2 of the others are) and I don't think I could keep the deer off of them to get a good start, they hammer on the one peach tree that is outside the yard, but it's a older tree that I transplanted from inside the yard when we determined it didn't produce.

We are also considering fruit tress this year, we are going to a meyer lemon, some type of orange tree and thinking an avocado tree. The wife was wanting to do a peach tree but my cousin was telling me they rely on cross pollination, I don't want to get multiple peach trees, Id rather have variety.

the Sam Houston is a self-pollinating variety of peach tree and should work well down in the Houston area. Just have to be careful once it puts on blooms about any freezing temperatures. I built a pseudo frame around ours, use garden netting and put either a few of drop cord lights or quartz free standing shop lights if the temperature will be below 32.

Ok I will look into those then.

Your feed store has a foundation problem

I have several fruit trees, would have to dig in my box of tags to recall what cultivar each is. 2 pear, 2 plums, 2 apricots, 2 peach and 3 apple with a crab apple to help apple pollination.

What CR said about chill hrs is important, here is a good site to check your average chill hrs (anything 40* and under) Use the map link to find a local station number

http://getchill.net/

Try to find trees grown close, Womack nursury is a darn good place for trees in North/ Central Texas
https://womacknursery.com/

BTW, Most of my trees are semi-dwarf, to keep size down somewhat

Started the seeds today.

Pepper: Jalapeno
Pepper: Pablano / Ancho
Pepper: California Wonder Bell
Squash: Prolific Straightneck Summer Squash
Zucchini: Black Beauty Summer Squash
Sugar Snow Pea
Pea: Black Eyed Pea
Bean: Top Crop
Asparagus: Mary Washington Asparagus
Cantaloupe: Hearts of Gold
Watermelon: Sugar Baby
Tomato: Roma
Tomato: Large Red Cherry
Tomato: Beefsteak
Cucumber: Boston Pickling



Tiller carb ws shot. Wasn't able to clean it enough to keep the machine running. Installed the new carb this morning. Busted off and purred like a kitten on the first pull.

Saved $100 by making a furrower. It started with a shovel. Used scraps that I had laying around. Not bad.

WTG Chickenman! All I have managed so far is till the garden

I hope to spray mine today if the wind can lay low for a while. My son will turn the garden. He loves it. I do too actually. We trade off. One tills while the other picks up rocks. I'm loaded with 4" rocks up here.

When I was a kid, our house garden was full of rocks, 3" on down, but some of the richest dirt you could find, grandad said a few rocks help hold moisture. This was outside (north) of Harrison Ark.

Fresh till earth sure does have it's draws, even when just to clean up between rows, just feels "tidy"

Nice job on the furrower. Did you plant the asparagus in the garden or in it's own bed?

Do you have pics of the old carb?

Figured I sow the seeds first. Everyone I have talked to has said it can't be done. We'll see. I'm not optimistic.

Worst part about the old carb was when I threw it, it went clean through my damn boat cover. Highly disappointing.

Dang Chickenman, that's like blaming the cabinet door for hitting your noggin Better revenge would have been to incorporate it into your "custom build"

better picture of the pots. Hard to tell but thats 51 pots.

Looks like cups to me

I just can't do that. It's like losing a pet if they freeze.

It's just a plant

No, no, no, my babies.

Chickenman, what are you spraying your garden with? And what does it do for you?
Have mine burned off and ready to till this week if the rain holds off.
Thanks.