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Monday, August 19, 2013

Harvesting Fall Squash By Joyce D’Agostino

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Photo by Joyce D'Agostino It goes without saying that Colorado gardeners find that squash is one of the easiest garden vegetables ...
Friday, August 16, 2013

Be Careful with Insecticides in Your Garden by Cynthia Cox

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Bumble Bee photo courtesy Whitney Cranshaw You think your flowers are getting buggy, so out comes the insecticide. Beware, you may be ha...
Tuesday, August 13, 2013

Impatiens Downy Mildew; New Disease to Colorado by Mary Small

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Photo courtesy Purdue.edu   Two Plant Diagnostic Clinics in Colorado have recently received samples of impatiens downy mildew. This was...
Sunday, August 11, 2013

Best Garden Tool! by Donna Duffy

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When I retired several years ago, a fellow gardener gave me a Hori Hori knife as a retirement gift. It’s one of the best gifts I’ve ev...
Monday, August 5, 2013

The Aster Yellows Blues by Carol King

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My latest indignity in the garden, (does it never end) is what appears to be a case of aster yellows in a cone flower, Echinacea purpurea ....
Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Herbicide Carry-over Damage by Mary Small

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Damage on Ash leaves at the Jeffco Fairgrounds When I worked in an extension office in another state, a few gardeners reported ...
Sunday, July 28, 2013

Fresh Summer Pesto By Chef Elizabeth Buckingham

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Basil Photo by Elizabeth Buckingham The current abundance of basil (even in our painfully dry climate!) makes fresh pesto a quintessen...
Thursday, July 25, 2013

Ascochyta in the Lawn: A Fungus Among Us by Cynthia Cox

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Ascochyta Leaf Blight in Lawn.  Photo CSU Extension Does your lawn have dry brown spots and look like it is dying? Many lawns a...
Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Iron Chlorosis by Mary Small

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Do your plants have “the yellows”? I’m referring to the sickly yellow-green or bright yellow leaf color that plants sometimes develop. The p...
Sunday, July 7, 2013

Keep Those Summer Blooms Coming! by Carol King and Donna Duffy

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Late June and early July are rewarding times in the garden. The results of all the hard labor in the spring are beginning to be evident: ...
Wednesday, June 26, 2013

Cool Garden Apps by Sheilia Canada

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Spring is settling in here in the Denver-Metro area. I know that I am encountering a lot of clients that are trying a vegetabl...
Sunday, June 23, 2013

Aphids by Bernadette Costa

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Aphids on Leaf Aphids are very common.  Sometimes called plant lice, they are small, soft-bodied, pear-shaped insects, generally less th...