I made a mistake on the title. Please disregard the "findin" and post on the new post I've made.

phasv2, You should definitely do a soil test, Auburn and A&M have very good facilities should you decide to use one. They will even tell you what to use to fix problems if they find them. Have you been to any of the wineries in our area? They are popping up all over the place and offer a ton of great ideas. I know that asparagus given the right soil will do well here, and artichokes are okay as well, both being perennial. You might also look into strawberries as you can get 3-4 years out of them, but rarely a 1st year do they produce in the home garden. Not to mention, nearly all of this can be implemented into a home landscape. If you go with some blueberries, try for 6 bushes if you have room all different varieties, from 2 early, 2 mid, and 2 late season that way you can have them all spring through summer. Or you could just get to early, 2 mid, or two late complimenting varieties. Personally I like Austin, Tifblue, and Oneill. I am planning on planting about 25 soon on our land when we get the well done, I am going to do to southern lowbush, the rest will be rabbiteye and will be planting them like that to get a consistent crop. You might want to look into things that attract bees for bluberry cross pollination to increase yeilds if you go this route.

Where is home? Its a bit early to find milkweed growing right now. Later in the growing season, look in a moist ditch line that hasn't been mowed or the back slope of roadways. (for common milkweed) A. Tuberosa perfers dryer conditions than common milkweed (a. syriaca). You can buy a. Tuberosa online from Prairie Nursery.

Heather, We were on our way home from Lewisville after a morning of shopping followed by lunch when our phones went crazy to tell us of a tornado in Arlington and one near DeSoto. Our son had been shopping in Dallas but was on the road home ahead of us. We walked in the door shortly thereafter to see the live chopper video from KXAS that was showing on TWC while Dr. Forbes was giving updates. I never in my life thought I'd see semi trailers swirling through the air like that, not even on TV. Incredible. I think the airport was missed, but Tim and Chris were monitoring constantly. Our former daughter in law was texting our son to tell him she could see the tornado from her place of employment in Irving. It was a few crazy minutes. The one you mentioned near Denton....maybe that is what now has left Addison headed northeast? For all of you who are wondering where else it was happening, just a minute ago there were 4 active tornado warnings with at least a confirmed funnel cloud in the Addison to Plano corridor, something else headed towards Arlington and Ground Prairie and another warning area near Greenville and Sulphur Springs. There's a lot of red in the radar. Heather, Last night with storms to our far west and to our southeast, we had a very brief appearance of a small area of mammatus clouds. Tim pointed them out to me and I said "it is an omen" but I was kidding, and they went away after 10 or 15 minutes and the sky cleared and was blue and sunny again. I guess it was an omen 18 hours in advance. Carol, Thanks for thinking of us. As often as I mention D-FW and my guys working there, I figured I'd better post they were okay so you and others would know. Thanks for the thoughts and prayers. So far, as near as we can determine, everyone we know is fine, but the continuing storms remind us no one is really out of the woods yet. I'm glad we went to Lewisville this morning and not this afternoon. We still have hail damage to the car we haven't had repaired yet from the last tornado path Tim unwittingly strayed into. He was hoping the damage would "pop out" in last summer's heat, but finally gave up on that thought and the insurance company just cut us a check to get it fixed. My thoughts and prayers are with everyone in the path of today's storms. Dawn