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Gulf Coast Gardening
Gulf Coast Gardening shares a wealth of information about …well…gardening. Here, you’ll find articles on vegetable gardens, landscaping, native plants, pests and beneficial insects. You’ll find DYI guides on planting times, when and how to fertilize, and tools you may need. You’ll also discover interesting new discoveries in gardening and soil management techniques. I hope you will benefit from these blogs and keep coming back to Gulf Coast Gardening.
Recent Article
All about Angel’s Trumpet (Brugmansia)
Angel’s Trumpet can grow from 6 to 35 feet tall and 3 to 10 feet wide, but I’ve seen some larger. The plant comes in many different varieties -from blue and purple, red, brilliant yellow, orange, and blushing pink. Angel’s trumpets are members of the Solanaceae family, which includes Belladonna,
Recent Blogs
March Garden Chores
Spring, for most of us in USD’s cold hardiness zones 9 and 10, arrives in March. It’s the best time to be gardening. As Francis Bacon said, “Gardening is the purest of human pleasures.” The most important thing you can do…before you put plants in, and even before you buy
Gardening Chores for April
Those tomatoes you planted in early March are flowering, promising a bumper crop. Daylilies are blooming. Hummingbirds are dominating your feeders, Turk’s Cap, and other high-nectar flowers. If you’re putting out birdseed, doves (I’ve had four species in my yard at one time), chick-a-dees, mockingbirds, wrens, woodpeckers, American goldfinches, cardinals,
May Garden Chores
May marks the beginning of the summer’s brutal heat along the Gulf Coast. Vegetables, annual ornamentals, perennials, fruit and other trees are feeling the heat. It’s time to step up your watering cycle for all your plants. Here are some things you need to do now to make sure they
August Garden Chores
Hot, hotter, hottest –the norm for this month along the Gulf coast. What gardeners like you and me need most is WATER! I’ve got seven 50 –gallon rain barrels in tandem, collecting water from my roof. Every time it rains, I get 350 gallons of clean rainwater, devoid of chemicals.
October Garden Chores
Can you already smell Fall in the air? October’s a great time to do garden chores…summer’s finally gone—and we get lots of summer here. It’s cooler to work in the garden. We have to take fewer breaks from the heat. And we all feel invigorated and ready to feel our
How to Get Rid of Yellow Nutsedge Organically
Yellow Nutsedge (Cyperus esculentis) is native to North America. Its habitat extends from southern Canada all the way south to Argentina. INSET:Although this looks like several plants, it is actually just one plant. Each plant is connected by fibrous roots, thick rhizomes and small tubers. The tubers are tiny nutlike
About
Gulf Coast Gardening
At Gulf Coast Gardening our desire is to provide information about gardening…not only for us green-thumb (and some of us “black thumb”) veterans but also for all our beginning gardeners.
There are about 16 million people living along the Gulf Coast in Zones 8 and 9. About 25% are home gardeners, which means that home gardeners along the Gulf coast from Corpus Christi to Tampa number about 4 million. That’s a lot of gardeners.
Some of us grow vegetables and fruit, some grow ornamentals, some grow indoor plants, and many of us do all these things. A third of us are over 35, while the number of those under 35 is increasing day by day.
I am interested in your feedback, questions, suggestions, and observations. You can contact me.
My Upcoming Gardening Book
Gardening is a form of communication all its own – shortcut to the language of the heart, not the mind. Raising tomatoes, beans, roses or even native plants is a means of positive communication between all folks, young and old, physically able and physically and intellectually challenged, between all ranges of political, social, and philosophical differences.
I hope you find this book helpful and resourcesful.
