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Designer Russell Womack gives an old garden a new look with native drought tough plants.

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Fall Into Perennials

Recent Episodes

Adventures with Sharon Lovejoy & San Antonio Artists

Let’s take the kids (and us) on an adventure outdoors! Author and illustrator Sharon Lovejoy warms our hearts with time-honored fun for all ages to create wonder and respect for the world around us. In San Antonio, Maria and David Guerrero put a new spin on an old garden with artistic patterns and revived cast-offs. | watch episode →

Plant Pathogen Primer

What’s a pathogen and how does it affect your plants? Get the answer with Viticulture Program Specialist Brianna Crowley from Texas A&M AgriLife Extension—Fredericksburg. In Brenham, A&M professor and Extension Horticulturist Bill Welch and wife Lucille restored architecture and pastureland where conservation unites the past and future. Daphne answers viewer questions from across Texas and | watch episode →

January To Do List

Plant: ornamental & wildlife

Annual transplants: pansies, violas, calendula (wildlife plant), snapdragon, stock, larkspur, ornamental kale & cabbage, bluebonnet transplants, poppies. Transplants are preferred over seeds at this point.
Evergreen perennials
Trees, shrubs, roses
Evergreen groundcovers like monkey grass, liriope, creeping germander, frogfruit

Plant: herbs

Calendula, chervil, cilantro, chives, dill, parsley, feverfew, oregano, sorrel, thyme, garlic chives
Protect cilantro and chives in below freezing weather

Plant: food crops

Artichokes, asparagus, onions, greens, lettuce, spinach, radish, carrots, beets, bok choy, collards, kale, peas, turnips, leeks, broccoli
Prep potatoes to plant in February. Get now to cut and dry for a few weeks
Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Vegetable Planting Guides (Central Texas)

Plant: fruit

Apples, peaches, pecans, pears, pomegranates, persimmons, figs, almonds, grapes, strawberries, raspberries, blackberries

Prune

Okay to prune freeze-damaged perennials. If possible, leave as long as possible for wildlife shelter and food on seed-bearers
Prune grapes, fruit trees, blackberries
Cut asters and chrysanthemums to rosettes
Late month: prune woody salvias as much as ⅔ to encourage new growth
Trees, including red oaks and live oaks
Prune rosemary and oregano
Avoid pruning other evergreen shrubs

Divide/Move

Dormant perennials, roses, shrubs and trees. This is the best time to move plants!

Prep

Add compost to vegetable gardens along with organic fertilizer in prep for another round of winter vegetables
Soil test

Lawn

If must mow, keep high to shade out germinating weeds
It’s really not a good idea to overseed with rye unless you have new, muddy construction and a dog!

Other tasks

Spray trees
Keep floating row cover available; avoid covering plants with plastic
Spray fruit trees with dormant oil to control overwintering scale, plum curculio and other pests.

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