Horny Toad Horticulture

08/22/2025

Today was a sweet time at the with all the market homies!

Come see us next Thursday from 430-730pm at the


ranch

08/21/2025

07/28/2025

07/28/2025

Heyyyyyyyy Tucson Gardeners! I am back home on the seed farm harvesting some awesome mammoth sunflower seeds.

Have you ever eaten a fresh little moist sunflower seed right off the head? Nothing quite compares in my mind. These seeds are huge and make great little protien snacks for when it's 110 degrees but you still have work to do out here. I'm just trying not to eat them all.

Alot of my sunflower seeds are empty this season, they are not getting pollinated very well this year and I'm wondering why?

We need to plant more for our pollinators that's for sure. This year saw a devastating decline in bee populations and I have seen less butterflies and moths than usual too. Its sad but I'm just going to keep on working my little plot of earth and try to do what I can right now. Lets plant all those native pollinator plants with the rains!

See you at a market soon!

07/18/2025

Hanging at the with my fave

Come get some propagating bouquets!!!!

07/09/2025

Italian white sunflower

07/09/2025

Making my own mulch is like a dream come true. I used to buy mulch in the form of snall wood chips or bales of hay. Not a bad way to mulch because I bought in bulk so it wasn't too expensive but now I have a Chipper/shredder I got for mothers day. Nothing says happy.mothers day like buying me a loud and destructive machine that'll take out all my existential rage and make me some valuable mulch.

Its 111 degrees today in Tucson and my gardens are all getting mulched. Even the pots and raised beds get a fat layer of insulating organic material. In deep summer I use about an inch or 2 on the top soil to keep temperatures down and moisture locked in on these hottest and driest days.

We have 2 more months of heat so if you want to save water and make your soil cooler and healthier add that mulch it's a game changer!

06/23/2025

Zinnia are some of the best and most beautiful heat and drought tolerant flowers for bouquets! I'll grow these from spring to winter and cut them and they bloom again and again!

So pretty!!!!

Another great thing about zinnia is that not a lot of wildlife eat it, although I have caught my bunnies grazing on it a little lately.

06/22/2025

The last artichoke to blooming, blossomed hanging upside down! Artichoke season is coming to an end but these plant are perennial and will remain dormant in the soil till things cool down a bit in winter. They bloom all spring and you can only harvest seeds kf you don't eat the heads.

06/22/2025

Black eyed Susan's!

06/22/2025

Baby bunnies hopping all over my yard this morning and they are so fast! I finally caught a little pic of one. So cute, they don't eat much! Hahaha

06/21/2025

Spotted another narrow mouthed toad today in the gardens. They are so cute!!!!