How is your garden looking today?

It's great to see how things are coming along.

It's pretty obvious I'm not your tidy gardener.



That border just may be completed in my lifetime.

If I took a photo now, you'd be seeing weeds.. right now they are not hard to pull as we've recently had rain. On the other hand, more weed seeds will sprout.

All last week our daytime temps were in the high 70's. We might have touched 80. I am quite sure that many folks were lulled into believing that they could plant stuff this past weekend.
Sunday and Monday nights we got frost. It could happen again tonight.
My dad used to say wait until Mother's Day, when the air and earth were warm.

There is a guy down closer to town who always has a big tomato garden.I see him every so often at the post office. LAst week he said that he was going to put in a bunch of early tomatoes. He did, and we also had frost.
His garden is out beyond a field nxt to his barn and I think his tomatoes got it.

I'm used to harvesting rhubarb in early to mid-June. Ack, it's out there now! It's a big short, but it's already harvestable. At hamburgboy's suggestion, I'll probably be covering it on the weekend.

Rhubarb? Dust off the pie tins for rhubarb pie? I have never grown it.

Around here, rhubarb almost grows itself.

I've never made rhubarb pie. I usually just make something that translates as "red stew". Rhubarb stewed with whatever other red fruit you've got on hand - cherries/strawberries/red currants/raspberries. The natural pectin in the rhubarb helps it set up into a thick stew as it chills. mrs. hamburger served it with warm vanilla custard sauce. I've done that on occasion - but good vanilla ice cream is also nice with "red stew".

I like your garden Neko, wish we could have one. We have a half-acre lot but two septic fields take up most of the space where we'd want a garden and the neighbor next door has his septic alongside our front yard. Guess that wouldn't be good fertilizer?

We worked so hard last year planting basic foundation stuff only to lose about 4 flowering shrubs because of that drought. So, we bought three hybisquis that grow 10 ft. tall and they appear as shrubs already ($10 ea.). We didn't lose any trees but 3 of them looked sick all winter (scared me to death). Texas without oak trees means lowerpricedhouse.

So, I'm pulling weeds by the pound, sweeping up brown stuff from the live oak trees by the ton (2 times daily) so the mess doesn't turn the deck and walk tacky brown. This house is tough to keep up, and we don't care a heck about bare spots in the lawn from the brown stuff. Most of our neighbors had beautiful st. augustine lawns and lost them last summer so now they appear just like ours. Ha. We're taking this summer off. Our backs are sore.

Thanks. I know the challenges of Texas gardening. Wish you
all the luck that can come your way. But I do know roses do
well there. At least they do in Bell county...

I hope you can see where I'm headed here.



That yew hedge is supposed to showcase the flowering shrubs
and perennials at the front of it.

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is that a smoke tree?

Here's a video of the raised veggie beds I built this year. I'm trying out the square foot gardening method. After the 10x4x3 ft boxes were built and filled with compost, I installed an edging that has irrigation tubing and punched holes in the tubing to direct water toward the plants and connected the tubing to the garden hose for easy and even watering. So far, most of the seeds have come up, are pest free and doing well.

It looking great with colorful flowers & nice fragrance..

The frontyard is a worksite at the moment, but only
for a few more days.

An early morning view.

Update view as of this morning.



Brickwork is set on crushed stone in which perforated drainpipe is set and extended
downslope toward the street. Surface is rilted slightly away from the hose, and away
from the property line.

Scillas are in bloom now.

My japanese garden in backyard from family room deck.

Looking fine, ci; how's this for contrast.

A cold grey April morning here at Wistful Vista.



Too muddy to do anything.

neko, When we had major renovations done a couple of years ago to our home, the contractor suggested a drainage system around the house to prevent the cracks in our walls. That really helped, and during the past several years, all I've needed to do were some small touch-up work. We were lucky enough that our property sits higher on our street, so the water drains very well.

Nice, CI, I like it.