January 3 , 2013
Winter drought care trees & wildflowers|Edibles meet perennials
Happy New Year ! undecomposed wishes to you all that 2013 sprinkle us with abundant joyfulness .
Unless we get a few serious sparge from above , we need to water our wild flower stem canker , like Lupinus subcarnosus . Thanks toJean WarnerforDaphne ’s head this week!Like Jean , my buffalo clover are up , along with larkspur and locoweed — so be careful out there when take out .
If you make a misapprehension like I have “ now and then , ” quickly plug away the keeper back in and water . Here are baby poppies , not aboriginal , but still so passably and dear by bees .
So , Jean wants to make out if freeze will harm her sizable crop of bluebonnet . As Daphne reports , frigid conditions is n’t a headache for our aboriginal wildflowers that emerge in fall to scrunch down as rosettes until the magic minute .
But deficiency of water system sure as shooting is . yearly , like Balmoral and many others , will wither away and never flower and seed for next year without moisture . And we certainly do n’t want to leave out pictures like this Flickr sequence , thanks toKLRU ’s Sara Robertsonand her baby ’s first Texas 2012 fountain !
want of pee is the reason we ’re losing valuable trees , too .
Tom joins consulting tree surgeon Don Gardnerto excuse why it materialize and what we can do .
Find out how far out to irrigate your Tree for their years and size . KLRU graphic designer Mark Pedini craft this to illustrate one of Don ’s significant points .
In drouth , the absorbing root get smaller and modest until eventually the tree only has woody , anchoring roots . Those fine self-feeder solution are what we must water to keep the tree live .
Check out Daphne ’s account of woody roots and whether we can plant over them .
Meet Don in personfor more tree care tips on January 26 at 2 p.m. at theLady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center ’s Tree Talk Winter Walk . This free event is from 9 a.m. -5 p.m.
follow this great TV from theTexas A&M Forest Servicefor more on water your Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree .
Not only do we call for to water our fruit trees , now is the meter to apply horticultural vegetable oil to stand off hibernating insects and their egg . John Dromgoole explicate howto help prevent pests like plum curculio and bacterial and fungal disease with proactive care . Oh , the first thing is to hygienise the garden — all yr long — by removing old leaves and yield from the ground .
If you do n’t have space for fruit Tree , I just bet you have a office to acquire pretty edibles , like this ‘ Joi Choi ’ bok choy !
Daphne ’s Pick of the Weekis something you’re able to pick and eat : wintertime edibles ! And no need to restrict them to an prescribed vegetable bed . insert them in among your perennial , like these at theTravis County Texas AgriLife Extension demonstration bedsin October .
Whether you eat it or not , nourishing Swiss chard is a beauty among wintertime annuals . Many of mine did n’t atmospheric condition summer ’s heat , but this one never stutter .
you may still plant wintertime pabulum among your sleeping perennial for a pop of delicious color . In fact , check out the Master Gardener ’s free workshopJanuary 17 on how to plant and save seed .
Daphne also suggestsletting some plants bolt or go to seed for their structural add-on and prime . With fall ’s warm conditions , many of our crops gobble ahead of time this twelvemonth , so go ahead and replant , like lettuce .
Molly O’Halloranshares thislettuce soup recipe(which she thickened with diced potatoes ) to habituate clams that ’s past its salad efflorescence .
Here ’s another intellect to “ assay it at home . ” calculate at the size of it of this carrot rise byNancy and Richard Simpsonin their class - pear-shaped organic vegetable garden !
I bet you all , like me , have the bushel - it - up bug . Here ’s some with child inspiration and bakshish from designer Annie Gillespie ofBotanical Concernsat her hillside garden .
Thanks for break off by ! See you next calendar week , Linda
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