Useful Guides and Links

Please see the below list of resources and links to help you with your gardening!

Native Plants

• For information on Smartscape plants for North Texas – www.txsmartscape.com

Watering and Irrigation

• Take Care of Texas guide to rain barrels – rain-barrels
• Automating Rain Barrels – automating-a-rain-barrel-irrigation-system
• How to make a rain barrel (video) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIl0trRp-PM
• Water Conservation in Vegetable Gardens – water-conservation-in-the-vegetable-garden
• OLLA pots – how-to-use-an-olla
• Lawn watering calculator – lawn-watering-online-calculator
• Irrigating with soaker hoses – irrigating-the-vegetable-garden

Vegetable Gardens

• Organic Planting Guide – view the guide here.
• When can I plant it planting guide – view the planting guide here.
• Great vegetables to grow if you love to cook – 62-vegetables-you-can-grow-in-containers
• Rules for container plants – container-gardening
• Tips on small space gardening – general-principles-for-patios
• Growing tomatoes – tomatoes_-a-complete-planting-guide
• Pro’s tips for wrangling tomatoes – a-pros-tips-for-wrangling-tomatoes
• The FarmGirls tomato transplanting tips – farmgirls-tomato-transplanting-tips

Soil Amendment

• How to improve clay soil – improving-clay-soil
• Get your soil tested by Texas A&M Agrilife Extention – http://soiltesting.tamu.edu/
• Basics of soil amendment for vegetable gardens – basics-of-improving-soils-for-vegetable-gardening
• Take Care of Texas guide to composting – take-care-of-texas-composting

Trees

• Recommended trees for North Texas – recommended-trees-for-north-texas
• Pruning Crepe Myrtles – crepe-myrtle-pruning-neil-sperry-article
• Dirt Doctor’s Tree Care – dirt-doctors-tree-care
• Mulching Trees – mulching-your-trees
• Pruning – tamu-pruning-your-tree
• Making sure you plant properly – tamu-plant-your-tree-properly