This month’s featured gardeners are Lloyd and Marie Krenek. Lloyd and Marie are outstanding gardeners that have been cultivating vegetables, ornamentals and fruit and nut trees on their Brazoria property for the last 51 years. Lloyd grows it and Marie cans it! They love their…
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By Patty G. LeanderContributing Editor Nothing heralds the arrival of summer quite like a cold, crisp slice of watermelon, dripping with juicy sweetness. Watermelons, like tomatoes, are best enjoyed in season and fully ripe, and fortunately Texas has no shortage of top-notch growers and watermelon…
By Patty G. Leander Contributing Editor As a new year approaches, our mailboxes fill with an avalanche of the latest seed catalogs, full of luscious photos, enticing descriptions and new releases. Every year, I review my notes from past seasons, talk with other vegetable gardeners,…
By Keith Hansen Contributing Writer Looking for an attractive and easy fruit tree for your yard? Try the Asian, Oriental, Kaki or Japanese persimmon (Diospyros kaki). This handsome small tree with several common names is perfectly adapted to most of Texas (zones 7–9) with the…