April 6, 2025 Rain, has kept me away.........

September 3, 2024 Look at the plants... https://www.youtube.com/@NitasYardAndGarden

August 30, 2024 Oh, it's so nice and cool.............

June 17, 2024 Checking my yard and garden.....

June 2, 2024 Beans, peas, squash, etc........

April 30, 2024 Compost and Butterfiles

April 30, 2024Hello From Me

April 27, 2024Gardening in my yard.

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You Have Black Soil?

Black soil is a type of soil that is rich in organic matter, clay, and iron. It is also known as black earth, black loam, or chernozem. Black soil is good for growing crops such as wheat, cotton, sugarcane, and vegetables. However, black soil can also be heavy, sticky, and prone to waterlogging. Therefore, it may need some amendments to improve its drainage, aeration, and fertility1 One way to amend black soil is to add a garden mix that contains ingredients such as sphagnum peat moss, perlite, coir, gypsum, limestone, wetting agent, and mycorrhizae. These ingredients can help loosen the soil, increase its water retention and porosity, adjust its pH, and enhance its microbial activity. A garden mix that contains these ingredients is the PRO-MIX Organic Garden Mix, which you can find more information about on its website2

Potatoes

 

I tried it different this year and made a planter, the way I saw on another website.  I have potatoes, and will follow up on the harvest later...

 

I had a few potato sprouts left so I planted them in this pot... just in case they wanted to do something.....and I had the extra pot........

Lemon Tree Blooms

 

Since the weather temps have turned cold, I brought my lemon and lime trees in to protect them.  As you can see the Lemon tree has sprouted blooms.

 

This one opened first and I can't wait to see if it will set fruit and support it.  It had many fruit set back in the summer, but a bad hail storm came along and knocked them all off.  So, since this time they are protected inside, maybe I'll get a few lemons before long.

History Coming Down

 

150 years of tree coming down today.....

Tomatoes

 

Looking good, will have tomatoes in a few weeks.

Mango

 

Here is my mango tree, that I sprouted from seed back a few months ago.  It stayed in the house all winter, and has started to put on new leaves, since I fed it last week.  Am interested to see what this year's growth will yield.

Potatoes

I guess you could say, I'm proud of my potato plants, as they seem to be growing real well after the last rain.

Onion Slips

Bought one bunch of onion slips, which are priced very high, this year.  They are planted and I hope the animals in the area, stay out of my garden, so I don't have to replant them, after they dig them up using it for a potty..........trying to deter them from here......

Rain Has Come Again

 

Back in May of this year, we experienced the onslaught of heavy rains, for about three days, straight.  We found many people stuck on the roads in high water.  The creek and river banks were gorged and overflowing, with possible ruptures of the local dams around the lakes.  Now, we are in the middle of the same situation, with the latest weather.

 

Today, it's again raining and has been since yesterday morning, with rain amounts in the 5, 6 & 7inch range in most areas of North Texas and over most of the State.  Looks as though the rain will stay here another day or so, since Hurricane Patricia has hit Mexico and traveling up the coast in our direction.  The outer  bands of the hurricane, will continue the upper level of moisture to be present in our areas.  

We are already floating, and there has been many motorists stranded needed rescue.  

The local construction areas have been affected with flooding as well, causing delays in commuter traffic the last 24 hours.

A Cloud?

Is that clouds I see up in the Northeastern skies?  I had to run down town for a few things and on the way back I noticed some clouds up towards the north of town.  Wow, what a nice feeling to see some clouds.  It gives us hope of a chance of rain, which is badly needed in the middle of August.  The ground is so cracked and dry.  I hear that the lake levels are dropping as well.  Not good, after all that rain we had in May!

Firewood

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Here is just a few branches from the big tree that fell which we have broken up to put in the fire pit for kindling to build a fire.

As you can see, it will be a while before we can make a dent in the huge amount, since there has been a rain once too often in the last few weeks.  The summer heat is building and this means we won't be making any fires, for fear of it getting away from us and causing a problem.  There are too many forest fires in the summer because of the dry grass and weeds.  We wouldn't want to burn down our home  :(