Texas

 Texas is a beautiful State.  I have small backyard,  I am keeping more garden soil mixed with various soils, more earth worm castings, adding more compost mixes,  keeping multiple layers of  mowed grass mixing with soil and watering to needed level to improve the soil quality and proving small ecosystem to survive.  Keeping many plants.   however the  summer is still very challenging.  it needs constant attention.  As the global warming is raising, it is important to keep steps to improve the ecosystem ecosystem and soil quality.  Texas soil contains more lime stones and soil contains more clay soil which get tightened and does not allow water to go to the ground in Summer or later in raining season.  Let us segregate few areas  1.  Keep shades for the plants in summer :   How can we keep the soil surface cool.  One is to keep more compost of leaves in the soil.  Keep more plants to cover soi...