Garden Event: Sunshine Gardens plant sale

Tomorrow is the Sunshine Gardens benefit plant sale. It's a great place to find tomato, pepper and other vegetable plants for really good prices. I definitely recommend getting there early if you go... it starts at 9! Check out KVUE.com's event calendar for more gardening events.

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Categories: around Austin |

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What is this bug?

My son found one of these as he was pulling chard in the garden this past weekend. I didn't think much of it at the time -- except to point out its color and explain that it was an insect -- until my husband spotted another one on the olive tree we were pruning.

I did a little Internet searching, and "Assassin bug" kept popping up as an option, but I don't think it is.

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Categories: butterflies, bugs and spiders |

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Family gardening connections

I decided I wanted to pot up the tomatoes into slightly larger containers this weekend. The seedlings were as tall as the containers, and we're now about a month away from the last average freeze in Austin (March 15).

Looking back, I could have definitely waited. The roots weren't as well developed as I expected. But I tend to either act too late or too early when it comes to gardening, so I'm taking my "leap before I look" gardening habit in stride.

The transplanting became a family activity... with my husband making the pots with our pot-maker and newspaper, me putting the seedlings in their respective containers, and my son scooping dirt. He actually did a little more "playing" than gardening, but that's what it's all about right? Later, he helped me water the plants before we took them back inside to their respective window and lights.

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Categories: vegetables and fruits |

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Tiny tomatoes transplanted

This morning, in the few minutes I had before leaving for work, I checked on the little seedlings still going strong on a table in my office.
They look great... very strong. I've even spotted tiny sprouts in the seed sprouting soil that had been barren for so long.
It was time to thin out the tomatoes. Their second set of leaves have been growing for more than a week.
Carefully, I chose the weaker of the two plants and pulled it out of the pods one by one... but instead of tossing them, I transplanted them into the empty pods that had not sprouted anything.
I'm anxious to see if they take.

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