Houston / Zone 9a–9b
Beautiful edible backyards.
I help suburban homeowners turn ordinary backyards into clean, productive food systems. Use what's already there — the fence, the corner, the patio edge. Grow up, not out. Structure first, plants second.
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Use what you have
Fence lines, corners, patio edges, side strips. Most yards waste their best growing space.
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Structure first
Trellises, raised beds, mounted planters, drip routing. Build the bones before the plants.
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One zone at a time
Skip the homesteader chaos. Build one right. The next one's better because of it.
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What to plant in Houston right now.
Most planting calendars don't work in Houston. They were written for somewhere cooler. They tell you to plant tomatoes in May. By May you're losing them to heat.
This 2-page calendar was built specifically for Zone 9a/9b. The exact months for every major crop, the two real planting windows, the summer survival window, and when to start fall seeds indoors.
When to plant
You can start in January. But only if you're ready to cover your plants for a couple cold nights when a front rolls through.
Or you wait. Until February. Until March. Until the first real planting window that doesn't fight you back.
Houston runs on two real windows — spring (March–May) and fall (September–November). Everything else is either prep or survival. Plant for the window, not the calendar.
Ready to build the whole thing?
The Beautiful Edible Backyard System.
A 7-page guide that walks you through the full system — from fence-line layout to vertical growing to hidden irrigation. Real backyard photos. No filler.