High Plains Gardening
The gardening website of the Texas High Plains Region
Garden Notes
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January 10, 2013, Updated March 5, 2013.
Horticultural News of 2012
Horticultural news rarely makes our local papers. One nearly has to stumble across these humusy morsels of information much as one would in search of mushrooms in a woods, tripping over logs, slogging through swampy parts and sometimes going home empty handed. As my Dad told me long ago, you have to look where they are (supposed to be). The American Gardener Magazine has been my starting point for information for over a decade. One theme consistent within their section 'Horticultural News and Research Important to...
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January 2, 2013
Fitting In With Our Climate
We are into another year and as in every year, we never quite know what we'll face. Plenty of sun and wind for sure, perhaps timely and average rainfall amounts. Possibly snow, hail, sudden temperature shifts, hopefully not anything worse. These are normal weather occurrences gardeners deal with nearly each and every year. If you haven't been as successful as you'd like when tackling the average conditions, your garden probably suffered under the more extreme heat and drought we've been under. I can't foretell the future, but most...
January 1, 2013
The Gardening Year 2012
Once again, rain was the topic that most dominated the gardening thought and conversation, and heat, coming in second place. Each year brings challenges, some new along with the old. With nearly twice the rainfall as in 2011, the Texas Panhandle was still far below our average. Luckily, sufficient, inexpensive supplementation of water is still available to help gardens survive during dry spells in Amarillo. Because of this, it was only at the end of the year, that I felt the impact of the drought crisis that affected the United States from the...