B & C Gardening

B & C Gardening We are North Central Texas (zone 8a/8b) gardeners who choose to garden naturally without chemical means.

Things you might find on our page: food preservation, planting tips, fun garden critters, seasonal garden updates, local farmer's market(s) info, etc.

Catnip rich.
04/11/2026

Catnip rich.

March '26 recap!
04/01/2026

March '26 recap!

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03/11/2026

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Most backyards have food for wildlife.

Very few have warmth.

Cold-blooded animals don’t generate body heat. They borrow it from the sun — and they need a place that stores that heat safely. In nature, that’s flat rock ledges with crevices underneath.

In a modern yard, those almost never exist anymore.

Mulch stays cool.
Grass offers no shelter.
Concrete is too exposed to predators.

So the animals you do want in your garden — garter snakes, skinks, toads, salamanders — pass through your yard instead of living in it.

A simple rock stack fixes that.

A few flat stones layered with small gaps creates a tiny temperature gradient:
sun-warm on top, mild in the middle, cool and safe below.

To a reptile, that isn’t decoration.
It’s infrastructure.

Within days:
• garter snakes begin hunting slugs and grubs
• toads shelter during the day and eat insects at night
• beetles and spiders move in and control pests
• salamanders use the damp lower chamber

The rocks keep warmth after sunset and stay warmer than air in winter. For small animals, that can be the difference between surviving the season and freezing.

Place one near a garden edge and you’re not attracting wildlife —
you’re giving the wildlife already living around you a reason to stay.

Your yard doesn’t need to be wilder.

It just needs somewhere life can live.

03/09/2026

Call us crazy, but we planted tomatoes and peppers today. 😬🤞

*Update... NO HAIL! Yay!*Early March documentation before the hail wipes it out tomorrow.
03/07/2026

*Update... NO HAIL! Yay!*

Early March documentation before the hail wipes it out tomorrow.

Getting the 2026 garden season rolling!
02/23/2026

Getting the 2026 garden season rolling!

October & November 2025
02/23/2026

October & November 2025

September 2025 recap
02/23/2026

September 2025 recap

August 2025 recap... Been holding on to these for a minute lol
02/23/2026

August 2025 recap... Been holding on to these for a minute lol

July 2025 recap... Better late than never.
02/23/2026

July 2025 recap... Better late than never.

01/04/2026

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