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The Travis County Master Gardener Association has a new home! Click to visit our new site. http://www.tcmastergardener.org.
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This site will become the home of Gardening Naturally in Central Texas, A Compendium of Gardening Information, Tips and Opinions over the next several months.
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Welcome to the Editor’s Page
A Compendium of Garden Related Information
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A GARDENER’S RESOLUTIONS FOR THE NEW YEAR
This year I will:
- Buy that top-of-the-line hand tool I have been dreaming of and take good care of it, too.
- Plant something for the birds and bees to enjoy. Some sunflowers, salvias, lantana and Turk’s cap.
- Adopt a native flower, shrub or tree.
- Plant an extra row of veggies and donate them to the local food bank.
- Grow heirloom varieties along with the new, ‘improved’ ones. See which does better for me.
- Add a fun garden ornament to the landscape—a gazing ball, wind chime.
- Feed my soil, not my plants. (Make compost!)
- Introduce at least one child to the wonders and joys of gardening.
- Read a gardening book and grow some new ideas for my garden.
- Start a garden journal so I can remember when that inch of rain really fell.
- Wear sun protection and gloves. Drink lots of water and stretch before I start my gardening chores.
- Reduce my stress levels and get my exercise and fresh air by weeding and lifting bags of potting soil.
- Give thanks for all the miracles of life and growth surrounding me in my garden.
- Take time to smell the roses and pet the cats and dogs and watch more sunsets.
- Grow Local/eat fresh.
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QUOTE OF THE MONTH
Soil . . . scoop up a handful of the magic stuff. Look at it closely. What wonders it holds as it lies there in your palm. Tiny sharp grains of sand, little faggots of wood and leaf fibre, infinitely small round pieces of marble, fragments of shell, specks of black carbon, a section of vertebrae from some minute creature. And mingling with it all the dust of countless generations of plants and flowers, trees, animals and – yes – our own, age-long forgotten forebears, gardeners of long ago. Can this incredible composition be the common soil?
Stuart Maddox Masters, The Seasons Through (1948)
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