Lazy Gardener & Friends
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2025 Newsletters
Lazy Gardener & Friends Issue 597: Safety, Smart Gardening Tips, and Mulch Advice for Houston Gardens
Funny how gardening tips for older gardeners often help everyone! Brenda Beust Smith shares safety tricks, lightweight tools. Get soil wisdom for thriving gardens from John Ferguson..
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Fall in Houston means it’s time to think bulbs—but not always the same ones planted up north. From tulips that need pre-chilling to flood-loving Louisiana irises and cannas, Brenda Beust Smith shares bulb-planting tips, storm-ready advice, and a preview of the Garden Club of Houston’s 2025 Bulb & Plant Mart.
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PRAYING FOR MORE SURVIVORS
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“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet”
A few most popular summer rose questions
Pollinators , Glyphosate and cancer
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NOW — BEFORE 100º+ BECOMES REGULAR THREAT — PREPARE TO PROTECT PRECIOUS PLANTS!
Growing plants, Human and Animal Health
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“Floods are ‘acts of God’; but flood losses are largely acts of man”
Thinking about your own yard and gardens … want FREE advice?
Food safety, Foraging
2024 Newsletters
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DO OUR PLANTS WISH WE’D HELP BIRDS STICK AROUND ALL WINTER? YES, THEY DO!
Compost
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WITH WINTER COMES DIFFERENT (NEW?)
GARDEN OUTLOOKS!
DESPITE CHALLENGES, GINGERS REALLY DO LIKE HOUSTON AREA!
Mulch
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NEW MOON AT WORK — MILD WINTER OUTLOOK GOOD NEWS FOR PLANTS
Molybdenum
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Thanksgiving Issue
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GRAB WHAT’S LEFT OF 2024 TO ENJOY YOUR GARDEN BEFORE PREDICTED FIRST FREEZE
BARONS – Money, Power, and the Corruption of America’s Food Industry by Austin Frerick, Island Press, 2024, ISBN: 978-1642832-693
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COTTAGE GARDENING TIPS GOOD ROUTE FOR ALL OUR GARDENS!
Benefits of Gardening
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SALUTING A GARDENER EXTRAORDINAIRE
TIME TO BE ‘FORCE-FUL’ WITH BULBS FOR HOLIDAYS!
Hybrid plants and nutrients in our food
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“Boo-tiful treats for the garden!
HOME GARDENS AND PRAIRIES — LEARNING TO LIVE TOGETHER
Manure-based fertilizers
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Didn’t realize goldenrod has so many fans — wow! Looking ahead to more color…
IS ALL COPACETIC IN YOUR VEGGIE PATCH?
CAMELLIAS: QUEENS OF THE WINTER GARDEN
Books: Soil Science for Regenerative Agriculture and The Regenerative Agricultural Solution
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“Ah, Walt, what have you wrought?”
Fungi intelligence fungi and sound GMO soy
2023 Newsletters
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Thanksgiving Issue
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COMMUNITY GARDENS (LIKE BEAUTY’S) GREAT RESOURCES FOR WINNERS FOR YOUR AREA
Herbicides (glyphosate) and health
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WE SPEND A LOT OF MONEY ON PLANTS
~THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX!
Carbon pollination plants sound black cumin ungi leather
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Saving our Earth, one landscape at a time
CAMELLIAS — QUEEN OF WINTER BLOOMERS! HYDROPONICS WORTH TRYING!
Glyphosate fluoride & IQ tree sweat EMF and health
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Lookin’ for marigolds for Dia de los Muertos?
WHEN LIFE HANDS YOU A LANDSCAPE LEMON . . .
Tires – elderberry – bumble bees leaf mulch.
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SECRET WISH? SECRET WITCH? SECRET GARDEN? OR, JUST AN HERB LOVER?
COOL WEATHER HERBS PLANTING CALENDAR
Straw mulch glyphosate food contamination seaweed extracts cover
crops and tarping birds and metal health
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‘HOUSTON’S DIVERSE ECOLOGY’ CHALLENGE FOR GARDENERS BUT NATIVES ARE THRIVING!
fungi-algae bioinoculants sprayable mulch gardening and mental bees
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‘I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers’
TEXAS TOUGH NATIVES LIFT COLLECTION
TO NEXT LEVEL!
Fluoride Frogfruit ginger edible fungi and books diet and dementia