Tag: gardening
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Selecting the best seeds for your vegetable garden
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The activity: Choosing the right seeds for your vegetable garden. Why: The average growing season in our area is 152 days. With such a short span, vegetable gardeners want the greatest harvest of the best-tasting…
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Selecting the best seeds for your vegetable garden
The activity: Choosing the right seeds for your vegetable garden. Why: The average growing season in our area is 152 days. With such a short span, vegetable gardeners want the greatest harvest of the best-tasting food for the time and money spent. Selecting crops and varieties can be overwhelming once the catalogs start arriving. Gardeners…
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Ornamental grasses need cutting back
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Activity: Cutting back ornamental grasses in late winter Why: To ensure proper growth of ornamental grasses, you will need to cut them back each year before new growth emerges. If you wait too long, the…
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Ornamental grasses need cutting back
Activity: Cutting back ornamental grasses in late winter Why: To ensure proper growth of ornamental grasses, you will need to cut them back each year before new growth emerges. If you wait too long, the grasses likely will delay new growth by up to three weeks. This occurs because old leaf blades keep the crowns…
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Setting up a vermiculture system is easy to do
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Editor’s note: This is the first of a two-part series that will conclude next week. The activity: Setting up a vermiculture system for year-round composting. Why: Vermiculture, or the cultivation of worms, is a great…
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Setting up a vermiculture system is easy to do
Editor’s note: This is the first of a two-part series that will conclude next week. The activity: Setting up a vermiculture system for year-round composting. Why: Vermiculture, or the cultivation of worms, is a great way to reuse food scraps and produce a great soil amendment. Worm castings (worm waste) contain higher levels of nitrogen…
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Learning to read nature’s cues can help a gardener
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Phenology is the science of appearances, or knowing which plants can tell you when to start weeding, planting, fighting insects or tackling any other gardening priority. Once the forsythia begins to bloom, for instance, it’s…
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Learning to read nature’s cues can help a gardener
Phenology is the science of appearances, or knowing which plants can tell you when to start weeding, planting, fighting insects or tackling any other gardening priority. Once the forsythia begins to bloom, for instance, it’s time to renew your war against crabgrass. When to fertilize the lawn? Think apple blossoms falling. Time to set out…
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CC project provides taste of gardening
Combine a handful of college students with a vacant plot of land and a few packets of vegetable seeds, and watch a garden grow. That’s what has happened on 1.3 acres behind the house of Colorado College President Dick Celeste. The Colorado College Student Garden project is the outgrowth of the school’s Farm Club, which…
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Gardening books
Gardening and landscape-design books can take you away from your weeding while the weather’s overheating. Here are a few good ones to check out. — “Flower Confidential,” by Amy Stewart. Stewart is a fine interviewer and historian, and she does a superb job with this hardcover scoop on “the good, the bad, and the…