The simple – and not so simple – foundation for growing healthy, thriving, pest and disease free garden crops in Houston begins with great soil composition, or “texture.” Houston’s garden soil composition has been described as “gumbo,” or sometimes “black gumbo” depending where, in the greater Houston area, you live. I

In the fall of 2009, I bought 1500 earthworm cocoons,  scattered them over the soil in my flower beds as well as my raised vegetable garden beds, and lightly raked them in. Each cocoon contained between 2 and 5 eggs; between 3000 and 6000 worms were born, matured and started reproducing