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Floydada · FloydadaThere’s lots of planting to be done in our vegetable gardens this month. The late summer/fall vegetable garden includes plantings of both warm-season vegetables (many of the same ones we planted in spring) and some of the more heat-tolerant, cool-season…See the Story
Fall crops of tomatoes, beans and more can flourish — if you plant now. Dan Gill tells us how.
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Floydada · FloydadaWhen Floyd County’s seat was named in 1890 for an 1836 defender of the Alamo, it was called Floyd City, according to the Handbook of Texas Online—and there are at least three versions on how the “Ada” was added. But no one back then expected their unique placename would wind up attached to one of America’s nuclear tests between 1945 and 1991, had they even been able to envision an atom, or that it would be possible to split one.Read Article