Bulletin Board
- The CMG Annual Spring Picnic is Saturday, April 12th. Please RSVP HERE by April 11th.
- Register for our next Beginning Vegetable Garden Class HERE. The class will run on Saturdays June 5 - July 7.
- Our Annual Fall Auction was a success once again in 2024. Click HERE to see the list of the very generous businesses that gave donations .
Fertilizer Timing for Turf Grass
As the days get longer, the temperature rises, and there’s less football on TV, our thoughts turn to gardening, working in the yard, and green lawns. One of the top questions on people’s minds is always when to add nitrogen fertilizer to turf grass. The answer is, unless you are top dressing with compost, wait. This is not the answer most people expect or want to hear. Following are a few reasons why waiting is important, type of fertilizer, how much, and when to fertilize turf grass.
Tips from the Garden
“One of the healthiest ways to gamble is with a spade and a packet of seeds.” ~Dan Bennett~
March is a time for planting in south central Texas. The ground is warming up, as we welcome Spring on Thursday, March 20. There are so many colorful flowers waiting for a chance to grow, such as aster, zinnia, coreopsis, echinacea, dahlia, cosmos, dianthus, and begonia. Here’s a large list of summer flowers including favorite nectar flowers for bees and butterflies. Click HERE for more Tips.
Focus on a Native
The Pecan tree, Carya illinoinensis, is a towering (up to 160’ tall) shade tree of the hickory family of trees. This is the state tree of Texas and it has a tall, straight trunk and sturdy branches that form a symmetrical, oval crown. Pecan trees are native in wooded bottomlands and along stream banks in a large swath of eastern states from Texas and Alabama, north to southern Ohio, Indiana, Iowa and Kansas. They have been cultivated in most of the southeastern United States from Florida to Maryland. Click HERE for more information.
Creepy Crawlers
Crane Flies
It’s a bit chilly and raining as I write this, but I know that soon the weather will warm up and the “Texas groundhogs” will be out in force. “Texas groundhogs” is the term I use for crane flies as these typically are the first insects we begin to see
Click HERE to learn more about crane flies.
Veggies, Q&As, and Native Plants
Happenings and Harvests in the Veggie Garden
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Native Plant Gallery
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