GARDEN GUIDES
Edible Gardening
PECAN & FRUIT SPRAY SCHEDULE
Pecan Spray Schedule: Dormant Season: Apply Hi-Yield Dormant Oil to prevent scale and phylloxera. Spray trunks and branches thoroughly. Budbreak: Apply Hi-Yield Zinc Sulfate as…
Fruit, Nut, and Berry Guide
This guide is written to help you, the homeowner, grow your very own fruit trees and berries from initial transplant stages to maturity and harvest…
Vegetable Planting Guide for North Central Texas
VEGETABLE PLANTING GUIDE FOR NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS Vegetable Type Planting Depth (inches) Inches between rows Avg Crop Height (Feet) Spring Planting Dates Fall Planting Dates…
How to Create an Easy, Fast and Economical Raised Garden Bed
Materials for a 4’ x 8′ prepared and raised bed for flowers, vegetables, and other beautiful plants: 20 Cinder blocks (8″ x 8” x 16″)…
SUCCESSFUL ASPARAGUS PLANTING
Need: Rich, well-drained soil–Covington’s Soil Builder w/Shale Asparagus crowns Ferti-lome Gardener’s Special (11-15-11) Hi-Yield Ammonium Sulfate (21-0-0) A few basic facts about asparagus: • An…
SUCCESSFUL POTATO PLANTING
Need: Rich, well drained soil-Covington’s Soil Builder w/Shale Seed Potatoes Ferti-lome Gardener’s Special (11-15-11) or Dusting Sulfur – for dusting cut potatoes Organic – Happy…
SUCCESSFUL ONION & LEEK PLANTING
Need: Rich, well-drained soil–Covington’s Soil Builder w/shale Onion sets and/or leeks Hi-Yield Ammonium Sulfate (21-0-0) and Ferti-lome Gardener’s Special (11-15-11) OR For Organic Gardens: Hi-Yield…
Secret Soil Recipe for Great Tomatoes
Secret Soil Recipe for Great Tomatoes in Your Garden (Works great for Peppers, Eggplant and Potatoes too!) Based on a raised bed with 4 ft.…
Garden Soils and Vegetable Selection in North Texas
A vegetable garden can be one of the most rewarding landscape projects you’ve ever taken on! More and more people are taking an interest in…
Fall Vegetable Garden
Enjoying the Second Season in North Texas What is the Fall Garden, and Why Plant One? As summer rolls in, it’s time in…
Birds, Butterflies & Other Critters
Easiest Butterflies to Attract to Our Gardens
Click here to download the butterfly pdf.
Attracting Pollinators in the Dallas Area
Attracting Pollinators in the Dallas Area by Roseann Ferguson, DCMG Major pollinators: bees, butterflies, moths, birds, bats, beetles, other insects Importance of…
Plants That Naturally Deter Mosquitoes
HERBS Citronella (Geranium) – Sun Lemon Grass – Sun to Part-Shade Rosemary – Sun Lavender – Sun
Plants that Attract Hummingbirds
Flowers are a beautiful and natural way to attract hummingbirds. Here are some plants (listed by common name) you can plant to get the hummingbirds…
Deer & Rabbit Resistant Plants
Deer Resistant Plants We hate to be the bearer of bad news, but there are few, if any, plants that can be called truly deer…
Butterfly Nectar and Host Plants
As the name suggests, these plants are the ones that attract mature butterflies to feed on nectar, which is their primary source of food in…
Butterfly Gardens for North Texas
Butterflies are attracted by certain, specific plants. Two kinds of plants… host plants that they lay eggs on, and nectar-producing plants that the adult butterflies…
Gardening Tips
Monthly garden-guide Tips (Conventional & Organic) – October
Fall is the BEST time to Plant! PLANT: Annuals & Perennials-Pansies, violas, ornamental cabbage/kale, cyclamen, mums, snapdragons, crotons, ornamental peppers, dianthus, salvia, gaura, coreopsis, asters,…
Monthly garden-guide Tips (Conventional & Organic) – September
PLANT: Annuals & Perennials- Fall petunias, mums, asters, snapdragons, crotons, ornamental peppers, marigolds, purple fountain grass, salvias, rudbeckia, coneflowers, coreopsis, sedum, coral bells, and more.…
Monthly garden-guide Tips (Conventional & Organic) – August
PLANT: Annuals & Tropicals – Vinca, angelonia, marigolds, pentas, lantana, blue daze, zinnias, moss rose, sweet potato vine, ornamental peppers, hibiscus, bougainvillea, mandevilla, esparanza, coleus,…
Palm Care – Reduce Winter Damage on Palms
There are measures you can take to reduce damage brought on by winter freezes. First, make sure to keep plenty of frost cloth on hand…
Houseplant Care
HOUSEPLANT CARE SHEET
Tree Care for the First Two Years
Congratulations on the purchase of your new tree! Your new plants will need extra care for the first two years while they are establishing healthy…
Perennial Guide
Perennials in your garden will do more than look pretty, many of them also attract wildlife such as hummingbirds and butterflies. This lists contains some…
Indian Hawthorn in the North Texas Landscape – Selection, Planting, and Maintenance in North Texas
Indian hawthorn add huge splashes of color in the spring to North Texas landscapes! Beautiful, colorful shows of pinks and whites dominate sunny areas on…
Summer Survival in North Texas
(Keeping your yard beautiful even when it’s hot!) If there’s one consistent thing about Texas weather, it’s this: While our summers can be cloudy, clear,…
Monthly garden-guide Tips (Conventional & Organic) – June
PLANT: • Annuals–Begonia, impatiens, lantana, angelonia, vinca, sweet potato vine, caladium, purslane, scaevola, moss rose, coleus, celosia, pentas, zinnias, bougainvillea, hibiscus, mandevilla, etc. • Perennials-pincushion,…
Mulch, Soil, & Stone
Soil Recipe for Acid Loving Plants
RAISED BED PREPARATION FOR ACID LOVING ORNAMENTAL PLANTS AND EDIBLES Plants that thrive in acidic soils but can be grown successfully in North Texas…
Preparing Your Soil for Success
PREPARING YOUR SOIL FOR SUCCESS Healthy soil that sustains a wide variety of ornamental, edible and shade giving plants in our North Texas home…
How to Make Compost
HOW TO MAKE COMPOST COMPOSTING Composting is a technique used to accelerate the natural decay process. The technique converts organic wastes to a mulch which…
Best Organic Amendments for North Texas Soil
Alfalfa Meal – Provides many nutritional benefits not only for plant use, but for soil organisms as well. One very important ingredient is tricontanol, a…
Covington’s Indoor/Outdoor Potting Soil
We have greatly improved on our Covington’s Potting Soil to help our customers have even greater success. The new Covington’s Potting Soil will include: Peat…
Covington’s Premium Soil Builder
Covington’s Premium Soil Builder is the perfect soil additive for planting trees and shrubs for our metroplex clay soils. Soil Builder is based off of…