CENTRAL TEXAS DIRT • WORKS ANYWHERE
Grow My Own
Damn Food™
Hard lessons from Texas dirt that actually work no matter where you live.
Hard lessons from Texas dirt that actually work no matter where you live.
Most gardening advice comes from places where the weather cooperates. We don’t have that luxury. Clay that sets like concrete, summers that hit 107°, and rain that arrives on its own schedule. When something works here, it tends to work in milder places too.
The Central Texas Planting Calendar + Quick-Start Guide — real frost-date timing for this dirt, not a generic zone map that could mean Ohio.
Felix is the face of this operation because he’s clever, tough, and doesn’t wait for perfect conditions. He wears the old straw hat and overalls because the work actually gets done in those. (See the new hero banner for the latest visual.)
He pops up around here to remind you that growing food is practical, a little dirty, and you’re allowed to be blunt about it.
Central Texas clay will eat your shovel and your soul. Three tillers later, we figured out the slow, stubborn way that actually works.
Read the damn thing →While everything else fried, these tough bastards kept producing. Most of them don’t care what your summers look like.
Read the damn thing →Aphids, hornworms, squash bugs. They don’t ask permission. Here’s what actually moves the needle.
Read the damn thing →105° with humidity will cook a broiler if you’re not paying attention. The tricks that kept ours alive work in your heat too.
Read the damn thing →There’s good eating growing wild if you know what you’re looking at. We learned the hard way which ones are friends.
Read the damn thing →It’s not about being a hermit on a mountain. It’s about having one less thing the world can hold over your head.
Read the damn thing →Notes on what’s working this season, what to ignore, and the mistakes we already made so you don’t have to repeat them.
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