Hill Country Gardens
Gardening in the Texas Hill Country
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Gardening in Central Texas
What's New
A New Garden
Stay tuned to my experiment with vegetable gardening.
Finally, a raised bed where I can hope to grow a few tomatoes, some herbs and a variety of seasonal greens. It's taken 10 years to find a solution to vegetable gardening on a limestone slope.
I've just gotten started but as soon as I have lessons to share I'll post it in the blog.
Stay tuned.
NICE! Preserve the Hill Country heritage & habitat The NICE plant for May 2011 is the Lyre leaf, Tropical & Cedar sages.
In 2002 the Boerne chapter of the Native Plant Society of Texas came up with an idea to promote the use of native plants and N.I.C.E (native plants instead of common exotics) was born.
The mission is to
Visit the Boerne chapter of NPSOT for details.
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Gardening in the Texas Hill Country is both a joy and a misery.
Those of us who garden have found a challenge, literally, in our own backyard. We've been there and have created this site to share some of our hard won knowledge with fellow gardeners. From making the most of those darned rocks to what the deer might leave alone, we'll share with you and invite you to share your knowledge with us. Let's dig!
We know what it's like to put that shovel into solid rock, to move in yards of soil and plant hundreds of dollars worth of plants only to have them devoured overnight by those adorable whitetails.
We'll try to give you a few tips and tricks to make the most of what God has given us here in Central Texas.
Named as resource for cover article January/February 2007