New treats in my backyard!

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While watering, weeding and making the rounds in my backyard this evening, I saw a few new things that were most interesting. The first was this little “reject” that I found in the dumpster of a local nursery. It was almost dead and in severe distress. I potted it in the best organic soil mix that you can imagine last year and it has bloomed for the first time this spring:

While watering and inspecting my young pepper plants, there was one of them that was less than a foot tall, yet produced a pepper almost 4 inches long:

I then went over to my old rock garden underneath the bathroom window and was delighted to see that my old passion vine had came back to life after the severe winter that we had and seems to be thriving! Cool!

In that same flower bed, the lilies were really “showing off” after their spring organic fertilization:

Even some of the winter Pansies are doing quite well despite day temps in the lower 90’s. The ones below were planted in the native soil under the shade of my largest tree and were looking a little sad:

On the other hand, these Pansies have been growing in my old wine barrel that contains the richest organic soil mix in the world, IN FULL SUN, and just look at them! They should have died last month, but still look great! I have no explanation for this. Normally Pansies die off in mid April here in Texas because of the heat and these are still thriving. Blows my mind!

The common denominator of these successful plants seems to be well prepared organically rich soil that has rich biological activity.
Ever since I started listening to the organic approach to plant growth and landscaping, I have been experimenting in my backyard with areas of native soil and other areas of native soil that has been amended heavily with organic ingredients. I have noticed that the organic areas have often grown things that should not grow and/or have better production of fruits and flowers.
Plants are SO amazing!
_N2O

• 14 May, 2010
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