Editor’s Letter: Harvest 2022
If you’ve been wanting to tear out your lawn and replace it with water-wise landscaping, the time has come. You already know about our...
Colorado Gardener Articles
Read our articles from our Colorado Gardening Issues below.
- Apr 13
Editor's Letter: Spring 2022
Building a garden over time is one of the pleasures of this earth. We add new plants each year while others proliferate on their own....
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- Aug 26, 2021
Editor's Letter: Harvest 2021
I’m not sure why people assume that it’s difficult to find content for a magazine like this. If anything I have the opposite problem....
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- May 7, 2021
Editor's Letter: Late Spring 2021
Our Late Spring issue covers a particularly wide range of topics, from a simple individual science project sparked at a community garden...
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- Mar 26, 2021
Editor's Letter: Spring 2021
This spring really does feel like a new beginning. For one thing, with two feet of wet snow outside, what had been shaping up as an...
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- Oct 1, 2020
Editor's Letter: Harvest 2020
It was easy to practice social distancing and enjoy myself at Gail Felzien’s family ranch/farm outside of Sterling last month, even in...
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- May 1, 2020
Editor's Letter: May 2020
With this quarantine a lot of us suddenly have time on our hands and no place to go. That’s a really big shift. Welcome to plant...
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- Mar 31, 2020
Editor's Letter: April 2020
March 23 Two weeks after I wrote the letter below, everything has changed. One by one the states where my sisters (and friends) live have...
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- Oct 1, 2019
Editor's Letter: Harvest 2019
At Northern Water’s Annual Water Symposium in late May I had the opportunity to hear and meet Kate Greenberg, Colorado’s new Commissioner...
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- Apr 30, 2019
Editor's Letter: May 2019
Ah, Spring. So far it’s a cool, moist, forgiving season. Even better, I now have a schedule that lets me spend time in the garden when it...
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- Mar 31, 2019
Editor's Letter: April 2019
Here’s what you’ll find inside the issue. Entomologist Eric R Eaton tells you about human inventions - everything from paper to GPS...
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- Oct 1, 2018
Editor's Letter: Harvest 2018
I really love my job. Still, after 21 years as editor/publisher I‘m yearning to cut back. Those four spring deadlines are tough. As a...
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- Aug 31, 2018
Editor's Letter: Education Issue 2018
Our Cover Hellebores are early bloomers in Colorado gardens. My dark red ones start in February and continue for months, while the...
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- Jun 1, 2018
Editor's Letter: June 2018
In this issue we feature several plant and plant family profiles. Amaranth, on our cover, is a nutritional powerhouse grain alternative....
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- May 1, 2018
Editor's Letter: May 2018
It’s a great feeling when the May issue goes to press. The veggies are coming up, and the tulips and daffodils are still cheerful and...
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- Apr 1, 2018
Editor's Letter: April 2018
It’s always a little frustrating to be gardening virtually and vicariously instead of getting my hands in the dirt this time of year. But...
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- Aug 31, 2017
Editor's Letter: Harvest 2017
It’s time to reap the harvest in the veggie garden. Even my scaled back garden is cranking out way more food than we can eat. My sister...
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- Aug 1, 2017
Editor's Letter: Education Issue 2017
This year marks Colorado Gardener’s 20th anniversary. We’ve published over 100 issues for our semi-arid climate with a focus on beauty,...
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- May 31, 2017
Editor's Letter: Summer 2017
There will be no more offhand pronouncements from me about the weather. After my comments last month – “Spring came early this year… dry...
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- Apr 30, 2017
Editor's Letter: May 2017
Spring came early this year. And even though the last average spring frost date is in early to mid May for most of the Front Range, it’s...
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