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Native Metallic Green Sweat Bee

June 23, 2016/0 Comments/in Bees, Beneficial Insects, Gardening with Kids, Pollinators/by Mike Wade

AGAPOSTEMON: METALLIC GREEN SWEAT BEE by Jessica of TheBeesWaggle.com The green sweat bee is a beautiful native bee that comes out to pollinate from spring to fall. These beauties typically nest underground in tunnels, which are sometimes adjacent to many other sweat bee nests. They will sometimes even share an entrance into many diverging nesting […]

Pollinators Support Biodiversity

June 22, 2016/0 Comments/in Bees, Beneficial Insects, Butterflies, Gardening Philosophies, Honey Bees, Nature, Organic Gardening, Pesticides, Planting, Pollinators/by Mike Wade

Importance of Pollinators by Jessica of The Bees Waggle Biodiversity is the variety of life. It showcases the relationships between all life forms on Earth. It is the web of life, connecting all life on Earth in an interdependent web of function, purpose, and necessity. It can be a protective mechanism against catastrophic failure of […]

Lives of Solitary Bees

June 21, 2016/0 Comments/in Bees, Beneficial Insects, Honey Bees/by Mike Wade

Lives of Solitary Bees by The Bees Waggle Do solitary bees such as Mason Bees and Leafcutter Bees live through the winter? Well, to put it simply, no. The mason and leafcutter bees you have seen flying from flower to flower and back to their nesting holes will die off, and the egg cells they […]

Mexican Hat Plant … Ole’

April 25, 2016/0 Comments/in Bees, Drought Tolerant, Gardening Tips, Gardening Tips for Mid-Summer, Honey Bees, Nature, Planting, Pollinators, Wildflowers/by Mike Wade

Wildflower Seeds by Sandy Swegel What’s your favorite wildflower? When I ask that of people in Colorado, I often get answers like Columbine, a delightful airy flower found in the mountains. But when I go into people’s gardens and see what they actually grow, I often find the wonderful yellow and red Ratiba columnifera that some […]

Growing Tulips

April 22, 2016/0 Comments/in Garden Maintenance, Gardening Tips, Nature, Planting, Transplanting/by Mike Wade

Three Myths about Growing Tulips by Sandy Swegel We are having a beautiful tulip year despite heavy snows. Trees broke in half, but the tulip stems were just short enough when it snowed that they didn’t break. Walking around the neighborhood in wonder at tulips under broken trees, I thought about how sturdy tulips really […]

How To Deal with Troublesome Pests In Container Gardens

April 20, 2016/1 Comment/in Beneficial Insects, Botanical Soaps, Garden Maintenance, Garden Problems, Gardening Tips, Gardening Tips for Mid-Summer, Integrated Pest Management, Organic Gardening, Pesticides, Vegetable Gardens/by Mike Wade

Grow your own Thyme Plugs

April 4, 2016/0 Comments/in Cover Crops, Garden Inspiration, Gardening Tips, Perennials, Propagating, Seed Starting/by Mike Wade

Certified Organic Seeds by Sandy Swegel One of the more intrigue new seeds we are carrying is Creeping Thyme. We all love the romantic look of a stone path with thyme filling in the crevices between the stone. Thyme lawns have also become popular as a low-water way to have a patch of green. You […]

Kelp: A Gardener’s Best Friend

March 18, 2016/1 Comment/in Beneficial Insects, Botanical Soaps, Garden Maintenance, Garden Problems, Gardening Tips, Gardening Tips for Mid-Summer, Heirloom Vegetables, Lettuces & Greens, Organic Gardening, Soil Nutrients, Tomatoes, Vegetable Gardens, Watering/by Mike Wade

Why to Use Kelp in Your Garden by Sandy Swegel Our local garden club invited a rose expert from Jackson and Perkins to give us some winter inspiration this week. Rose growers are like tomato growers….they have their own little secrets and rituals to make their roses the best and the biggest. Our expert showed […]

Why You HAVE to Grow Watermelon Radishes this Year

March 7, 2016/2 Comments/in Garden Inspiration, Gardening Tips, Heirloom Vegetables, Seed Starting, Vegetable Gardens/by Mike Wade

Heirloom Vegetable Seeds Words barely do the watermelon radish justice. Virant. Brilliant fuchsia. Magic. We just started carrying the watermelon radish seed this year and it is one of the first seed packets I snagged this Spring. I’m not a big radish eater although I like them eaten raw with breakfast eggs as is common […]

Jumpstart your Lettuce Garden

February 26, 2016/0 Comments/in Garden Maintenance, Gardening Tips, Heirloom Vegetables, Kale, Lettuces & Greens, Planting, Propagating, Seed Germination, Seed Starting, Seeds, Transplanting, Vegetable Gardens/by Mike Wade

Heirloom Vegetable Seeds Our new tricolor blend of romaine lettuces has me itching to get my salad garden started. I like Romaines because they are especially nutritious, comparable to kale. And I like this blend because it’s shiny and colorful. There’s a lovely gloss to the colorful Romaines that looks beautiful in the garden and […]