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Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Time to Limb up for Spring! Proper Tree Pruning by M J Lechner

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Early spring, before bud burst, is the perfect time to assess any small trees on your property.  A couple of things to think about as you w...
Monday, March 29, 2010

Colorado Cactus and Succlent Society's Show and Plant Sale by Dusty M

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Specialized plant groups can be valuable resources to gardeners who want to explore subdivisions of the gardening world. Here in Colorado th...
Monday, March 22, 2010

Pruning Fruit Trees

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Carol O'Meara, CSU Extension agent from Boulder explains fruit tree pruning in these excellent articles. Pruning fruit trees, part 1: ...
Thursday, March 11, 2010

Home and Garden Show Provides a Wealth of Information by Heirloom Fan

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If you have never attended one of the Home and Garden shows, you must give yourself a treat next year and plan to attend. The garden display...
Friday, March 5, 2010

Building a Straw Bale Greenhouse: Phase 5 by Gardener Cumax

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After the roof and side walls were up, we got snow again. I put my remote thermometer out in the greenhouse and it was no warmer than the ou...
Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Building a Straw Bale Greenhouse: Phase 4 by Gardener Cumax

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Before I could even do the work I had to treat the lumber. Monday found me at Natural Interiors on Wadsworth purchasing a gallon of linseed ...
Monday, March 1, 2010

Building a Straw Bale Greenhouse: Phase 3 by Gardener Cumax

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Editor’s Note: In September, 2009, Peter Bockenthien (aka Gardener Cumax) began construction of a straw bale greenhouse and shared his ini...
Saturday, February 27, 2010

True Cost of Colony Collapse Disorder to Beekeepers

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  Here's an interesting article on the monetary cost of colony collapse disorder to the nation's bee keepers.  It is enormous! c...
Thursday, February 25, 2010

Starting Plants Indoors From Seed

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 Yes, dear gardener, it is FINALLY time to start thinking about starting your plants from seed.  Here's a great article with lots of goo...
Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Prison Gardens a Growing Trend

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Nelson Mandela may have started it all when he was in prison—"A garden is one of the few things in prison that one could control,"...
Monday, February 15, 2010

Are You Unknowingly Harboring a Noxious Weed in Your Garden? by Donna Duffy

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It’s easy to get hooked on flowers that are easy to grow, especially those that seem to be refreshingly trouble-free. Unfortunately, some of...
Monday, February 8, 2010

The end of the squashy tomato?

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 Dear gardener, scientists in Britain  have created a fruit which is said to stay fresh for 45 days  -  three times longer than the conventi...