Fall planting time for fall vegetable gardening in Texas has been going on for some time, and it is past time (in East Texas at least) for planting out tomatoes, or anything that will take more than about 60 days to mature, or anything that won’t do well in cooler temperatures. That doesn’t mean that your gardening has to end, it just means that it is time to switch gears to cooler weather fall garden plants with crops like kale, collards, or some of the other cabbage related crops, and there is still plenty of time to get in a crop or two of leafy green vegetables of other types as well. In fact, there are a lot of crops that will withstand much of our relatively moderate winter, and even more that will survive if given the protection of a cold frame or greenhouse.

Learn about The Complete Grape Growing System. Does the system work? Learn what you need to know before you buy any grape growing book or other information product. If you plan on producing grapes in your garden, this is a must read. The Complete Grape Growing System What It Is

From the review:

“There are thousands of guides on the market with hundreds of thousands of pages on growing everything from African violets to Venus flytraps, and some of them even cover fruits and vegetables, but The Complete Grape Growing System is the only system with comprehensive information on growing grapes, and grapes only!”

The best place to buy a garden shed, storage shed, carport, or steel garage in Tyler Texas, is not in Tyler Texas!

For that, you need to drive just outside the Tyler city limits on highway 69, cross under I-20 heading toward Lindale, and keep an eye out on the right side of the highway. At 2010 South Main (highway 69) you will find a great selection of the highest quality storage sheds, portable storage buildings, carports, and garages to be found in the state of Texas.

Alternative Canopy offers factory direct pricing on all buildings, guaranteed to be equal to, or better than any in the market when compared apples to apples! Hundreds to choose from.

Call 903.882.9300, or drop by today!

Storage sheds and Garden Sheds

When it comes to home gardening, there are many different types. There is standard vegetable gardening, landscape gardening, organic gardening, and dozens of variations of each.

Which of these home garden subjects is of the most interest to you?

Organic Gardening Making Your Own Pest Products Landscaping Ideas and Plans

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For the right place to buy a storage building for your gardening needs, or any other need in the Tyler, Lindale area, or anywhere else in East Texas call James at:
903.504.3938
If you do much gardening, the fact that you need storage shed space to store your tools, soil amendments, fertilizers, and other things you need to have a productive contract with nature and your landscape can not have escaped your notice.

In East Texas, the constantly shifting weather makes it necessary to store a few things inside from time to time, and if you are like most of us, your garage is already full of household items, or if you are one of the extremely well organized, your auto, and you don’t have a lot of extra space for things like fertilizer and tools.

There is a very simple and inexpensive solution to this dilemma: Buy a storage shed! You can have an attractive and well built storage building delivered to your back yard, add a potting bench, a tool rack, and segment off space for storing your bags of gardening products, and you will have a place to store those products, and even a place to work on your garden when the weather won’t allow you to be in your garden!

For lots of other great ideas on how to choose and use the right storage building for your needs,  go to: How to Choose Use and Maintain Your Storage Building. For more information on choosing and using a storage shed for lawn and garden equipment, tool storage, and even pesticide storage try these handy articles:

• Garden and Lawn Equipment Storage
• Storing Hand Tools
• Storage Buildings For Storing Pesticides and Chemicals

Updated on 9/12/2010

The look of home lawns and gardens may be changing. There are at least 2 trends, and 2 problems that may reshape, and redefine the way we view and use our backyards.

More Garden, Less Lawn?

“Micro farming” is growing in popularity. This small farm, or large garden trend has reached proportions large enough that it has now sprouted it’s own industry of information products, tools, and supplies. Many back lawns are giving way to vegetable gardens, and traditional landscape beds becoming herb gardens. Such gardens, may offer answers to some of the more difficult problems facing the homeowner. Traditional lawns require a lot of resources like extra water, fertilizer and pesticides to keep them looking the way we have become accustomed to seeing them.

Backyard habitats are also growing in popularity and are replacing the traditional Bermuda grass and Saint Augustine lawns in greater numbers than you might imagine. The percentage is small, but growing.

In the past year or so our area has seen sufficient rainfall to avoid serious water restrictions, but this probably won’t last forever. Projections  for the future appear to show that water restrictions for some non essential elements of life could one day be a reality.

Certain fertilizers, particularly phosphorus are always under scrutiny. Fertilizer restrictions for a variety of reasons including water quality have been creeping slowly toward us, and will one day arrive. They have not happened yet simply because legislators and the EPA simply haven’t gotten around to it yet

Good landscape planning using native trees, shrubs and ground covers can produce efficient water usage and fertility usage results. Perhaps backyard wildlife habitats or large gardens will become the backyards of the future as we head toward days of more water and fertilizer use restrictions for lawns.

Backyard habitats can provide education, interest, insect protection, and a lot of other great benefits to your personal environment. You can get a lot of great information about backyard wildlife habitats at:
BURNS ENVIRONMENTAL

Basic Company Information:

email: james@burnsenvironmental.com

Basic Services:

• Habitat Management

• Aquatic Vegetation Management

• Forest Vegetation Management

• Right of Way Vegetation Management

• Industrial Vegetation Management

• Backyard Habitats

• Tree Care

• Insect and predator control

Probably the most famous garden in Tyler is the Tyler Rose Garden, the worlds largest municipal rose garden, but there are many private gardens in the Tyler area. Some of them are regular attractions during the annual “Azalea Trails Event.” If you come to Tyler Texas, you will automatically be struck by the natural beauty of East Texas with it’s tall pines, and deciduous forest full of native dogwoods. In such a place, filled with such natural beauty it takes quite a garden to be impressive, but many of our local gardeners manage to pull it off, offering us an incredible blizzard of springtime colors!

In Texas, when you think of gardens, you think of East Texas!

The entire area is like a garden compared to most of the rest of the state. Lush forests, lots of lakes and streams, rolling hills, pastoral settings, farms and ranch land, make the East Texas area an almost idyllic spot.

Now, how do you top something like that? Well, We have the Tyler Municipal Rose Garden, which is the largest municipal rose garden in the world! Not only that, but there is the annual Azalea Trails event, which draws thousands from across the country, who can walk or drive down miles of streets of azalea clad homes and gardens!

We have dozens of rose nurseries, and other nurseries with every type of plant imaginable, and a thriving Master Gardener program.

Backyard Wildlife Habitat Information and Services