Category: Ideas
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4 Ways You Can Boost Local Backyard Vegetable Gardening
There is an abundance of valuable knowledge, advice, and wisdom shared in the NTVG Facebook group, but Facebook is a poor tool for storing and categorizing this information. For those that feel compelled to help save good information and help more people grow their own food, here are some ideas: Answer questions on social media…
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Figs are Undiscovered Treasures for Fruit Loving North Texans
The online community at ourfigs.com lists over 500 different varieties of figs. They even group figs into five flavor groups of Honey, Sugar, Adriatic, Bordeaux and Dark Berry. I was turned on to this world I never knew existed by reading an answer given by Chad Spurlock in the NTVG facebook group. Chad’s favorite variety…
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More than just veggies: Flowers and decorative plants you can eat
When it comes to your garden you want it to both be beautiful and practical. While veggies are very practical sometimes they are lacking in the beauty department. However you can use even areas exposed to the neighborhood, like front yards, to add plants to your landscaping that look great and are useful at the…
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Gardening in the Texas Heat
A recent video from Marjory Wildcraft had some interesting suggestions for what we can grow in our vegetable gardens during the long, hot, dry Texas summers: Gardening in the Heat with Marjory Wildcraft of Backyard Food Production Her plant suggestions are: cowpeas (black-eyed peas) okra sweet potato lambsquarters nutsedge (chufa) canna lily
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Zero Cost / Zero Waste Alternative to Pots
An alternative to buying pots for starting seeds or making pots out of newspaper is to use a clump of soil with no container at all by using a handy little tool like the soil cube. There are several benefits from starting seeds like this: saves money (no re-occurring costs) no need to sanitize old pots…