August 30 , 2018
Get Growing with CTG’s New Season!
By now , I can scarcely remember when it was n’t soulfulness - scorching spicy ( 50 days at 100 + point and calendar week of 90 + so far ) . I ’ve kidded that I ’d make up to go see rain , and proudly portion out my locomotion picture to “ Rain . ” Alas , so far that “ record album ” only take May ’s Garden Bloggers Fling in Austin . CTG ca n’t do anything about the heat or drought , but we can tackle its impingement as we quetch off our free fall time of year on September 7!Find out how to hike that trite stain with Marissa Lankes , Sustainable Agriculture Specialist at ACC ’s Sustainable Agriculture Program in Elgin . Meet Alejandra Rodriguez Boughton , possessor of urban farm La Flaca , and why she left banking to domesticate a raw residential area need . Her horticulturist sidekick Ben Carroll bear witness off ethnic crops that flap the heat , and explains why they do n’t grow Genoese St. Basil the Great in summer . Horticulturist Jay White , and new owner ofTexas Gardenermagazine with married woman Sally , explains how to passage summertime to go down crops in raging , ironic times . plunderer alert : start watering that soil now so it ’s not a dry out - out sponge when time to plant . Jay Arredondo from Desert to Tropics wows us with succulents for in - land heat and drought , as well as positively gorgeous must - haves that are worth protecting in winter . aim like a pro in low infinite with Yarrow Landscaping ’s Mandi Golman and Jade Florence , who institute sustainable solutions ( include floodwater ascendancy and rain collection ) and wildlife into their designs . Since garden are never stable , see why interior designer Diana Kirby responded to changes at home and how microclimates guided her choices . see James Barela bend a swelling of clay into artistic containers and why he launched Baetanical . Trisha Shirey ’s been a dear part of the CTG squad for many years . She ’s also a earnest ally who ’s learn me so much!She ’s headed to the DFW region for a Modern adventure , so this gloam , we ’ll enclose a few newfangled friends and some you already experience . As they say , last out tune up for more ! But you could always watch all of Trisha ’s timeless section on CTG’sYouTube line .
Thanks for stopping by ! unite us September 7 or online atwww.centraltexasgardener.orgto get growing !
Linda
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