H Squared

As, I’ve mentioned before in this space, one of the benefits of gardening in Austin is the ability to have something in ground all year round. In August, we put in a variety of heat resistant tomato, and we’ve now got many fruits on the vine. With temperatures still in the 80s during [...]

I seem to be posting a fair amount of content relating to our garden. My apologies if that is to the neglect of more weightier topics.
We recently had the first harvest of tomatoes from our garden. This year, I’ve got to varieties in the ground, Early Girl Bush, and Brandywine. The Early [...]

A couple of nights ago, a decent-sized storm blew through Austin. It dropped a lot of rain, but didn’t seem to cause to much damage. Until we went out to the garden last evening. The supports for the 7-foot trellis which holds our bean broke and the entire trellis blew over onto [...]

One of the benefits of living in the Student Apartments here at UT is the community garden. It was closed for maintenance over the winter, but reopened in mid-March to much excitement from the residents, myself included. The plots aren’t big, just 16′x8′, but big enough to give me something to do when [...]