Tag: home and garden
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Year-Round Gardening: Should you opt for deadheading or reseeding?
Now that so many plants are blooming, gardeners have a decision to make: Should you remove (deadhead) the spent blooms on your perennial flowers, or should you let your flowers set seed so they will self-sow? Some perennials are short-lived and depend on reseeding for their continued survival. Some longer-lived perennials also reseed readily. Dealing…
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Colorado Springs area home and garden events starting July 17
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save SATURDAY-SUNDAY Colorado Springs Garden Tour: A Midsummer Stroll — To support Colorado Springs University Extension in El Paso County, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., $25, free for ages 11 and younger. Tickets required: extensionfriends.org. JULY 28 High…
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Colorado Springs area home and garden events starting July 17
SATURDAY-SUNDAY Colorado Springs Garden Tour: A Midsummer Stroll — To support Colorado Springs University Extension in El Paso County, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., $25, free for ages 11 and younger. Tickets required: extensionfriends.org. JULY 28 High and Dry: Drought Tolerant Plants for the Pikes Peak Region — 10-11 a.m., Phelan Gardens, 4955 Austin Bluffs Parkway, $10.…
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Around the House: How to remedy a stinky garbage disposal
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save High temperatures encourage accelerated growth of bacteria in garbage disposals. It’s usually the parts not easily accessed — like the rubber splash guard and the top of the disposal chamber —that accumulate food particles. There are two good tools for this cleaning operation: a round…
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Year-Round Gardening: Eradicate poison hemlock from your landscape
The name — poison hemlock — says it all. This highly toxic plant is growing wild in El Paso County. It is included in the Colorado Noxious Weed list as a List C plant. A noxious weed is a non-native plant that is designated by the Colorado Department of Agriculture as a plant that is…
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Around the House: How to remedy a stinky garbage disposal
High temperatures encourage accelerated growth of bacteria in garbage disposals. It’s usually the parts not easily accessed — like the rubber splash guard and the top of the disposal chamber —that accumulate food particles. There are two good tools for this cleaning operation: a round toilet bowl brush and a toothbrush. Saturate the toilet brush…
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Colorado Springs area home and garden events starting July 10
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save WEDNESDAY Tomato Troubles webinar — Hosted by CSU Extension El Paso County, noon-1 p.m., $10. Registration required: epcextension.eventbrite.com. THURSDAY El Paso County Fair Open Class Horticulture Competition — All fruits, vegetables, herbs, flowers and potted…
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Colorado Springs area home and garden events starting July 10
WEDNESDAY Tomato Troubles webinar — Hosted by CSU Extension El Paso County, noon-1 p.m., $10. Registration required: epcextension.eventbrite.com. THURSDAY El Paso County Fair Open Class Horticulture Competition — All fruits, vegetables, herbs, flowers and potted plants are restricted to those grown by exhibitors. Items can be grown at any location in Colorado. Go online for…
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LIFE | Gather Mountain Blooms Flower Farm
Sisters Leah Remacle, Nikki McComsey, and Abby Remacle are the force behind the Gather Mountain Blooms flower farm. The three sisters began growing around 70 different types of flowers at Venetucci Farm in Fountain beginning in January. (Video by Skyler Ballard)
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Around the House: Solving one stinky situation in the bathroom
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Dear Ken: We can’t get our bathroom lavatories to stop smelling. We’ve tried Liquid-Plumr, baking soda and vinegar, even bleach. Can you help? — Roger Answer: Did you remember the overflow? That’s the hole in the front of the sink that drains water if you…