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The Garden Guide for Austin & Vicinity is temporarily out of stock and in the process of being updated and reprinted. Expected to be available in early fall of 2009.

Award-winning book about gardening in central Texas. Learn more. Buy on-line.

Site Updated
7.3.09.

From my Window.....

 

 

Summer 2009

July-got rain? We really need some.

Have never seen such a terrible drought. Very little rain in June, had to turn the cattle into the hay pasture so they would have some green grass to eat and buy some local hay to feed them as the summer moves on and continues to dry out.

Anyone know some good rain dances or rain prayers?

 

Visit me at the new Bastrop 1832 Farmers Market, 1302 Chestnut Street at the Railroad Tracks.  Tuesday 2:30 - 6 pm and Saturday 10 am -2 pm.

The Market continues to surprise me in the quantity and quality of the fresh vegetables offered every time I go to market. How do these farmers do it? Continue in the face of such hard times and bring such good food to market. Come check it out for yourself. You will be amazed and even grateful for all their hard work.

 
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New location and a new Market. Bastrop 1832 Farmers Market. See web site: www.bastrop1832farmersmarket.org

Dolores Svoboda Leeper
Owner / Grower
Scented Pleasures Herbs & Gifts
Herbs for Central Texas
Handcrafted Herbal Gifts
for Home & Body
512-360-4502
dololeeper@wildblue.net

 

 


Time to mulch and water the plants you want to save. Try some sea weed fertilizer to help plants withstand the stress of heat and drought.

Water deeply when you do water, give your plants a good drink, not a sprinkle. Try watering at night for maximum water absorption.

 


Summer is here, tomatoes are ripe and delicious. Great quantities of okra, squash, peppers, cucumbers. Yum!

 

Basil, a wonderful, tasty
warm-weather herb. It really likes the heat if you keep it watered and mulched.

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