Oh! So this is what's up...

[Mojo]

*appears*

I haven't been as active online as I used to be --RL (not PL) gets in the way. But since I just finished moving several cya. of dirt to the beds (one dump cart at a time, just me and 9yr old El Boy), I thought I'd come online to give an update...

--and discovered that things had changed, to put it mildly. So then, here we are.

I'm still down in Zone 9a (I think that's Sugar Land), increasingly devoting time to citrus trees and figuring out what I can plant that the nutria will not try to make their own. The last few years have been substandard tomato years for me, alas. Two years ago I got in a load of substandard dirt (insufficiently composted) that wrecked my spring crop, but produced a respectable number of fall tomatoes. Last year I got decimated by some kind of burn, origins still unknown; that was a shame because I had rediscovered a lost cache of seeds from the 2010 SETTFest and many of them actually proved viable. This year, fresh regular soil mix is topping off the bed and that's about it, and I'm limiting varieties to proven-for-around-here.

I think this is the right place: someone still looks like his cat...

[worth1]

Howdy Mojo.
Been awhile hasn't it?

[Whwoz]

Welcome to the Junction from Down Under Mojo

[Harry Cabluck]

Welcome... from 25 miles northwest of Bastrop, Texas.

[HenriSportif]

Hi Mojo, welcome! Good luck with your new / amended soil - hope you get lots of what you want from it!

[MissS]

Welcome to the Junction Mojo! So glad that you found us here. You knew you were in the right place when you saw the cat was here.

[AZGardener]

Welcome to the Junction!
You might like Black Gumbo Southern Gardener's Youtube channel. He lives near Houston.

[Nan6b]

Welcome from PA! Looking forward to progress reports & more.

Nan

PS- don't know if you can grow rhubarb in 9A, but nothing up here likes to eat it.

[Amateurinawe]

Welcome from the UK

[Shule]

Welcome, [mention]Mojo[/mention]! It's good to have you.

[Rockoe10]

...
PS- don't know if you can grow rhubarb in 9A, but nothing up here likes to eat it.

Just the Japanese beetles. They were terrible last year. The leaves looked like Swiss Cheese.

[LindyAdele]

Hello and welcome from Canada!
I just landed here myself! So jealous you get multiple crops a year! I'm basically in the frozen north here so I should be grateful I can grow tomatoes at all?!

I had the same issues with garden soil once. Did you find it got better over time? Hoping you have the best garden season yet!