By Patty G. Leander Contributing Editor Americans love their tomatoes, especially when sliced on a hamburger, chopped in a salad, spread on a pizza or processed into ketchup, juice or pasta sauce. But to a vegetable gardener, the fruit of Solanum lycopersicum (formerly classified as…
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By Steven Chamblee Contributing Writer Texas is blessed with wonderfully mild winters that are punctuated with a dozen or two days of Arctic misery. The winters allow Lone Star gardeners to grow color plants year-round. The reliable terrific trio of pansies, kale and snapdragons fill…
Winter is not a favorite time of year for most folks when it comes to gardening. The bright flowers of summer are a faded memory. The colorful leaves of fall have mostly dropped to the ground. The days grow shorter as we approach the winter…
By William Scheick Contributing Editor Climate specialists define November through February as the Central Texas cool season. Anyone who has seen children perspiring uncomfortably inside their Halloween costumes knows why October is omitted from the cool-season category. Even so, reasonable hopes for autumnal herbs begin…