Austin Texas Gardening

Here in Zone 8B, I'm doing a little zone pushing, which means I need to prepare my tropical plants for winter with heat lamps in my garage, by killing fire ants, termites, and other pests in their containers.

4oz of orange oil plus one gallon of water should take out most fire ant nests without poisoning your garden, grass, or plants in containers.

Good luck this fall with all your home garden projects!

How To Get Rid of Fire Ants Organically with Orange Oil 4oz of orange oil plus one gallon of water should take out most fire ant nests without poisoning your garden, grass, or plants in containers.Here in Zone 8B,...

This fall I'm adding four celeste fig trees to my backyard orchard. Its rare to find fruiting saplings so large, so I thought I'd share this find from Pflugerville's Home Depot, where I got these trees for $30 a piece.

Cheap Large Celeste Fig Trees - Adding Trees to the Backyard Orchard this Fall This fall I'm adding four celeste fig trees to my backyard orchard. Its rare to find fruiting saplings so large, so I thought I'd share this find from Pfluge...

This video is all about how to propagate purslane, if I could do it in the Texas drought and heatwave, you can do it too! The whole process is very simple, takes only a month or two, and adds a ton of ornamental value to your backyard garden.

I hope this video is entertaining, educational, and inspiring!

How To Propagate Purslane This video is all about how to propagate purslane, if I could do it in the Texas drought and heatwave, you can do it too! The whole process is very simple, t...

Here in Austin Texas, I am working with some really dense clay soil, because of this, I've decided to grow fruits and veggies in a large raised bed, and build a french drain for my peach trees.

My raised bed is 60 square feet (20'x3') and about 2 feet high, I'm growing peppers, cucumbers, strawberries, tomatoes, eggplant, watermelon, and a few other seedling starter plants. Near my raised bed, I'm growing ornamentals and olive trees in containers to attract pollinators for my raised bed vegetables and backyard peach orchard. I'm also doing a little zone pushing by growing pineapples and an avocado sapling in containers.

I hope this garden tour is entertaining, educational, and inspiring. Good luck with all your gardening projects this summer!

Summer Garden Tour August 2022 - Growing Eggplant, Watermelon, and Fall Gardening Prep in Austin, TX Greetings, I hope you enjoy this August garden tour of my backyard here in Austin Texas' Zone 8B, we are finally getting some relief to this intense summer T...

I grew cucumbers in my backyard and pickled them! We dont have good soil, but the cucumbers didnt seem to mind the heat in their raised bed. They do require a lot of water though, so if you try to grow them, you'll need to water at least twice a week. Personally, I water every other day.

I pickled these cucumbers with jalapeños. The pickles were crunchy, and had some heat without being too hot, they were as good as any deli pickle I've ever had! If you have any questions, feel free to ask in the comments!

Making Refrigerator Pickles - Growing Cucumbers From Seed in Austin Texas Greetings and welcome to my channel, in this video I will be explaining how I grew cucumbers from seed, and pickled them using this recipe - https://www.simp...

As the summer heat and drought continues, there are still all sorts of things that grow in our intense summer Texas heat. Recently I’ve harvested some cucumbers and jalapeños for pickling!

Here in the Austin suburbs, I'm working with some really dense clay soil, because of this, I've decided to grow fruits and veggies in a large raised bed, and build a french drain for my peach trees.

My raised bed is 60 square feet (20'x3') and about 2 feet high, I'm growing jalapeños, cucumbers, and a few other seedling starter plants. Near my raised bed, I'm growing ornamentals and olive trees in containers to attract pollinators for my raised bed vegetables and backyard peach orchard. I'm also doing a little zone pushing by growing pineapples and an avocado sapling in containers.

I hope this update on my raised bed and fruit trees is entertaining, informative, and inspiring! Good luck with all your gardening projects this summer!

Texas Heatwave Harvest - Summer Garden Tour July 2022 - Growing Cucumbers, Jalapeños, and Much More! Greetings, I hope you enjoy this July garden tour of my backyard here in Austin Texas' Zone 8B, even though the temperature is soaring into the triple digits...

Even though the temperature is soaring into the triple digits, there are still all sorts of things that grow in our intense summer Texas heat. Here in the Austin suburbs, I'm working with some really dense clay soil, because of this, I've decided to grow fruits and veggies in a large raised bed, and build a french drain for my peach trees.

My raised bed is 60 square feet (20'x3') and about 2 feet high, I'm growing peppers, cucumbers, strawberries, tomatoes, and a few other seedling starter plants. Near my raised bed, I'm growing ornamentals and olive trees in containers to attract pollinators for my raised bed vegetables and backyard peach orchard. I'm also doing a little zone pushing by growing pineapples and an avocado sapling in containers.

I hope this update on my raised bed and fruit trees is entertaining, informative, and inspiring! Good luck with all your gardening projects this summer!

Gardening in Texas Heat - Summer Garden Tour June 2022 - Growing Tomatoes, Jalapeños, and Much More! Greetings, I hope you enjoy this June garden tour of my backyard here in Austin Texas' Zone 8B, even though the temperature is soaring into the triple digits...

I've built a french drain to get rid of mosquitoes and standing water in my backyard, this will also help to remedy root rot issues for my backyard orchard's peach trees.

Austin's new suburbs have dense clay soil brought in for building home foundations. In most cases developers plan for drainage, but in my case, there are some ongoing drainage issues.

Improving the clay soil was an option here, but given the size of my backyard, I figured a french drain would be a better solution. Let me know if you have any questions about how I did this.

How I Built a French Drain to Improve Drainage on Clay Soil Greetings and welcome to my channel, this video explains 6 steps I came up with for building a french drain to improve drainage over suburban clay soil.Here ...

Here in Austin Texas, I am working with some really dense clay soil, because of this, I've decided to grow fruits and veggies in a large raised bed and containers.

I built a raised bed out of yellow pine 2x12s, it is 60 square feet (20'x3') and about 2 feet high, I'm growing tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, strawberries, and a few other seedling starter plants. Near my raised bed, I'm growing tropical plants and all sorts of ornamentals in containers to attract pollinators for my raised bed vegetables and backyard peach orchard. I've also recently added some olive trees in whiskey barrels.

I hope this garden tour is entertaining, educational, and inspiring, if you have any questions feel free to comment or DM me!

If theres any part of the video you want to skip to, here are some useful video chapter timestamps -

0:00 Introduction
1:45 Raised Bed - Herbs, Cucumbers, Tomatoes, Peppers, and More
8:53 Plants in Containers - Zone Pushing with Tropicals, Ornamentals, Olive Trees in Whiskey Barrels, and More
15:49 The Peach Orchard - Drainage issues
23:02 Closing Thoughts

May 2022 Garden Tour - Austin Texas Gardening in Zone 8 Greetings, I hope you enjoy this May garden tour of my backyard here in Austin Texas' Zone 8B! I hope this update on my raised bed and fruit trees is enterta...

This video is about zone pushing, I've been growing pineapple for a year now in Austin, Texas - Zone 8B, its more work than it would be in Zone 10, but it's been a fun experiment. I managed to get these plants through the winter, and I'm expecting them to fruit this fall, stay tuned for a complete growing guide when they fruit.

Regrowing Pineapple Crowns in Texas Zone 8B - One Year Update This video is about zone pushing, I've been growing pineapple for a year now in Austin, Texas - Zone 8B, its more work than it would be in Zone 10, but it's ...

This weekend I've harvested some mammoth tomatoes from my raised bed. I've had a really great experience growing tomatoes in Austin Texas, and in this video I'm discussing some issues I've faced. Tomatoes do great in central Texas, but they'll do great anywhere that has a daytime temperature is between 50-90 degrees, and a nighttime temperature is between 40-75 degrees. I highly recommend you try them out!

April 2022 Harvest - Growing Tomatoes in Central Texas Zone 8B This weekend I'm harvesting some mammoth tomatoes from my raised bed. I'll also be discussing some of my experience growing tomatoes in Austin Texas, and iss...