Tag: gardening
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Year-round gardening: A guide to geraniums and pelargoniums
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. The cranesbill name comes from the seedhead that develops after…
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Year-round gardening: Now’s the time to join a community garden
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 food production and consumption. Participation in a community garden may…
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Year-round gardening: Want to garden, but don’t want to spend your life savings?
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 — and your wallet — happy. Save water One of the more costly aspects of gardening is water. Save money by…
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Year-round gardening: Want to garden, but don’t want to spend your life savings?
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 — and your wallet — happy. Save water One of the more costly aspects of gardening is water. Save money by…
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Year-round gardening: Get busy in May’s garden
“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 still put a pep in the step of Colorado gardeners. It’s finally time to get busy! Early May • Mugo…
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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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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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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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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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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…