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Lazy Gardener & Friends – 600 – Hummingbird Gardens, Mulch & Fall Planting in Houston
It’s officially World Hummingbird Awareness time! Migrating hummers are arriving across the Gulf Coast, and local experts share how to make your garden a true haven. Plus, tips on fall vegetable gardening, mulch insights, and local events for Houston-area gardeners.
Lazy Gardener & Friends – 599 – Gulf Coast Fall Gardening: Preparing for Storms, Mulching, and a Fresh Growing Season
Gulf Coast fall gardening is just beginning. Learn how to prepare for storms, improve soil with the right mulch, and make the most of one of the region’s best growing seasons with insights from Brenda Beust Smith and John Ferguson.
Lazy Gardener & Friends Article 598: Smart Fall Gardening Tips for Houston
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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..
Lazy Gardener & Friends 956
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.
Lazy Gardener & Friends 595
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PRAYING FOR MORE SURVIVORS
2024 Newsletters
Lazy Gardener & Friends 555
“If you are not killing plants, you are not really stretching yourself as a gardener!”
HUGELKULTURE: BUILDING FERTILE SOIL WITH WOOD LOGS
LOOKIN FOR A QUICKGROWING, COOL-SEASON VEGETABLE TO GROW?
Prairies GMO Atrazine Lawns and Climate Fluoride
Lazy Gardener & Friends 554
LET’S LIGHT-UP HOUSTON WITH NATIVE COLOR!!!
Soil Health
Lazy Gardener & Friends 553
‘IS IT FALL YET?’
health and environment
Lazy Gardener & Friends 552
SEPTEMBER, OCTOBER & EVEN NOVEMBER & DECEMBER are great months for us to plant…
Animal manures (part 3 of 3)
Lazy Gardener & Friends 551
“September tries its best to have us forget summer.”
BLOOMING BROMELIADS MAY SURPRISE YOU WITH CHANGES!
Subject: animal manures (part 2 of 3)
Lazy Gardener & Friends 550
TIMES WILL BE a’CHANGIN’ — ONE OF THESE DAYS!
Healing Gardens
Animal manures (part 1 of 3)
Lazy Gardener & Friends 549
HUMMERS ABOUND & DO & DON’T DO LAZY GARDENER TIPS!
What to do with all the storm cleanup mulch chips
Lazy Gardener & Friends 548
FALL? NOT YET FOR US . . . BUT SEPTEMBER DOES MEAN IT’S ACTUALLY COMING!
Soil microbes and health, cost of toxic ag chemicals, gardening chemicals and health
Lazy Gardener & Friends 547
…cause after the storm’s when the flowers bloom”
Food Quality and Health
Lazy Gardener & Friends 546
DISCOURAGING SQUIRRELS & HELPING POLLINATORS P0ST- BERLE
HOW DID BERYL AFFECT OUR POLLINATORS?
Corrupt Regulators, Pecans, Bagged Soil Products, Fluoride
2023 Newsletters
Lazy Gardener & Friends 507
CELEBRATING & IDENTIFYING ROSES & OTHER SURVIVORS
ROSES MAY BE TRYING TO TELL YOU SOMETHING — LISTEN!
Microbes and minerals rare earth elements scandium V-D yttrium
Lazy Gardener & Friends 506
LEAVES IN BAYOUS, EDIBLES, HUMMER TIPS!
‘PLANT IT FORWARD’ TACKLES WEATHERING’ TRAUMAS!
LOOKING FOR EDIBLE FALL GARDEN WINNERS?
Artificial fertilizers microbes and vitamins soil invertebrates CO2 soil translocation
Lazy Gardener & Friends 505
Highways to home plots — heat, drought putting natives in spotlight
WILDFLOWER HIGHWAY PLANTING — OVERCOMING CHALLENGES!
IF YOU HAVEN’T YET, TRY NATIVE PLANTS IN YOUR GARDEN!
Plant viruses, fire ants & fungi, antioxidants and Alzheimer’s, native mulches and fire ants, tomatoes
Lazy Gardener & Friends 504
XEROPHILES PICKED RIGHT PLANTS THIS SUMMER!
Lazy Gardener & Friends 503
DON’T PLANT CHINESE TALLOWS! MORE BLOOMING SURVIVORS
Wilding or regenerative landscaping
Lazy Gardener & Friends 502
TREE LIMBS DROP? WHO KNOWS WHY?
Trees and rain food safety cryptobiosis
Lazy Gardener & Friends 501
GOOD RAINS PREDICTED NEXT WEEK? ELIEVE WHEN SEE — WILDSCAPES COMETH!
“NO DOUBT SUMMER OF 2023 has been a challenge for even the most experienced
gardeners.”
Lazy Gardener & Friends 500
‘One of the worst mistakes you can make as a gardener is to think you’re in charge.’
‘CONSTANT’ IRRIGATION KEY TO FRUIT TREE SURVIVAL THESE DAYS
Trees (part 2b) – the benefits