Found this interesting list for common Texas weeds. Didn't know Henbit leaves were edible. Anyone here ever try them?
https://nativebackyards.com/te...

Yup, I've got all of them here.

So do I. And more besides

needrain said: Found this interesting list for common Texas weeds. Didn't know Henbit leaves were edible. Anyone here ever try them?
https://nativebackyards.com/te...

That's interesting, Donald. I need to go lookup what it's good for...and the tea.

Just above is "Cleavers" which they say to pull. Not so fast. It can be used to make a tincture for drawing fluids off and is good for several other ailments. Here's one link, but a Google search for "cleavers tincture" will bring up lots of hits.
https://www.verywellhealth.com...

Honestly, I've seen weeds over in the jail garden that I think came here on a meteorite or something!

I'm very curious to know who went around eating weeds to find out what's edible and non-edible.

American Indians, they taught the Europeans, and their dna contains the missing link Darwin would loove to meet. Hey Anne, Valentines chocolate work to hold you over til Easter? The last rain we had took out the rest of the oak leaves, the elms are turning green. I don't believe we will have Spring at all this year, sigh. Only 10 weeds, wow, must be nice. Since when did bermuda grass classify as weed? Unwanted I understand, weed?
I am so tired, battered and bruised and have donated numerous amounts of blood to the soil from my cuts today, that I am going to wave and tilt out of here.

spurge is my most vicious enemy. the rest are not so bad. My elm tree is blooming, bees are bringing in yellow pollen but my white hive was so light I opened this evening just as the sun set and put a big homemade fondant patty on top, pissed all the bees off, must be 200 stingers in my gloves but none got thru

Gypsi said: spurge is my most vicious enemy. the rest are not so bad. My elm tree is blooming, bees are bringing in yellow pollen but my white hive was so light I opened this evening just as the sun set and put a big homemade fondant patty on top, pissed all the bees off, must be 200 stingers in my gloves but none got thru

200 stingers?!!! Wow, that's 200 dead honey bees....

Anne, Kat... Years ago there was an oyster bar on the south side of Montgomery, AL..."The Capitol Oyster Bar". It's moved to the north side now, down on the Alabama River. Anyhow, their menu was a drawing of a seashore with a man in a loincloth holding a spear in one hand and looking down at an oyster in the other. The by-line below the drawing read..." 'twas a brave man that first ate an oyster." When your belly's growling you'll try different things....sometimes *really* diffreent!!!

Intheswamp said: 200 stingers?!!! Wow, that's 200 dead honey bees....

Yes. I forgot to feed the bees at noon when it was sunny because I knew I'd have followers chasing me around the yard as I dug and planted. Sunset is NOT the time to open a hive, only worse time is NIGHT. If I had not fed them, as light as they are, I'd have lost those 200 in the morning and maybe more. They got robbed last fall by other bees and didn't have enough honey stores this winter.

kittriana said: Hey Anne, Valentines chocolate work to hold you over til Easter?

Depends on how much Valentine candy I receive or manage to buy on sale. I still have a handful of cherry cordial kisses from Christmas as well an unopened box of the big chocolate cordial cherries. It's the Easter candy I need the most of to tide me over til Halloween.

Idk, but I'm getting mad again. I had five Desert Ironweed tree seeds and planted them days ago. A mouse chewed up three of them. I have so much on my plate, I haven't been very responsible for my greenhouse. I have some covers, I'll make sure the mice don't finish off the last two. (Which are germinating by the way) Filthy vermin! I'll set up my traps tonight. I don't have any circus peanut candy so I'll have to find another bait. Bird seed seems to be one of the best, considering it's seeds the mice want.

Weather: it's overcast and humid. Miserable looking day but it's nice temperature wise.

I gotta vent some more: I wanted to go to the pasture to dig up some free top soil but I needed my shovel. Opened storage building and there was my shovel way in the back corner...WHERE THE WASPS WERE. Time to fetch the wasp spray.
On the way to the house I passed by the four cabbages where I noticed a pound of wet poop and holes in the last plain green cabbage. So when I got the Raid, I got Captain Jack's bug dust. Raised the wasps, (there's probably no telling how many dead bodies are down in my pots) Jacked the cabbages, dug up dirt in the pasture.

Since I was so out of it yesterday, I decided to rest today. Only played in the garden for a little bit. Those leaves are being removed, they are blowing everywhere, and those water oak leaves seem to never disintegrate - thats ok, I have a log to burn, so they are going to help. Got the platform for the big pots laid, swept out the floor of the raised beds and pulled some weeds. Then rested. Put my phone and puter on the fibre optic account and it is like moving from times of neanderthal to The Jetsons, in one second. Poor old att line, they should have upgraded their lines or laid new fibre optics. I am sure they will find a way to recoup their losses. It was a pretty day, not sunwise, but warmth, and I will take the warmth. Kids are going camping tomorro for the weekend. I will be watching the dogs and house, it is going to be really really quiet around here.

kittriana said: it is like moving from times of neanderthal to The Jetsons, in one second. Poor old att line, they should have upgraded their lines or laid new fibre optics.

At least they haven't invented a flying car that folds up into a briefcase yet.
I'd prefer remaining with the Flintstones, anyway. With the way technology, AI and robots are going, Earth will probably start looking like Cybertron.
I heard through the grapevine that AT&T no longer supports landlines. They will keep ones you already have working (maybe) but someone wanting a new one put in, they don't want to mess with it. Let AT&T move to Cybertron, we'd do better with two cans and a string than their service anyway.

Rest is really important. You've got me by a few years but I'm finding I need more and more rest....or maybe I'm just getting lazy!!!! We went to a birthday dinner for our middle granddaughter last night. We got home and I was basically ready to go to bed....and prime time tv hadn't got anywhere close to changing to the news.

You're correct, those water oak leaves just don't seem to decompose. We've been gathering the white and red oak leaves around the yard for here and the jail garden and I've told Gena to avoid the water oaks. That glossy, flat leaf just seems to mat up pretty bad. But, you know something?...they go "somewhere" cause later on in the summer there's not near as many as there was...not like you're walking through snow or anything like it is soon after they fall. Interesting. Meh, I've got a couple of rows that could use some more leaves and the jail garden needs whatever it can get so we might run an experiment on them (again).

Congrats on the fiber optic connection!!! I can only dream about that. We're at the slowest (and only) DSL speed Centurystink/Dimspeed offers us. My gardening buddy has a cable modem and when I go there it's like my phone is turbocharged!!! Good for you!!! The Jetsons....Kat, somehow I can see you zooming around in one of those personal spaceships with the bubble top!!!!

Most all the new onions are clearly actively growing after a week seeing temps in the 80sF and some overnight lows staying in the 50sF range. That warm spell looks to be over and next week and beyond is supposed to have freezing overnight and much cooler daytime temps. Rain maybe, including a chance of ice Wednesday. Could use the rain, could do without ice. However, it shouldn't stick around long if the day temps get above freezing as the forecast says. I see a few things waking up in addition to the henbit and other assorted early native annuals. I just hope they don't get in too much of a hurry and get zapped by a late freeze.

I think (I hope) the freezing weather is not expected to come as far south as us. Everything here is greening up rapidly.

Would anyone like any of these seeds? I'm retiring Tiny Tim from my collection as I'm adding in a new microdwarf. The yellow one I received in a giveaway last year and I never used them. Date is still good on them.
The seed in the little blue bag is a type of cilantro that came from a garden mix.
If anyone wants them, I'd prefer an SASE as I'm running low on stamps. No trading.



No success in the mousetraps, the trap doors were drooping, so the mouse escaped. Dumb, expensive, cheap made traps.



Big beautiful but sneaky swallowtail that likes my bok choy blooms. He didn't appreciate being targeted for my photography subject and tried to come back only if I walked away.