April 12 , 2018
Super Foods, Super Cinder Block Vegetable Garden
The medulla parade continue with Johnson ’s amaryllis ( Hippeastrumxjohnsonii ) , a dependable comeback in sun to part refinement , even on my Blackland Prairie ground . This one gets bright shade most of the solar day until former good afternoon when Sunday blasts it . Around town , I depend you ’ve seen this a lot : cycad ( sago palm ) with striped brown leaves . San Antonio gardener Rebecca Savage ’s cycad looks about the same . This is stop dead damage . merely cut off the bad leaves to the trunk . New ones will emerge . Long rise gloves make the chore less painful !
But Rebecca ’s spineless barbed Pyrus communis is in big trouble . Daphne explains what to do about itand how to protect sago palm during strain below freeze day . In my experience , aboriginal Texas salvia / cenizo ( Leucophyllum frutescens ) can be really ugly or very fine-looking , like this one . Although the flower do n’t undertake pelting — just high humidity — they do foretell stacks of bees and other pollinators . Daphne explain what you need for a beautiful , drought sturdy cenizo . Rain drenches , especially in heavier grime , can take out our silvery plants rapidly . I lost a Salvia ‘ Newe Ya’ar ’ ( a hybrid ofS. officinalisandS. fruticosa ) to a rain bomb calorimeter last class . Just 17 ’ out at the close of the bed , this one did n’t even wilt , or lose during our extended 20 ° days this winter . Lack of sunshine , space or good soil is easily remedied by growing in containers . There are countless new hybrids of miniature / dwarf vegetables that work fine in a container in a cheery spot ( even along a driveway).John demonstrates a few options for small spaces , including tomatoes in bags!As “ super foods ” enter our dietary mental lexicon and recipes , we ’re funny how to actually grow them . David K. Sargert fromIt ’s About Thymeexplains how to maturate plants with potent welfare . A LEED semi - retired designer , David wanted to study more about gardening organically and to find solace in develop plants . He join the IAT team and began exploring healthful plants , many with origin in India . get wind how to uprise gotu kola , snake gourd , bitter melon , amaranth , neem tree diagram and curry tree diagram . His dried curry tree leaves were a hit at KLRU and season many formula right now!Tender tropical moringa ’s one of the most superintendent of the super foods and quite easy to turn here . This one ’s in Ratna and Venkappa Gani ’s garden . David brought along tippy tropical henna , popular for homemade tattoos and coloring hair . see now for the scoop on super plants!Check out David ’s remarkable plant photo onFacebook ! This one ’s the flower of Viper snake gourd , one that he includes on CTG.In casing you missed it , see howRatna and Venkappa grow many of these plants , include curry Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree . On tour in San Antonio , Christine Cunningham Alcorta and Richard Alcorta discover a solution for growing on rocky soil : cinder blocks . Richard loves to cook and they both wanted the fresh taste of pick - to - kitchen choice ( like super hot peppers ) that are n’t readily available in grocery memory board . To protect their many varieties of Lycopersicon esculentum and other critter - darling crop , Richard built a cedar frame to drop anchor plastic Poultry Hex garden fencing netting . Rather than caging his tomato , he strings them up . Makes harvesting easy , too!The netting also work for climbers like squash and summer Malabar prickly-seeded spinach . Compost - enrich clinker blocks confine ambitious herbs like mint . The deep middle seam affirm crops like white potato vine . There ’s always something in season for Richard ’s 5 - sensation formula . Asiatic Draco yield , a genus of cactus , is the only works they protect from freeze , by from their citrus fruit . Its glorious peak produce sweet , richly dark fruit in summer . Table and vino grapeshot run well in their jumpy soil and even shield the terrace , where plucking is easy . Since they receive beneficial wildlife to their flowers , Richard devised a wine bottleful waterfall where birds and small creatures run into the bottle!See how Richard and Christinefry up ingurgitate squash racquets flower blossoms!Watch their wonderful story mightily now !
Thanks for terminate by ! See you next calendar week , Linda
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