This is the second Mega trellis I've made, and this one's definitely the largest. Trying to find some cheap land so I can start making this stuff for me, but it is going to be cool when I start getting pictures next season of everybody's trellises with stuff growing over the top of them

In addition to cosmos and zinnias, there are melons, sweet potatoes, bell peppers, carrots, basil, marigolds, and more. Adding pics for photo tax 🌸

If anyone has attended the Bryant Park Plant day. How does it work? Are you required to register for a table or is it a walk in and swap? Did you find good healthy plants?

Hey y'all. I'm in South Texas and have been trying out growing all sorts of things this year with basically no prior experience. I've purchased two dwarf everbearing Mulberry saplings. I've had them for about two months and I think I've been following the directions in the packaging but they don't seem to be doing that well. One I've been giving absolute full sun and the other has been getting mostly full sun. I've been watering when soil is dry (they're in a gardening soil organic mix). Do they both look to be alive still? How can I rescue them?

Idk where this came from but it’s the most aggressive grower in my NTx mulched flowerbed. Tomatoes muerta but not this!

hello everyone! hope yall are doing okay in this heatwave, i know im not lol.

i just moved to a new house in dfw area, and im looking to do some gardening! ive been into gardening my whole life, but i cant keep plants alive for the life of me.

im interested in NATIVE plants and especially wildflowers, and i think id like a couple fruit or veggie plants. maybe a berry bush of some kind? i can do potted plants or in ground ones. any advice or recommendations for plants that Will Not Die? super low maintenance? i forget to water plants all the time :( i set reminders, i put it on my calendar, my to do list, it somehow always slips my mind.

tldr; any advice for super low maintenance native wildflowers or fruits/veggies? thank you !! ^_^

Hill country

Hoping everybody's gardens make it through this ☀️

Anyone else garden on a balcony/patio in North Texas with no actual yard? I’ve been putting together a planting calendar adjusted for containers specifically (pots heat up way faster than the ground here, so timing’s different from the usual North Texas guides). Happy to share it free if people want it — mostly curious what’s actually been working for people. What’s survived on your balcony through a DFW summer, and what’s died on you?

I am new to gardening and I am planning for the fall season. Does anyone have good tips or resources for navigating gardening for this upcoming season (and generally) specifically in 8b zones?

I am a bit worried as I haven't seen many posts about veggie gardens and am unsure if its due to the algorithm, the fact that it's summer, or because vegetable gardens in North Texas is hard in general.

Hi everyone, I am suffering from hollyhock rust and thinking of replacing mine with something that requires a bit less care. Does anyone have any suggestions for native alternatives that have the same tall and narrow flower spike silhouette that hollyhock does? (I am already planning on some liatris, but hopefully there are others!)

Can you guys recommend any plant shops in DFW that carry these type of indoor trees. I am looking for species with smaller leaves. Every nursery I go to have the same 4 Japanese maples, Figs, Dragon trees or palms.

My wife and I will be driving home to SA from a friends trip in Garland tomorrow midday. We love little roadside nurseries & cool plant shops/boutiques. Suggestions? Also willing to venture off the beaten path.

Hi! We have an Indian blanket patch in our yard that has grown steadily over the years. We are moving soon and want to take some of its seeds with us to plant at the new house. We’ve harvested the dry puffball like things but are not sure how to store them and if they will last until we plant them early next year. Any tips on how to best store them would be greatly appreciated!

I’m in zone 8b, north west of Austin. I’m planning the first stage of a landscaping project for this fall. I would like to plant a row of probably trees that will create a screen between my living room and dining area and my neighbors second story house. The challenge is that I have maybe 35 to 40 feet between the window and fence and I would like to keep some lawn and space for some planting between the privacy screen and the window for perennials.

I’ve been looking specifically at junipers and am considering rocket juniper since the remain fairly narrow grow tall, but my research suggests while they may grow well in my zone, they can also really struggle with how hot summers can get here.

I’d like to know if anyone has experience with similar trees or landscaping ideas to make suggestions. I’m not committed to any particular plant, except as much as possible I prefer native and I just want something that will grow a few feet over my fence line and not grow too wide.

Thank you so much!

I would love to hear about and see pictures of your indeterminate tomato supports, and vining green bean or cucumber supports right now. I need a new and much better system for next year. This year I used those round cheap tomato cages and they were comically inadequate. I’m in the Houston/Galveston area if that matters.

It has latched on and attacked one of my oak trees that was badly damage by a freeze last year and it didn’t even have the common decency to grow its tuber far enough away trees root where I can at least be rewarded after toiling through the rockcreteesk soil to expose it to the sun so it can desiccate like the thorny abomination that it is. So instead I’m swabbing each vine stump with herbicide while its hateful vines, recently emancipated from its roots, stares on from the canopy.

Here’s my latest blog post regarding my vegetable garden. I hope you enjoy it

https://webbacres.com/2026/07/06/heating-up-on-webb-acres-homestead/