Watering a Garden in Utah: How Much, How Often, and the Local Rules
Utah gardens live or die by two numbers: 52.1 days a year that hit 90F or hotter, and a summer sky that hands over almost none of the water a garden bed…
Utah Soil: What You Are Digging Into, and How to Improve It
Utah soil, according to USDA’s representative state series, is the Mivida series: a dry-climate Aridisol that runs alkaline, sandy, and low in organic…
Utah Planting Calendar: When to Sow and Plant, Frost Dates Included
A plain-language guide to Utah’s spring and fall frost dates, cool-season and warm-season planting windows, and where to check local extension guidance.
Growing Onions in Utah: Which Varieties Actually Bulb
Salt Lake City sits at 40.78 degrees north, and on the longest day of the year it gets 14 hours and 56 minutes of daylight.
Flowers That Actually Thrive in Utah, and the Ones That Struggle
A plain-language guide to which flowers survive Utah’s cold winters and hot, dry summers, using NOAA and USDA climate data for Salt Lake City.
Watering a Garden in Texas: How Much, How Often, and the Local Rules
Texas gardens don’t fail from neglect. They fail from misreading the state’s own extremes: a Gulf Coast summer that logs over 100 days above 90°F, soil…
Texas Soil: What You Are Digging Into, and How to Improve It
Dig a spade into typical Texas ground and odds are you’ll hit clay that either cracks like a dry lakebed or clings to your boot like wet cement.
Texas Planting Calendar: When to Sow and Plant, Frost Dates Included
NOAA’s Houston frost normals anchor this Texas planting calendar, with the math shown so gardeners anywhere in the state can adjust it to their own zone.
Growing Onions in Texas: Which Varieties Actually Bulb
At Houston’s latitude, roughly 30 degrees north, only short-day onions reliably form bulbs.
Flowers That Actually Thrive in Texas, and the Ones That Struggle
A practical breakdown of which flowers handle Texas heat, drought and wide zone range, and which ones fail no matter how you baby them.