The Dirt
What’s Wrong with this Leaf?
Identify What’s Wrong With Your Plants by Sandy Swegel What do you do when one of your plants suddenly starts looking like it’s sick. I mentally go through a list of things I’ve seen before. Is it powdery mildew? Is that grasshopper damage? If the plant is next door to a yard that doesn’t have […]
Is Gardening work or play?
How To Garden Wisely by Sandy Swegel I had to laugh this week when reader Mike Hood commented earlier on one of our sweet inspiring quotes about the virtues of gardening that “Gardening is a Battle.” Now maybe Mike was just trolling, but I am all too familiar with the feeling that gardening is […]
More Wildflowers
All About Wildflowers by Sandy Swegel The fields and meadows of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado are awash in wildflowers this year. Lots of moisture in the Fall and Spring has turned our mountains into riots of color that started early and keeps going and going. We, gardeners, keep playing hooky from our weeding tasks to hike along mountain […]