Welcome to our Education Issue. Inside you’ll find an extensive list of classes, lectures, workshops, conferences, symposiums, and a few plant sales that occur in late winter and early spring. Along the Front Range we are fortunate to have landscape symposiums and workshops of all kinds with terrific speakers and presentations during the two weeks [...]
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Editor’s Letter – Harvest 2009 What a summer to support the resurgence in home gardening! Though my heart goes out to all of you whose gardens were minced by hail, the moisture we’ve received has made it easy to establish trees, shrubs, and gardens of all kinds this year. The cool wet weather delayed the [...]
Editor’s Letter After a warm and typically dry winter, our cool wet spring continues. Where I live the hay is high already while, despite irrigation, last summer’s yields were sparse. A local old time grower attributes this to the lack of lightning storms last year. He says that without electricity in the air the crops [...]
Editor’s Letter – May 2009 It’s easy to worry about drought during an especially warm, windy winter, but dry Front Range winters are typical, with March and April usually bringing us more snow than any other month. This year was no exception. Thankfully, the reservoirs are now full and the ground has been refreshed by [...]
Is gardening cool again or what? There may be fewer flowers and more plants to eat judging from this second record-setting year in a row for sales at seed companies, but more people will be gardening overall. And don’t forget that flowers attract the beneficial insects and pollinators your edibles need in order to produce. [...]