Text Box: Garden Beginnings Text Box: My goal here is to spur interest in gardening, landscape design, and outdoor living. I hope that you can find something interesting in every issue, and will pass this along to your friends. I promise to never pass your email address to anyone period. Love our Lakes, Water Wisely! Enjoy… bryan Text Box: Early signs are pointing to what could be a banner year for seed companies and garden ware providers. There are a number of reason for this including, increasing produce costs, economic downturn, and reliability of safe and quality produce. Though I do not believe that any of us are going to store a barrel of cash based on our garden savings, this is one of the most popular reasons that I hear from my clients. Second, is the social phenomena know as “nesting”, in which we spend more time at home and tending to a simpler life during an economic slide. Probably the most important reason is the issue of quality and safety. (continued on p. 3) Text Box: Almost every Winter vegetable garden article features nostalgic waxing about pouring through seed catalogs while sitting next to a warm fire. Unfortunately, for those of us in North Texas, by the time we read this, it is time to get after it. Cool season crops including Lettuce, Text Box: Spinach, Broccoli, Onions, Potatoes, Carrots, and others; need to be in the ground early, as cool turns to hot much to fast in most cases. Cloth covers and mini green houses can improve most of these crops, allowing for early planting. It is also time for the most energetic gardeners to start their Text Box: Tomato and Pepper plants indoors from seed. Text Box: Welcome to the NTGN… The Vegetable Garden Issue Text Box: Please visit my friends at the following businesses, let them know I sent you. Please JBS Express Stone 4015 W. University in Mckinney 972 562 7676 Stone, Compost, Mulch in Bulk________ Chambersville Tree Farms chambersvilletreefarms.com 972 837 4223_______________________ McCraw Properties Residential & Commercial Realty 972 569 8840_______________________ Bryan Swenson Landscape Design Staroftexaslandscape.com 214 733 6308

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Clean It Up

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Empty Your Pockets, Spring is Here

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Raised Bed Construction

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         January/February 2009

Volume 2, Issue 1
Text Box: North Texas Gardener’s News Text Box: Is This the Year to Start a Vegetable Garden?

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