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This journal is covering the plant side of our new adventure. We bought 12.88acres in July 2021. We are now moved in and I want to get started on landscaping. ToDo - Confirm extended decks future locations. - Determine which plant guilds would be good along future living fence along north...

I'm south of Dallas Fort Worth, Texas. These plants are growing in my sheep pasture. The berries are small about thumb size and turn brown/black as they age. Are they toxic to livestock or humans?

I'm near DFW texas. I have another one I can't figure out. Tree is approx 20ft tall. The branches have thorns and the thorns have leaves growing off them.

I'm near Dallas- Fort Worth, Texas. I just purchased 12.88 to build our ranch. I need some help with plant ID. Neither of the apps I have found these. I remember being told this one is bad for people. The berries are bright purple when ripe and about blueberry size. This one I've never seen...

Does anyone have favorite plant ID app or book? Closing on 12.9 acres and need to ID everything. I'm in central texas.

So I have a tiny, miniscule, vanishingly small pot of money to use as downpayment to buy land. I also have to stay close to my day jobs. I found a random plot of land- 7.46acres on straddling the city limits for $175k. 2.16acres is inside city limits and has utilities available. Yawn, boring...

Not doing much this year with all the move crazyness. My blueberry is doing well and has a full crop rippening. I plan on buying stawberry tower and planting it out. Also some peppers in the pot that had the orange tree. In other news, we may be buying land soon. We've been looking at...

I am setting up a portable greywater systems soon near Dallas-Fort Worth, zone 8a. The requirements to be legal are pretty simple. I also found plenty of recommendations on soaps. What I need advice on is the plants to put in my sub-irrigated planters. No root crops allowed. They need to be...

So my entire garden consists of raised beds. A mix of 24" plastic barrels and 18" tall wood bed. The barrels are super smooth so don't seem How do I get the bug predators like toads and skinks to climb in and eat to their hearts content? I have plenty of tiny frogs, skinks, etc in the...

Have a funny to share... Talking with my new boss about weekend plans. Said I was glad rain held off cause I was sheet mulching my garden this weekend. During conversation also mentioned I was a little wistful my youngest was potty training and my cardboard supply would dry up. She gave me this...

So weather is starting to feel spring like. Working on clearing all the dead vines from last year and prep for this year. I also have my local water spigot ready to go- hose, soaker hose, and tree subwater system plumbed in. Trenching across the yard by hand was a pain. I moved the strawberry...

So being the OCD person I am, I looked up Baytown's animal ordinances again when I got the wild hare *HA* to get rabbits again. Apparently you must own a huge lot to have rabbits. [Offense. Under this chapter, it shall be unlawful for any person to intentionally or knowingly keep or maintain...

This is a really neat article I stumbled across about Mediterranean fruit production in Europe before greenhouses. https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2015/12/fruit-walls-urban-farming.html

So there will be a hard freeze this weekend along the coast. Wondering how much piping at the plant will burst. Last plant looked like a sprinkler system when it warmed up. Makes me glad I didn't buy any of the fruit trees already leafed out and flowering at Home Depot. Right now I only have a...

I have my garden plan, I think. The available space is about 14' deep swath along back fence line. All containers cause 1) it's a rental, 2) the 7' utilities easement is chock full of communication, natural gas, and electrical lines, and 3) it should be easy to fence off if/when we get dogs...

I am trying to figure out fruit or nut trees that will grow in Baytown, TX zone 9a, approx 400 chill hours. I keep finding trees listed as zone compatible but needing 600+ chill hours. How important is the chill hours matching? Confused... Family likes apples and pears.

I was on the forum before but life got in the way. My only gardening to date has been keeping my bird of paradise alive for 8 years, 3 states, and 11 moves. So I am starting over from scratch in new climate (Baytown, TX). I hope to stay in current house for several years but everything will...

I am trying to clean up the flower bed along my house. It's was massively overgrown last year with tall grass. I've got all the grass pulled but I don't know if these should go too. Wild carrot? It had a really long taproot. I'm pretty sure this was planted intentionally but I don't know what...

Hi All, The weather has been so weird this year. No snow and it is 45 oF today?! It has been running a good 10 degrees warmer than historical. This is my second winter here, so I don't know what to do? If it gets warm early, does it usually stay that way? I'm itching to start the garden for...

Finally closed on my house! Now just need to reclaim this from all the weeds! This tree is next to the garden and has dime sized berries on it. Does anyone know what it is and if they are edible for people, cats, dogs, and rabbits? This tree is very green but some of the branches are...