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  • About
    • About Us
    • Apply Here
    • Explore our Eight Acres
    • Hours and Location
    • Notice About Weather Closures
    • John Dromgoole
  • Organic Gardening HQ
    • Info Archive
    • How To
      • 7-Step Guide to Organic Gardening
      • Soil Preparation for Organic Gardens
      • Tree Planting & Care
      • How to Compost
      • How to Water
      • How to Water Trees
      • Freeze Prep
      • Maintenance After the Freeze
    • Welcome to Austin!
    • Plants for Anything
      • Bee Plants
      • Butterfly Plants
      • Container Gardening
      • Deer Resistant Plants
      • Hummingbird Plants
      • Privacy Plants
      • Roses in Central Texas
      • Succulents for the Landscape
    • TNG Veggie Calendar
    • Herbs
    • Pest Control
    • Fruits, Pecans, & Berries
      • Apples
      • Citrus
      • Figs
      • Grapes
      • Peaches
      • Pears
      • Pecans
      • Persimmons
      • Plums
      • Pomegranates
    • Organic Lawn Care
      • Lawn Care Guide
      • Corn Gluten
      • Take All Root Rot
      • Brown Patch Fungus
    • Weed Control
    • Pollinators
      • Bee Plants
      • Butterfly Plants
      • Hummingbird Plants
      • Raising Monarch Butterflies
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Fruits & Vegetables

Apples
Artichokes
Asparagus
Blueberries
Brambles
Citrus
Figs
Garlic and Shallots
Grapes
Jujube
Olives
Onions
Peaches
Pears
Pecans
Persimmon
Plums
Pomegranate
Potatoes
Rhubarb
Strawberries
Sweet Potatoes
Tomatoes (and other summer vegetables)

Wildlife Gardening

Bees
Birds
Butterflies
Hummingbird nectar recipe
Purple martin facts
Screech owl houses
‘Supernatural’ plant list (compilation of bee, butterfly, bird, xeric and deer resistant)

Fruit, Herb, and Vegetable Gardening

Chilling hours TX map
Cold hardiness of vegetables
Cover crops
Fruit tree reference chart
Fruits, pecans & berries
Garden math
Herbs for Central Texas
Soil temperatures for vegetable seed germination
Square foot gardening guide
Tomatoes FAQ
Tomatoes in a well
Vegetable, flower, and herb gardening
Vegetable plant families
Vegetable planting guide

Deer

Deer resistant plants
Deer – Tips and Techniques
Don’t feed the deer

Compost, Compost Tea, & Vermicompost

(How to) Compost
Compost tea (Info and how to make)
Vermiculture and earthworms

Pests, Diseases, & Pest Control

Aphids
Beneficial insects
Fire Blight
Citrus neonic flyer
Fungal diseases of turfgrass
Leaf Cutter ant solutions
Organic pest & disease control
Plum curculio

Weed Control

Corn Gluten
Herbicide Recipe
Weed Control

Specific Plants

Bearded Iris
Crinum lilies
Epiphytic orchids
Roses
Texas Madrone
Tillandsia care (Air Plants)

Water

(How to) Water
Water testing facilities
Watering guidelines for trees (Don Gardner)

Organic Advice

Organic gardening – 7 step guide
Organic lawn care guide
Why organic is better

Plant Lists

2011 Plant survivors list
Privacy screen plant list
Xeric plant list

The Holidays

(Care of) Living Christmas Trees
Succulent wreath care

Native Plants

Native wildflowers and grasses
Thunder Turf and native grasses

Recipes

John’s original recipe
Herbicide recipe
Hummingbird nectar recipe

Trees

Tree planting & care
Watering guidelines for trees (Don Gardner)

Lawn Care

Corn gluten
Organic lawn care guide
Take All Root Rot / Brown Patch Fungus

Miscellaneous

Container gardening
How to design your own landscape
Edible Flowers & Floral Planting Guide
Soil testing facilities

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