We’re just about done with planting for the summer season at the Fonda garden.   Which is a good thing, cuz there’s a six-foot thorny weed in the back corner, assembling an army to take over operations.  I think the big one threw a rock at me last week. Early this month, Fonda inspiration and author [...]

Buffalo grass is weedy.  The time spent mowing, fertilizing, watering, and bugging in other turf grasses is compounded and concentrated into just one simple task for Buffalo:  weeding.  This is especially true for highly disturbed sites, and which sites aren’t? But after a tip from Jon Ahrens, we tried out the ‘Density’ variety from a [...]

Last Friday, part of the BG crew celebrated National Bike to Work Day by strapping an electric weedeater, propane blower, weed bags, and hand tools to our backs and riding to perform our weekly landscaping duties at Austin City Hall.  With some bikes borrowed from the best bike team in town, we enjoyed free breakfast [...]

Like the ones that have come before it, this season will change everything forever.  The dust will eventually settle under the humidity of summer, and we’ll be a little older, a little wiser, and a little closer to the place we really want to be.  Some premature reflection half way through: We’ve been testing a new [...]

April was a maintenance month in the garden.  The kitchen harvested all our beautiful sweet carrots at the end of the month; I didn’t realize how attached I was to the carrots until we showed up during our last visit of the month and they were all gone.   Broccoli and radishes have all been harvested [...]

We have about one cubic yard of leftover cedar mulch, fresh from Natty G last week.  Free to the first one who wants it, comes to our lot in East Austin between 7am and 8am on a weekday, and takes it away.   We’ll help load it, but you’ll need a truck, or a car that [...]