The Riverwalk Grand Opening looks to be another fun filled day at the Pearl Farmer’s Market. Here are some of the items I will be bringing to the market on May 30th. If you have any specific requests, please e-mail me at jonelle@jd2ranch.com or call me at 830 393-5233. Please check out our website: www.jd2ranch.com to see photos of our plants. Our gardening blog will also have additional information on the farmer’s market and on gardening [...]
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Lately we have been having a rash of jackrabbits (5 -7 at a time) and deer going through our gardens. In fact at least one rabbit is so brave as to try and build a burrow in my main demonstration garden. When you get close he just looks at you and only moves a couple of feet away. Since we don’t have a dig to chase them off, I have started letting my kids run after them. Now it actually pretty funny to watch two 6 year olds running after jackrabbits throughout the yard. Now since I can’t always depend on my kids to be around when the rabbits come into the yard, we are going to try some other measures to keep them out. A friend of mine who runs a good sized farm with lots of vegetables told us that they use fish emulsion 4 – 5 times to deter both the deer and [...] Yesterday was a very busy and long day. First Marty was at the Pearl Farmer’s Market and I was over at the Festival of Flowers. Marty did really well at the Farmer’s Market. I know he couldn’t answer a lot of questions – but for him even answering the simple questions is [...] Pearl Farmer’s Market May [...] This Saturday will be an especially busy weekend. First Marty will be holding down the fort at the Pearl Farmer’s Market Saturday morning. Please be kind and gentle with him – he is NOT a gardener. He will have some bare root daylilies, some bulbine (see yesterday’s blog), some neat little sunflowers, some sedums, and a few other things. All in all it will be pretty simple for him. The sunflowers that he will have are shorties. The first one Sunbright Kids – only gets to be about 8″ tall, and the second one Sundance Kids gets between 15 – 17″ tall. Both are great for containers and for the front of the [...] When I moved from California to south Texas, there were a number of plants I had never seen before or worked with in gardening. To name a few – Pride of Barbados, esperanza, clump forming bouganvilla (in California it is always used as a large vine/tree on the sides of houses or fences – but that is another blog), Mexican ruella, and bulbine. When a friend gave me some bulbine initially – I was in such desperate need of anything green that I could garden with (our new house had very little garden space – that has now changed) that I took it, but I wasn’t very impressed. Well that has changed [...] Yesterday was the Grand Opening of the Pearl Farmer’s Market with all the booth’s cutting their red ribbons and it was a fantastic day. Lots and lots and lots of people. We did end up closing a little early because of the rain – yippee for the rain! (We ended up getting just under 2 inches here at the ranch.) I sold out of the 4″ Peacock Orchids/Absyyinian Glads and out of my bare root [...] May Daylily Pictures Double Click Any Image for a larger view Jason Salter Wild Wookie Yellowthunder Carpenter Mystic Mariner Free Wheelin Clueless Double His Highness In Style
Assemetry Good Morning America Pat needs our help identifying her blooming unknown [...] Peacock Orchids are really gladioli. The flowers look like they should be an orchid, hence one of the common names. These are a perennial glad in south Texas. They are also a very easy plant. Plant them in full sun to part [...] |
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