#homesteddi spugetti

[pineyw00dsshesquatch]

My deep East TX Piney woods garden. I started it really late, so I only have tomatillos trellised on the left of the last pic and the rest is peppers to cope with the heat. The little red one is my first Chile de Arbol I just strung up to dry. Other types I have are jalapeño, serrano, Chile de Arbol, pasilla, and cayenne. My containers are upcycled from thrift stores with spray paint and dollar store sequins.

I made the edging out of wattle fencing using yaupon which ARE a holly, so they work perfectly. That was only my second time making wattle fencing, so it's not amazing, but I still really like it. I see a lot of turorials about wattle fencing online, but none of it really explores what other trees to use besides regular holly and willow. Yaupon is PROLIFIC out here, so it makes for excellent free material. I just mulched the bed with pine needles because we're in the no rain part of summer and they'll block the weeds.

Even though it's late, I want to start sweet potatoes in another bed. It stays hot here so long, I'm gonna roll the dice on em. I have another bed of good forest dirt, but it prolly needs sand or perlite to be loose enough for them. There's a lot of clay in the soil here, it's what keeps these woods clinging on through droughts, but it SUCKS to dig thu.

February was month of the septic tank war and the clay pit that almost sucked in He-squatch like 5 times.

[pineyw00dsshesquatch]

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