Tag: Gardening
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Year-round gardening: How to attract bees to your garden
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save It’s no secret that pollinators are the key to plant survival. For those who have an appreciation for our buzzing brethren, there are various options to attract them to your home. With almost 1,000 native species of bees in Colorado, creating a hospitable space for…
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Year-round gardening: Dealing with deer can be difficult
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Deer can be a challenge to gardeners in our region. Physical barriers such as fences can be quite effective as long as they are tall enough that deer cannot clear (6-10 feet tall). Smaller barriers can be useful if you make the error of planting…
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Year-round gardening: A guide to geraniums and pelargoniums
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Geraniums and pelargoniums are easy-to-grow perennials familiar to most gardeners but often confused with one another. While both are in the geranium family, the most common plants sold as geraniums are actually pelargoniums. True geraniums are the “cranesbills,” hardy North American and European herbaceous perennials.…
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Year-round gardening: Now’s the time to join a community garden
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Community gardening has existed for as long as people have been cultivating food. In many early societies, individual survival depended on the survival of the group, tribe, community, family or other collective. Today most people do not have that experience of a community connection to…
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Year-round gardening: Want to garden, but don’t want to spend your life savings?
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Gardening is very fulfilling, but the sticker cost to get started can seem a bit overwhelming. Regardless of where you are in your gardening journey, here are a few tips to keep your plants —…
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Year-round gardening: Get busy in May’s garden
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save “While strolling through the park one day, in the merry, merry month of May …” This song lyric was published in 1884 by Willis Woodward & Co. of New York and to this day can…
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Year-round gardening: This flower gives maximum blooms for minimum work
Garden trivia: What do tomatoes and dahlias have in common? Dahlias are easy plants to grow and they yield beautiful blooms from midsummer through fall. In many respects, “dahlia culture” is similar to “tomato culture.” If you can grow tomatoes in your garden, you can successfully grow dahlias. Another similarity is that most gardeners can’t…
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Year-round gardening: Cool-season vegetables can provide boost to spring gardens
Now that the snow has melted, gardeners are itching to get into their gardens. Planting cool-season vegetables is one way to get a garden going in early spring. Vegetables are grouped into two categories — cool season and warm season — determined by soil, nighttime temperatures and tolerance for light frost. Hardy, cool-season vegetables can…
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Year-round gardening: Low-maintenance, low-water, low-effort lawn conversion
As water prices rise, and time is precious, gardeners are beginning to rethink turf, preferring to spend time hiking or playing pickleball rather than mowing lawns or motivated by a desire to reduce irrigation costs. While it might be tempting to consider converting turf to an all-rock landscape, we discourage it for a variety of…
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Year-round gardening: Pruning at the proper time pays big dividends later
Shrubs and trees can be pruned to improve structure, maximize blooms and/or fruit production, or to remove damaged or diseased branches. Such branches should be removed as soon as possible. They provide portals for pathogens to infect or infest the tree. Do not use a wound sealer, as this causes more harm than good. Pruning…