How to Transplant your Veggie Starts
Avoiding Plant Transplant Trauma by Sandy Swegel You’ve done all the work of getting little seedlings started. Maybe you’ve already hardened them off. Now, planting them in your garden has a few tricks that can make a big difference in how many vegetables you get to eat. “Breakfast-Lunch-Dinner” was one of the things I learned […]
Two Secrets to Great Compost!
Composting Tips by Sandy Swegel How to make bad compost: You need the right proportions of greens and browns to get the metabolic process going. Too much brown and nothing happens. Too much green and you either get slime or the greens just turn brown. You need the right amount of water. Too little water […]
Heads up . . . Danger
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 […]