Ray's Thought for the Day - Gardening for Everybody!!!!

Hark! I can hear a tiny cry on my ear drum at this very nonce. Hark! The tiny cry is, "Ray, Ray, I can't grow anything. Boo hoo. Everything I try to grow, dies! Boo-hoo!"

Yep. Many cry out in despair when it comes to gardening. But that's because these many despairing gardeners have too high aspirations for themselves and their plants. But hope has come to these parts. Despairing gardeners, you can too grow lots of plants up to their adult status and even keep them going year after year so you may enjoy having them around until you die. Wouldn't that be great!!!!

You just need to start off with hardy type plants. Hardy type plants are the hope mentioned above for you despairing gardeners. Here's some of these hopeful plants that I can highly recommend. These will outlive you, fer sure.

bur clover - especially the little fuzzy one, Medicago minima

bermudagrass

King Ranch bluestem

rescuegrass

Japanese brome

If you would like to try a native species, this is a really good one.

socks bedstraw - Galium virgatum

Best of all, everyone of these plants can be obtained right now for free. Here's how to get these free, long-lived plants, for free. Remember these presumptive plants will outlive you. Ha!

Here's what you do. Go just about anywhere outdoors after a good rain. You will have to find some place where you can get off the pavement. Remember! And I can not emphasize this point too strongly, to obtain these plants, you must somehow get off the pavement. Once you are off in the grass, track around in the grass until you get your shoes all muddy. Take those shoes off. Then, roll those shoes up in a newspaper and put them in your great vehicle. Next track around the grass in your stocking feet. Then, take those socks or stockings off. Roll them up in a newspaper and put them in your great vehicle, too.

Put on some spare shoes and stockings that you brought along for this occasion. Remember! It is against the law to drive barefooted in the Republic of Tejas. When you get home, throw your muddy shoes and socks into the the garden area you have tilled up previously. Soon, you will have all these plants growing in your garden. Plus, they will outlive, you!!!!