Consumers can avoid eating pesticide residue on fruit and vegetables by buying organically grown at local farmer’s markets or growing your own. According to the report on Yahoo below, there are many pesticides and chemicals that remain in our fruit and vegetables even after peeling them! It’s not hard to grow your own and Farmer’s
My home in Leander, Texas is one of the ponds on the Austin Pond Society Night Tour tonight, 7/18/09 from 8:00pm to 11:00pm. My Home, an Austin Pond Society Feature This Austin, Texas event is great for people who like looking at beautiful yards & water features. It’s a great way to get ideas for
With record setting high heat, drought, and lake levels getting lower and lower it seems that xeriscaping would be all the rage in Central & South Texas but it’s not. Who started the fad of growing these expansive water hogging St. Augustine (“carpet” grass) lawns anyway? I have yet to know the full history behind
one of my artichoke plants is now budding out. In the artichoke world this means “bearing fruit”, or “putting on artichokes”. I am so excited since this is a long awaited event.
An Invasive Plant Workshop will be held at the Austin Nature & Science Center by the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center and the City of Austin Parks and Recreation Dept. Saturday, May 30th, 2009 from 9:00am to 4:00pm at the Austin Nature & Science Center in Austin, Texas.
“Mow Down Smog” is the catchy phrase for the Central Texas Electric Lawnmower Program. Trade your dirty, polluting old lawnmower in on a cleaner, electric model.
Spring has sprung in the Austin Texas area. The red buds & mountain laurels are blooming, the weather is mild & Sunshine Community Gardens at 4814 Sunshine Drive, Austin, TX is having their annual Spring Plant Sale March 7th, 2009 from 9am to 2pm. Knowledgeable gardeners will be there to help inform attendees about Spring
Lawn Grass in Leander & Cedar Park Texas For those whose lawns look weathered and barren now. remember, we are in the dead of winter- the grass has been dormant but will come to life soon. We had a horribly harsh summer with the drought a dry first part of the winter and we are