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Watch Out For Hawks by Sandy Swegel It is, alas, another snow day in Colorado. May 1st brought us 12 inches of snow. We’re so happy for the moisture but very grumpy about not being able to play in the dirt. Gardeners most often have our heads close to the ground. We’re weeding or digging […]
We Aren’t The Only Ones Who Love Dandelions by Sandy Swegel I may never pull another dandelion again. Well, at least not in my yard. But it was an utter joy to learn something new about dandelions yesterday while enjoying my morning coffee and looking out the window. We’ve had a very late Spring with […]
Easy Solution for Small Garden Pests We’ve been grateful all week for pollinators of all shapes and sizes and how crucial they are for feeding us and for making a beautiful world of flowers and trees. We know you understand our first priority to help pollinators by which is to create a habitat with the plants […]
How to Control These Pests In Colorado and the high plains, pest specialists say it’s going to be a banner year for cutworms and their adult form, miller moths. Most nongardeners think miller moths are a nuisance because they fly in every open door and window on summer evenings, hovering around all your lights. Gardeners, […]
Keep Record of Your Garden There’s nothing like April 15th, Tax Day, to remind us how much we wish we kept better records. I have matching boxes of good intentions. A box of receipts thrown together from the year with barely decipherable notes that need to be turned into reliable tax deductions. And a box […]
Why You Have to Keep the Hummingbirds Fed Hummingbirds are on the move. Do you have food for them? Fill your hummingbird feeders! I learned a new thing about hummingbirds this week. If you had a happy home for them last year with food and water, it is quite likely the very same birds will […]
Plant A Tree. “Only caring individuals can restore the places we inhabit. The ‘simple act of planting a tree’ not only restores the places we live, but makes us whole and powerful again.”– Paul Hawken, Smith and Hawken Queen Bee Becky of BBB Seed and I were talking the other day about how many fruit […]
Our Favorite Weeding Tips by Sandy Swegel It’s Spring. Your plants are tiny and growing. Your weeds are huge and growing. If you want a nice garden, you really do have to outsmart your weeds and deal with the weeds that are gobbling up your soil nutrients and drinking your water. Weeding doesn’t have to […]
How to Quickly Handle Weeds 1. Off with their heads. Most of us spend our time nurturing seedlings….but weed seedlings are a very different species. With the first warm spells of spring, hundreds of thousands of weed seeds germinate. I sharpen my hand-held hoe (a scuffle hoe works too…any sharp edge) and one swift run along the […]
Heirloom Vegetable Seeds I’m fortunate to know lots of gardeners. They are a quiet bunch for the most part and sometimes rather eccentric. But they are on the forefront of an environmental movement that is making a big difference in our community: turning front yards into vegetable gardens! It begins as the gardener runs out […]
BBB Seed is a family-owned business specializing in the distribution of Wildflower Seeds and Native Grasses, Grass Mixes, Turf Grasses, Grass and Wildflower Mixes, Regional Wildflower Seed Mixes, and Special-Use Wildflower Mixes including our line of six great Pollinator Mixes.
