We spent last week in San Antonio doing spring yard work.  We have shrimp plants in the back yard, and they were in stunning form.  I took some pictures to share.  I tried to capture the honey bees busily carrying about their pollination business, but I’m not certain I was successful.  Let’s check the photos and see:

A few months ago, I took a cutting off our fig tree in San Antonio. I’ve been wanting to get a fig established in Central Texas.  The cutting has been doing very well:

It was clearly ready to be transplanted, so I had hubby tell me where he wanted me to plant it (somewhere other than the trash can, please — he isn’t wild about the tree).  Once that was determined, I got a bag of dirt to mix in with our sandy soil, dug a hole, and planted Mr. Fig.  We’ll be traveling for a few weeks, so I borrowed a drip irrigation tub from our neighbors.  We planted Mr. Fig yesterday, and he looks very happy this morning:

Want to make a drip irrigation tub of your own?  Buy or recycle a storage tub of an appropriate size, stop at your favorite aquarium store (PetSmart will work), and get an air valve and, perhaps, some tubing.  Drill a small hole near the bottom of your tub, push the valve into the hole, fill tub with water, adjust the valve for the desired drip.  Tubing will allow you to position the tub a little further away from the plant or area needing irrigation. (I need to get some tubing.)

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