Regardless of how successful you might have been in your previous hometown, you might need to learn to garden all over again now that you are at home in Austin. Let's take a look at pertinent gardening pointers for the first-time groundskeeper in Austin. But the overnight lows in your landscape can be cooler or warmer than the official reading at the weather bureau, depending on where you live. Generally, our winter low temperatures do not dip below 20 degrees with any frequency. Although winter temperatures can be unpredictable, summer temperatures are usually quite predictably hot.
Summers are potentially more devastating to our landscapes than the winters.
So forget about trying to grow item. Our frost-free growing season averages 270 days. Again, averages tell us little. In most years. Rainfall is fairly evenly spaced during the spring, fall and winter, with the summer months usually deficient.