Peas, peas and more peas are the stars of this vegetable garden report. Lettuce was the star last week, but, alas, the lettuce …
Vegetable garden late April
We are in the last week of April, and the vegetable garden is doing just fine thank you. In fact, it's doing a little too fine. …
Grow an Oklahoma summer vegetable garden
Good morning everyone. I see you're searching for how to grow an Oklahoma summer vegetable garden. Good for you! Garden on my …
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Spring garden update
It's time for a spring garden update. Everything in the perennial garden is leafed out and ready to be frozen next week if …
Gardening, citizen diarists, and a heartfelt thank you
A couple of weeks ago, I got my 10,000 steps seeding and feeding the fescue lawn. The lawnette always looks pretty pitiful this …
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Grow your own transplants from seed
One of the cheapest ways to garden in Oklahoma is to grow your own transplants from seed. Starting vegetable and flower seeds …
Winter gardening with amaryllis and paperwhite bulbs
What does a red-dirt-garden girl do in winter, or even late fall while her garden gently sleeps? I can't speak for anyone else in …
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Take time for butterfly watching (and plant for them too.)
Wherever you live in Oklahoma, take time for butterfly watching this fall. I haven't seen such a nice variety of butterflies in my …
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Buy bulbs now for spring flowers
Buy bulbs now for spring flowers, but wait to plant them. In Oklahoma, I wait until around Thanksgiving or maybe even a little …
Plants that thrive in Oklahoma summers
In case you haven't heard, it's July, and it's hot outside. How hot? This weekend, a giant heat dome will cover half of the United …
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Hard times in the cutting garden
This photo is of my cutting garden in previous, happier summers. I'm telling myself it can again be this good if I try, try again. …
Tornadoes and High Water
Two days before Monday, Oklahomans were warned it was going to be a bad day, a "high risk" weather day. That afternoon, I was …