Colorado Gardener Articles

It’s been a beautiful fall and there are plenty of leaves everywhere for the garden beds. I find there’s nothing better for building soil in veggie and perennial beds, and well as around roses and shrubs, than adding compost and leaves in the fall. Shredding the leaves, especially any thicker, leathery cottonwood leaves, helps them break down faster without matting.

Q: Over the last few years, I’ve collected a number of cacti and succulents. When I look them up online, it shows that they have gorgeous flowers. Mine never bloom. I have them in various windowsills and on tables near the window. Do they have to be older to flower? Do they need a certain kind of fertilizer?

By Penn Parmenter: “All men all the time.”  That’s what I say to people when trying to explain how I live.  Then I say, “In a tiny house – all men – all the time.” 

Fall Harvest The other day my friend Nina stopped by with some sweet corn from Munson’s in Boulder. Munson’s Farm is well known around...

By William J. Dagendesh: Harvest supply kit Children’s old backpacks and giveaway canvas tote bags make a handy harvest kit. Fill with a...

By Pam Sherman: Do you have too many zucchinis now, but not enough in winter? How can we enjoy our garden's bounty throughout the cold...

By Jennifer Bousselot: Jump start your spring vegetable season. Growing up on a small family farm I remember how the demands of the crops increase as the season progresses.

Here is a short video from Bella Cloude, an herbalist for 50 years, who sent a short video clip showing some of her favorite immune...

In the proposed "Rescission of Conservation and Landscape Health Rule" (aka The Public Lands Rule), the Feds plan to strip conservation...