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Gulf Coast Gardening
Gulf Coast Gardening shares a wealth of information about …well…gardening. Here, you’ll find articles on vegetable gardens, landscaping, native plants, pests and beneficial insects. You’ll find DYI guides on planting times, when and how to fertilize, and tools you may need. You’ll also discover interesting new discoveries in gardening and soil management techniques. I hope you will benefit from these blogs and keep coming back to Gulf Coast Gardening.
Recent Article
Time To Get Ready For Your Spring Garden
December is a busy time of year for all of us. And it’s easy to disregard chores, especially if the weather is cold and wet. But spring is right around the corner and now is the time to start getting ready for your spring garden. Get your seed catalogues and
Recent Blogs
Planting and Caring for Fruit Trees
I love my fruit trees. No, I don’t have an orchard, but I do have Meyer lemon, pawpaw, Mexican plum, native persimmon, fig, and peaches. A neighbor has a beautiful grove of Asian pears (which he, his wife, a daughter and my wife cooked and canned 47 quarts of the
Ladybugs Solve Garden Pest Problems
They’re tiny, voracious and pretty. They can eat 75 aphids per day and around 5,000 in a lifetime. They are also a serious threat to fruit flies, thrips, mites, scale insects, mealy bugs, and leaf-hoppers. Get enough ladybugs in your garden, and using pesticides for these unwanted insect pests becomes
Garden Chores For July
If July is anything like June, it’s going to be a hot one again. So that means wearing protective clothing, and a broad-brimmed hat. If you choose not to wear long sleeves and long trousers, make sure you use a high-rated sunscreen—SPF 30. Always make sure to wear a hat,
June Garden Chores
Clothing June is traditionally very hot in USDA Zones 8 and 9, as you know, so be sure when you’re out in the sun to wear protective clothing, sunscreen, a hat (I use a wide-brimmed straw hat, which allows air to flow through it, but keeps the sun off my
Is Glyphosate Safe? Gardeners Want To Know!
Glyphosate is the best-selling herbicide on the planet. There are dozens of manufacturers around the world and it is sold under many names. The most popular is Roundup. It is so popular and so widely used that it exists in or on most of our food products, in the bodies
Henbit – Invasive weed or desirable wild plant?
Henbit (Lamium amplexicaule) has a checkered reputation. Despised by the lawn industry and Big Ag, it is loved by many herbalists and conservationists, it lives in herbaceous limbo. The taxonomic name (Lamium) nails it down as a member of the mint family (Lamiaceae). This little plant is native to Europe,
About
Gulf Coast Gardening
At Gulf Coast Gardening our desire is to provide information about gardening…not only for us green-thumb (and some of us “black thumb”) veterans but also for all our beginning gardeners.
There are about 16 million people living along the Gulf Coast in Zones 8 and 9. About 25% are home gardeners, which means that home gardeners along the Gulf coast from Corpus Christi to Tampa number about 4 million. That’s a lot of gardeners.
Some of us grow vegetables and fruit, some grow ornamentals, some grow indoor plants, and many of us do all these things. A third of us are over 35, while the number of those under 35 is increasing day by day.
I am interested in your feedback, questions, suggestions, and observations. You can contact me.
My Upcoming Gardening Book
Gardening is a form of communication all its own – shortcut to the language of the heart, not the mind. Raising tomatoes, beans, roses or even native plants is a means of positive communication between all folks, young and old, physically able and physically and intellectually challenged, between all ranges of political, social, and philosophical differences.
I hope you find this book helpful and resourcesful.
