A Yard With No Lawn.
by
Bob Pool
Posted in: Blog Posts in Gardening
It's been a busy winter with lots of hard work and many decisions made on major garden design changes. A few years ago, when we had fifteen inches of rain in two days, the e ...
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Trapping Ant Lions
by
Bob Pool
Posted in: Blog Posts in Gardening
Most country folk and a some city folk know what an ant lion is. They make the little funnel shaped holes in the ground in dry loose dirt. When an ant or other little bug ha ...
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Unusual Find
by
Bob Pool
Posted in: Blog Posts in Gardening
I was coming back to the house today on CR 258, a little country road that winds it's way by Lake Georgetown. I saw what looked like a black bird in the road dead. As I got ...
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Snake Bit Dog
by
Bob Pool
Posted in: Blog Posts in Gardening
Tuesday morning found me sitting on the porch, drinking a cup of coffee and talking to Lyn's brother from Las Vegas. He was really enjoying the quiet of the country and the ...
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Hill Country Natives
by
Bob Pool
Posted in: Blog Posts in Gardening
Hill Country Natives had their annual shindig this past weekend and it was bigger and better than ever. They have a lot of my work as well as the work of some talented artis ...
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Poppy Party
by
Bob Pool
Posted in: Blog Posts in Gardening
An internet friend in northern California sent me several ounces of poppy seeds last year. In the fall I mentioned to Lyn that she might want to sprinkle a few seeds around ...
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Winter Chores
by
Bob Pool
Posted in: Blog Posts in Gardening
While it looks like spring it could still get cold. In fact there is a fire in the stove right now as it is going to be around 40 degrees tonight. We have heated our house w ...
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Winter Invasion
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Bob Pool
Posted in: Blog Posts in Gardening
I always have some Henbit. Not a lot mind you, just some. Usually it grows in the pebble walkways of the vegi gardens. However, there is so little as to have never been cons ...
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A New Year
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Bob Pool
Posted in: Blog Posts in Gardening
I'm so glad that 2011 is over, it was not a good year here at Draco. After Lyn fell and broke her arm in March, a compound fracture that required plates and screws, her back ...
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Man It's Hot
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Bob Pool
Posted in: Blog Posts in Gardening
It's not only hot but it's dry as well. I have only had 1 7/8" of rain here since the first of the year. I'm praying that the well holds up so we have water to the house. Ha ...
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Garden Metalwork
by
Bob Pool
Posted in: Blog Posts in Gardening
Metal worker by trade and gardener by hobby, it's nice for me when the two come together. It seems metal just goes well in the garden, the lawn or the patio. I always consid ...
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Wandering Buffalo
by
Bob Pool
Posted in: Blog Posts in Gardening
Agnes Plutino was one of the first people I met when I joined the Georgetown chapter of the Native Plant Society. She certainly must be one of the nicest people I've ever me ...
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Bugs
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Bob Pool
Posted in: Blog Posts in Gardening
While most gardeners are always on the look out for bugs, fly fishers are as well. Gardeners try to determine if they are good or bad, anglers try to determine if they would ...
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Important Native
by
Bob Pool
Posted in: Blog Posts in Gardening
While hunkered down under a piece of farm equipment I was supposed to repair, the rancher that owned it was bent over, looking into the grass. I thought he had lost somethin ...
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Quality Tools
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Bob Pool
Posted in: Blog Posts in Gardening
As the shank of the little garden trowel broke, my hand shoved the handle on down into the soil, my index finger sliding over the edge of the blade. I looked at the finger a ...
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Winter, Blahs
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Bob Pool
Posted in: Blog Posts in Gardening
Winter, my least favorite time of the year. I look out at the barren emptiness of my gardens and grimace. How I miss the green tendrils of vines growing across pathways, mak ...
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Year of The Caterpillar
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Bob Pool
Posted in: Blog Posts in Gardening
This has certainly been the year of the caterpillar. I had more this year than any year I can remember. It certainly makes me wonder what causes over abundances of certain c ...
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Porter Weed
by
Bob Pool
Posted in: Blog Posts in Gardening
Last year, Pam, that has the blog Digging http://http//www.penick.net/digging/ , let every one in the bloggersphere know about a great plant she had that was a real winner i ...
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