Citizen Gardener Class #3 will be in the Oak Cliff area at Repotted (700 W Davis St. 75208). The class will consist of two sessions held on Saturdays (2/4/2012 and 2/11/2012) from 10am to 2pm each day. For more information about the class and to sign up, visit www.northtexasvegetablegardeners.com/cg.
Here is a good video about backyard vegetable gardening and food safety.
Roger Doiron is founding director of Kitchen Gardeners International, a network of people taking a hands-on approach to re-localizing the global food supply. Doiron is an advocate for new policies, technologies, investments, and fresh thinking about the role of gardens. His successful petition to replant a kitchen garden at the White House attracted broad international recognition. He is also a writer, photographer, and public speaker.
TEDxDirigo – Roger Doiron – A Subversive Plot: How to Grow a Revolution in Your Own Backyard
Posting pictures in the forum is easy, here is how to do it:
Log in with your username and password (have to be logged in as a real user before you can post anything)
Start a new post or reply to a post by pressing the ‘New Topic’ 
or ‘Reply’ 
button.
Choose a method for inserting pictures into the body of the post:
Press the ‘Additional Options’ button near the bottom of the text entry box.
Press ‘Choose File’ button to upload your picture. Note that the file size must be small, and that it only lets you attach a few pictures to each post. My favorite programs for re-sizing pictures are irfanview and picassa. Sizing your images to less than 600 pixels will usually make the file size small enough.
Upload your pictures to a hosting service or server of your choice. (I like picassaweb best)
Copy the link to the file and paste it in the body of the forum post. (the link must be THE FILE, and not to a webpage, you can tell it is a file because it will end in .jpg, .gif, or .png and look like http://somewhereontheweb.com/somefolder/somefilename.JPG) (from picassaweb, the link is found by clicking on the ‘link to this photo’ and checking ‘Image only – no link’)
Highlight the link to your picture in the body of the forum post and press the ‘IMG’ button 
which adds the proper BBcode to the link so that the forum software will display the picture instead of displaying the link to the picture.
Press the ‘Post’ button 
to publish. The end!
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:
