Month: August 2024

TIPS TO CONSERVE WATER IN THE VEGETABLE GARDEN

By Yvette Henson, San Miguel Basin, CSU Extension Colorado has a semi-arid to arid native climate with recurring durations of drought. However, vegetation throughout the panorama current many benefits like cooling the air temperature spherical and inside our homes. There are moreover bodily and psychological properly being benefits from rising…

Retaining Your Aspen Bushes Healthful

By Eric McPhail, Gunnison County CSU ExtensionEveryone enjoys watching the aspen leaves as they glitter in the wind and alter colors. Nonetheless aspens do have enemies. Two of the most typical are cankers and Eriophyid mites. Cankers The time interval canker describes an house of ineffective cambium (residing cells merely beneath…

Colorado Mountain Gardener: Homegrown Arugula in January!

By Lindsay Graves, Eagle County CSU Extension Grasp GardenerHomegrown arugula in January? At 6,700′? Yep! With some low tech season extension strategies, the hardiest salad greens will overwinter in a whole lot of Colorado, so that you presumably can have the benefit of tasty treats in winter and early spring…

Time to Take a Stroll By means of the Wildflowers

By Susan Carter, CSUE Tri River Area Horticulture and Pure Helpful useful resource AgentWith drought by the use of quite a lot of Western Colorado, and reduce snow portions in plenty of areas, snow soften was earlier this 12 months than common. We start our CSU Extension Native Plant Grasp…

My Yellow Rose Of Colorado

By Ed Powers, Colorado Grasp GardenerI have written two earlier blogs about my love of cactus by which I included particulars about Colorado Cactus identification and data on the cactus yard I tried to complete. I am nonetheless engaged on that yard. In a kind of earlier blogs, I known…

Colorado Mountain Gardener: The Excellent Monarch Butterfly

By Lisa Mason, Horticulture Agent, Colorado State Faculty Extension, Arapahoe County Monarch butterflies are an iconic species in america! These vivid orange and black butterflies are recognized for his or her migration in North America. How do these small creatures make the three,000-mile journey yearly? Identification Whereas the extreme orange…

Colorado Mountain Gardener: Joe Pye Weed

By Cherie Luke, Jefferson County Grasp Gardener since 2014 Eupatorium purpureum which has formally been modified to Eutrochium purpureum, aka Joe Pye weed, is a North American native throughout the Asteraceae family. There are about 40 species on this genus. The crops range in peak from 2′-3′ for Little Joe, to…

Battling with Rodents in My Yard

By Ed Powers, Jefferson County Grasp Gardener Like loads of you, I’ve battled pests and varmints in my yard. The ultimate 2 years my vegetable gardens have been very disappointing. The sooner 7 years I had gardens that produced little or no. My essential villains are mice, voles, rabbits, chipmunks and…

A Helpful Software program for Watering Successfully

By Kristina Hughes, Clear Creek County Grasp Gardener ‘Tis the season to start occupied with fall and wintering watering. And in Colorado, it is always the season to think about simple strategies to water efficiently and successfully. A few years prior to now, I was tasked with watering an enormous planter…

Don’t switch firewood, It Bugs me! It really burns me up.

By Jim Janks, Gunnison County Superior Grasp GardenerI have a bumper sticker on my truck that claims, “Don’t switch firewood, it bugs me.” I really don’t know if people who study it understand what’s making an attempt to be acknowledged, nonetheless once you care about our pure and concrete forests,…

A 12 months at Brandywine Cottage: E-book Evaluation

It’s the middle of January, and I’m hungry for spring. Spring gained’t come for another couple of months in my native climate, so I whet my urge for meals with inspirational gardening books. Thought of considered one of my favorites is The Layered Yard (aff. hyperlink) by David Culp. I…

My New Fave Winter Bloomer

The intention of houseplants (in winter) is to ameliorate the results of cabin fever. The simplest houseplants for this operate develop fast adequate you may see modifications from every day, and they also moreover bloom–strengthening the illusion that exact gardening is going on. Flowering bulbs are well-suited to the obligation–the…

Forcing Branches

Forcing branches of flowering shrubs and timber is a skill I try and get larger at yearly–it’s one different strategy to rush spring up. Compared with closing yr, this winter has been additional continuously snowy and chilly. It hasn’t been severely chilly, nevertheless we haven’t had the intermittent thaws that…

Have you ever ever considered a broadfork?

I decided on a broadfork in a roundabout method. I was rooting pink pussy willow cuttings and wanted to current them a delicate residence for various years sooner than planting them of their wilder, permantent location. I had surplus colchicum corms that I knew I would uncover residence for–nonetheless maybe…