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My husband, a 2005 transplant from Wisconsin, is simply 
amazed that our soil never freezes and is enjoying 
gardening 12 months a year. He's out there raising beds as 
we speak. We have been enjoying seven kinds of lettuce, 
arugula, turnip greens, three kinds of kale, and chard for 
over a month. Our seed grown transplants of cauliflower, 
broccoli, brussels sprouts, bok choy, and kohlrabi are 
ready to be planted this week. I hope to get some photos 
posted to our blog and will email the link when I do.

I've noticed plenty of bees in the garden drinking from 
the drip irrigation lines, but I haven't seen them on the 
peach and apricot trees which are now in full bloom nearer 
the house.

The flip side to living in such a temperate zone is 
sometimes it gets too hot when the tomato, pepper, and 
eggplant seedlings need to be set out and we have to erect 
tents with old sheets over everything to shade them while 
they take root. The garden begins to look like a hobo 
camp!

--Sage

Way Out in Texas


On Sat, 8 Mar 2008 15:32:49 -0500
 "Lisa K.V. Perry" <lisakvperry AT gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 8:42 PM, <eureka AT hctc.net> wrote:
>
> > For those of you still mired in winter, I am sending
> > pleasant thoughts--we harvested and ate our first
> > asparagus of spring tonight here in southwest Texas!!
>
>
> Wow, asparagus in early March. Like when we grew the 
> most beautiful red
> peppers until Thanksgiving in Charleston, SC. Can't 
> imagine gardening in a
> climate such as TX or coastal SC right now, meanwhile 
> we're getting light
> flurries but the leaves of the daffodils are above 
> ground and the first
> crocus opened two days ago.
>
> Lisa
> sw VA
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