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Charamon Garden Report:Summer 2009
If you read this blog or live in this region you know: gardening in West Texas has some major challenges! Our major challenge this summer has been keeping things watered. We normally don’t get… more →
In the Charamon Garden
Charamon Garden Report:Summer 2009
dwhitsett wrote 4 months ago: If you read this blog or live in this region you know: gardening in West Texas has some major challe … more →
Bermuda Wars Resume
dwhitsett wrote 6 months ago: Ah yes, ’tis the season of Bermuda…not that lovely Atlantic archipelago but the cursed a … more →
Freezing, Frying and Flying
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dwhitsett wrote 7 months ago: See Photos at bottom We can talk about the weather with anyone in nearly anyplace around the world ( … more →
The Asparagus Lesson
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dwhitsett wrote 8 months ago: Most of what one needs to know to grow the luscious, luxurious spears of Asparagus in Texas can be f … more →
Doctoring the Orchard
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dwhitsett wrote 10 months ago: Holes ready for charcoal and mychorrizae Auger and cordless drill Mychorrizae tablet Well-seasoned c … more →
“The Earth is Tired”
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dwhitsett wrote 10 months ago: “Tè a fatige,” said 70 percent of Haitian farmers in a recent survey when asked about th … more →
Winter Woes
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dwhitsett wrote 11 months ago: I am not a lover of Winter. Outside the Charamon Garden, it is forty shades of brown. It is not a pr … more →
Garden Report for December 2008
dwhitsett wrote 11 months ago: Winter has arrived in West Texas. So far, it is a dry one with no rain for more than 50 days! I am t … more →
An Admirable Enemy
dwhitsett wrote 1 year ago: Weeds are a part of gardening that cannot be avoided (unless you garden hydroponically). In the Cha … more →
Challenges
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dwhitsett wrote 1 year ago: Charamon Garden is suffering in the heat! We are having very high temperatures the last few weeks an … more →
Latest Dirt
dwhitsett wrote 1 year ago: Recent activities in the Charamon Garden: Planting onion sets Planting hard squash seeds (Blue Hubba … more →
Trickle, trickle, splash, splash
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dwhitsett wrote 1 year ago: Here in the semi-desert of West Texas, we have to depend on irrigation. The Charamon Garden is wate … more →
Freeze Predicted!
dwhitsett wrote 1 year ago: Dad told me so. He said, “If you hear thunder in February, there’ll be a freeze in April … more →
Well, well, well…what a bore!
dwhitsett wrote 1 year ago: The Charamon garden is watered from a well (or “bore”) we had drilled about nine years ago. I think … more →
Rain, come again another day!
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dwhitsett wrote 1 year ago: Rain, rain, go away, Come again another day. Rain, rain, go away. Come again some other day. Little … more →
