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Planting Flowers for the Bees What’s your favorite flower this year? That’s the question our local gardening magazine posed to its readers this issue. Many candidates came to mind, but I realized my criteria in Fall for a good flower is one that blooms late to feed the bees and other pollinators that are still […]
Your Garden Loves Leaf Mold! Get ready to collect some manna from heaven! Leaf mold is one of the best amendments a gardener can add to the garden. And it’s super easy to make and free: All you need is leaves and time. Create a leaf pile somewhere it won’t blow away but will get […]
Wildflower Seeds by Sandy Swegel It’s Fall in Colorado and the most colorful gardens are the shelves at the hardware store garden centers. Thousands of mums are for sale. I’m not that fond of the one-on-each-side of the front door look, but I do like to get the small 4 in and 6 in containers and […]
Adding Color to Your Garden by Sandy Swegel A friend is a marketing guru and always talks about wanting to make things “pop” whether its brochures, interior design or gardens. Fall is a great time when colors pop. We naturally think of New England with its amazing Fall display. In fact, East Coasters coming to Colorado […]
What To Start Now Thinking about the beautiful creation stories explored in the services of the eve of Rosh Hashanah that our Jewish friends celebrated yesterday reminds me that for the gardener, things are never really at an end. There’s always something new to begin in the endless cycles of life. Whether it is Rosh […]
Becoming a Stronger Tomato Grower It’s time to prune your tomatoes if you live in Zone 5 and almost time in Zone 6. Sure there are great recipes (and movies) for fried green tomatoes, but you and I both know we much prefer red tomatoes ripened by the sun. So it’s time to take your pruners out […]
Capturing the Beauty of Your Garden I’m enamored of projects you can do in 15 minutes. As my hero, Fly Lady (www.flylady.net) says, “You can do anything for 15 minutes.” She’s often referring to cleaning up or decluttering, but in my busy life, sometimes I need to schedule 15 minutes to do something artsy or […]
What To Do With Your Fallen Apples by Sandy Swegel While I continue to have a good supply of huge zucchini from the four zucchini plants my neighbor is growing, the bounty and surplus this year is from apples. Talk about a windfall. Day after day there are dozens of apples that fall on the ground […]
Saving Your Garden It’s August and hot, not the most fun time in the garden, but you’ve got to get your diseased and gnarly tomatoes out and EVICT all the diseased and dying stuff out of your garden. You’re not doing for this year’s produce…you’re doing to save your garden next year. In Colorado with […]
Keeping An Open Mind by Sandy Swegel I visited a garden yesterday tended by my friend Lou. Lou has gardened for other people for many years and the heavy shade garden I visited has lots of color despite being in shade and the fact that we’ve been in high temperature, drought conditions. As we walked around and […]
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