Growing Grasses in Your Garden
September 04, 2015 While ornamental grasses first showed up as an unproven landscape trend, they have settled in as a mainstay within Colorado’s landscape. Many of these grasses offer what Colorado...
Gardens
How Hard Does Your Landscape Work?
September 04, 2015 Day in and day out our landscapes work for us. Even though we usually think about the sweat equity we, as busy weed-pulling and lawn-mowing humans invest in them, our landscapes do labor...
What’s a Garden Worth?
September 04, 2015 Even though this growing season got off to bumpy start with drenching rains and hail, the harvest is beginning. There are some harvesting tips below – but before you go there, take...
Veggies to Plant Now
September 04, 2015 Our night-time temps are cooling – and the hours of sunshine are growing less each day. These are the right conditions to plant leafy greens, root crops and tender herbs for fall...
Know About Heat-Stressed Veggies
September 04, 2015
Now that Colorado is finally moving into the hot days of summer, be aware of how warmer temps affect edibles – especially our No. 1 homegrown crop, tomatoes. While we often...
Use hardy ice plants to bring low-growing color
June 03, 2015 Colorado is fortunate to have a wide assortment of plants introduced by Denver Botanic Gardens’ Senior Curator, Panayoti Kelaidis.
Among his finds are South African ice plants...
Dealing with rain
May 27, 2015 Because of extended rains, most planting beds are full of mud, muk and yuk. Even if you are willing to take a shovel to these super-saturated soils, is it worth the effort?
The short...
Great Gift Ideas
May 17, 2015 #1 – Grafted tomatoes
While they have been available for a couple of years, gardeners are just becoming aware of these tomatoes. Their benefits are that they are more vigorous,...
Winning The War on Weeds
April 13, 2015 Now there’s warm weather and suddenly, it’s dandelion season. They are blooming their yellow heads off, bind weed is winding its way around the garden and thistle, mallow and...
Getting the Veggie Season Off the Ground
March 23, 2015 Growing your own veggies that can go from the garden to the table in a matter of minutes is not a fad but a solid trend. Even restaurants are establishing their own gardens to give their...
Help Plants Survive the Snow
February 23, 2015 The heavy snowfall predicted this weekend is a reminder that we’re heading into the season of heavy spring snows when plants may need extra TLC from their human caretakers.
Deep...
Are Your Plants Dry? Probably.
February 06, 2015 This weekend marks the midpoint between two weeks of almost spring-like weather throughout much of Colorado. This weekend could also be a critical time to water plants as warm temps and...