Garden Girl

If I had your blog on my blogroll at my Garden Girl site, the links should all be updated at Punk Gardener (please email me if you need to be added or updated or such). If Garden Girl was on your blogroll, please update my link with Punk Gardener at http://www.punkgardener.com

Please have the link point to punkgardener.com & not to this site.

Thanks everyone & let the rain keep on coming to us CenTex gardeners!

long live Garden Girl… er something.

Sooooo… I’ve been made aware that A) There are a lot of Garden Girl domains & some of them are getting pretty big (like the awesome GardenGirlTV) and B) hardly anyone can remember my .name domain designation as it’s just too weird :p

With this in mind, I’ve moved this blog to a new domain & I hope those of you who have been visiting me here will keep on visiting there (or update your bookmarked feeds or email subscriptions to my new pad).

I really do appreciate all you who read & take the time to comment and I don’t want to lose any of you, so I’ll leave this blog up here for a while with this notice on it.

My new blog is already up & ready for action at:

http://www.punkgardener.com

& I’ll do my best to bring the the punk ethic of DIY, and being mad creative while having more fun than the law allows to my garden.

See ya on the other side- GardenGirl/ Punk Gardener

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would you?

*shakes fist at sky*

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Even here

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“The Austin and San Antonio areas join forces to give residents a user-friendly, one-stop commuting information site. The River Cities Rideshare program is designed to help commuters reduce automobile dependency by providing carpool and vanpool matches, biking and pedestrian information and public transportation options.”

http://www.rivercitiesrideshare.com/en-US/

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Let’s talk about T. Boone Pickens, the developer of all the groovy green wind power here in Texas. Let’s talk about his big straw to drink our milkshakes.

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Burpee makes lawn busting kits! Great idea.

http://www.burpee.com/contentarticle.do?itemID=432

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at Fig Tree Cottage. There’s not much going on in this well over 100* spell.
I get out early every morning & water the trees, berry patch & bushes (they seem to be liking the milk treatments & are thriving as much as anything can in this heat.)
I do feel grateful that I don’t live with any neighborhood lawn restriction other than keeping the grass under 3 inches, because it means I can forgo watering. Water is going to become an issue for us in CenTex , I think, since we have a population boom, limited aquifers & a trend toward hotter weather. So I’m all for letting my prairie grasses tough it out & if the St Augustine dies, I’ll plant a less wimpy cover crop where I must, or better yet: xeriscape with rocks & drought tolerant natives.
Other than my weekly venturing forth to the farmers market, I’m staying inside with my worm farm, plotting Fall tomatoes & reading gardening books.

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Pam at the great victory gardners’ resource Red White and Grew

was kind enough to give my blog this award:

So now to pass it on, here are just a few of the Central Texas garden & sustainability blogs that I find uplifting.

Inner City Farmer

Trailer Park Girl

Zanthan Gardens

Gardening at Draco

& of course,  more Austin garden blog links can be found at the mother of all Austin Gardening blogs:

Digging

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Oh & I meant to write about a strange encounter last night in my yard.
Near dusk as I was going out back to collect the recycling & garbage bins to put out for pickup, I came upon a cotton tail bunny near the SE corner of the cottage. She started a bit & scampered off a few feet into my yard, only to freeze out in the open still no more than 4 feet from me. I chided her gently, saying that taking cover really was a better camouflage option than simply freezing after a few short hops.
She merely regarded me.
So, after I collected the trash, I went in & told Mr. Garden Girl about the chance meeting & he went out to see her and she did the exact same thing to him.
He checked for a nest near the house and I did the same thing this morning– nope, no babies.
I wonder what she was up to?

In other critter news: I’m expecting my red wiggles for my vermicomposter in a few days, so look for posts on setting up a worm farm in one’s kitchen soon

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