Though it seems just yesterday that we were harvesting garlic from our gardens, it’s already time to start thinking about next year’s crop. If you decide to order your seed garlic directly, July and August are good times to submit your pre-orders to reserve your garlic for October delivery.
The “Dallas Tomato Trials” started as a way to justify an overzealous heirloom seed shopping spree. Six months and one pandemic later, the success of the trial can be measured in both newfound knowledge and newfound community. The trial started conversations, created shared experiences, and delivered a sense of purpose during uncertain, stressful times.
There are two things that let me know it’s summertime in Dallas: the smell of fresh cut grass and the taste of homegrown tomatoes. And…
What’s all the fuss about fall tomatoes in North Texas? When properly managed, fall tomatoes can even outperform the spring tomato crop. Here are the seven steps to growing fall tomatoes in your North Texas garden.
Late May and early June is the time to start seeds for fall tomatoes in North Texas. Here are some tips for getting started.
Growing onions in the North Texas garden is easy and rewarding. Bad luck in the past? Growing onions for the first time? The following steps will make all your onion dreams come true.
Craig LeHoullier, reknowned tomato expert and author of “Epic Tomatoes”, named the Cherokee Purple tomato in 1990 after receiving a surprise gift of seeds from a John D. Green in Tennesee. Green explained that the seeds came from his neighbor who claimed that the seeds were given to his family by Cherokee Indians a hundred years prior.
Though your first tomatoes of the year are barely ripening, it’s already time to start thinking ahead to the second growing season in North Texas.…
The universal guideline for planting garlic is 4-6 weeks before the ground freezes. Since it is rare for the ground to completely freeze in North Texas, gardeners here customarily plant garlic in mid-October. This is when garden centers are stocked with seed garlic and when online orders start to ship. Garlic can safely be planted in North Texas through November.
Here in North Texas, we are lucky enough to grow vegetables year-round. Despite a scorching hot summer, we have a relatively mild winter, a warm spring, and a temperate fall.
