Spring Preparations...
Spring is just around the corner. And it's time to get your yard, garden, and flowerbeds ready for the spring and summer.
Earth Works has all the best soil additives you'll need to help enrich your soil.
We have compost in bulk and bagged.
We have several great organic fertilizers to help your lawn, flowers, shrub and trees, vegetables, potted plants, and anything else to grow healthy and strong.
We have mulch in bulk and bagged. Mulch is very important to use as a top dressing especially during our summers. It will help to keep moisture in the soil, keep your roots cooler, and help with weed control.

Past Tips

Basil tip...
Unfortunately basil does not like cool temperatures, so, now is the time to harvest it.  One way to preserve it is to make pesto.  Pesto will keep for months in the freezer.

Beneficial Insects...
All gardeners eagerly await the arrival of spring. Sunshine, more daylight hours, warm temperatures, and BUGS! Bugs seem to be as excited as we are to have spring arrive. Don’t let the “bad guys” bug you. Enlist the help of beneficial insects.
Releasing a Garden Pack of beneficial insects at the first of spring will help to ensure the proliferation of the “good guys.” With the beneficials on duty, your organic program will be off to a great start.
Releasing beneficial insects on a regular schedule, and fertilizing with soil-improving materials will help provide you with excellent long-term control.
Lady bugs- the most popular and most universally known beneficial insect. Adult lady bugs can eat 200 aphids per day; the larvae can eat 70-100 per day. For lady bugs to mature and lay eggs, they need a nectar pollen source, such as flowering plants—yarrow, zinnia, salvia, petunia, alyssum, dianthus.
Lace wings- the adults really aren't terribly beneficial, they just fly around, look pretty, and mate. The larvae, on the other hand, are voracious eaters of aphids, red spider mites, thrips, mealy bugs, scale, and many worms.
Trichogramma Wasps- used to control pecan casebearer, cabbage worms, tomato horn worms, and all other caterpillars. The Trichogramma wasp stings the pest worm egg and deposits its own egg inside. The egg hatches and the larvae feed on and kill the pest.
Fly parasites- used to control flies and keeps them from becoming a nuisance. Fly parasites deposit eggs in the larvae of flies. The wasp egg soon hatches and the wasp larvae feed on the developing fly and destroy it.
Great to use around animal pens, barns, or stable areas.
Chemical pesticides can’t tell the good from the bad. Why not let the good guys get rid of your bad guys? Earthworks has the beneficial insects to rid you of any pest. While you’re here, pick up the Texas Bug Book, by Malcolm Beck and Howard Garrett.