Texas Gardening: Creeping Thyme as a lawn, 1 by morganc

morganc wrote:
I'm with you Tonya on a more "Cottage Garden" look. We bought old ranch land as well and built. Lousy soil and lots of rock.......we ended up bringing in truckloads of dirt just to start. 2 Years later we built raised beds for the vegetables and herbs and brought in more dirt. After 5 years of amending and composting it is coming around.

But you have a clean slate to work with which is major fun! Try the Thyme idea and see if it works....all you are out is a little seed. Somethings work for one and not another.....go figure.

Oh, and make friends with the deer in your area and they are less likely (but not guaranteed) to leave your plants alone. We feed out deer fruit and veggie scraps and deer corn. They like us.

Let us know what happens.

Pam