If you want to upgrade your chances of success, here are a few tips: PICK YOUR SPOT Before you harvest When you do harvest, gently brush off dirt and snip tops to 1/2". Harvest winter squash before the first, hard frost.

Many tomatoes grown for grocery store sales are harvested from grafted, greenhouse-grown plants.

landscape restoration of native plant communities on the reservation through planting and traditional harvest

Before Patti O’Neal cracked the code on growing flawless carrots, she harvested a few funny-looking roots Vegetable gardeners can take heart knowing they can do everything right and still harvest some oddball

in intensive market gardening including soil health, planting, irrigation, weed and pest management, harvesting Students from Kemper Elementary in Cortez visited Washington DC to help Michelle Obama plant and harvest They returned to DC in June 2016 to help with her final harvest and cook the bounty alongside her.

Grasshoppers immediately devour everything I plant, saving me time on future chores like weeding, watering, harvesting

Fewer people know that one third of the crops we blithely harvest from our local King Soopers wouldn’ July 6 of this year ScienceDaily reported on the work of Canadian scientists at York University who harvested

There is a nice article by Kenton Seth that you might want to check out in our Harvest 2021 Issue on the in-progress guide to buying bee safe plants on the Front Range on our website, added after the Harvest

There are a lot of rules for keeping vegetables through the winter, and we’ll cover them in the Harvest In general, long keepers are planted and harvested later, so you still have time to get some in for this Others mentioned for extended shelf life are the late-harvester Long Season, the bolt-resistant Boltardy

decided to continue publishing, but two print issues instead of three: SPRING in mid to late April and HARVEST

wanting to procure the highest quality essential oils, and crafters interested in getting a better harvest Harvest stems and buds before the flowers open for craft and culinary use.

As summer flowers senesce, keep an eye out for the right time to harvest seed.

fcgov.com/gardens/noco-urban-homestead-tour We’re starting to work on our Harvest issue that will come

buying 60-75 different varieties of fresh medicinal herbs that needed to be shipped within 24 hours of harvesting

We grow and harvest (extract) and then remove our old withered plants once they are done producing (extract

Our Harvest issue will come out in the 3rd week of August.

say grapes need ample water, at least for the first several years, except during the 3 weeks prior to harvest

Massa­chusetts, Frank and his whole family, including five brothers and two sisters, spent their summers harvesting

Dwarf North Star Cherry By the time the North Star is ready to harvest a couple of weeks later the birds

James Wieser wrote, “Mushrooms are Nature’s Farmers” in our Harvest 2015 issue. groups and individuals on harnessing the power of fungi to break down waste material using edible, harvestable He has the largest native culture library (97 species of mushrooms) at the Center for Experimental and We publish our Harvest issue toward the end of August.

I gave her the choice of when to harvest radishes and peppers.

Our Harvest Issue comes out in late August. Until then, Spring! Then Summer.

you haven’t had them for a while and forget about this, and then make a big pot of borscht from the harvest

Surely I could reap much bigger harvests with more effort to learn their needs and more attention throughout

. • The fruit of upright cultivars is easiest to harvest, while those with a low to ground, sprawling

(When harvesting leaves in spring, remove just the outer layers to ensure the plant continues to grow

Gardening Q&A By Keith Funk Q: What vegetables are good choices for a fall harvest and when should they

The whole plant is medicinally useful, but if you harvest and dry the aerial parts for tea, the plant

The Harvest season of magic and mystery is a perfect time to incorporate plants into your spiritual well

you about growing the plant in Loveland for its nutritious greens, and occasionally also reaping a harvest

Another trick I use is to harvest duff—that finely textured debris that accumulates under bushes—and

Root crops (carrots, beets, potatoes) over-winter well under mulch for harvest through winter. Spinach will go dormant and grow again in spring for harvest.

Kenton Seth proposes that Xeriscape and Rainwater Harvesting get married.

Why gripe about the cost of plants at a nursery that propagates and sells some of the rarest, choice If they make a mistake in harvest it may just mean they are fortunate enough not to have a corporate

Check the seed packages for “days to harvest”. Count backwards from a desired harvest date such as October 15 and you’ll know your sow date.

Parmenter, an expert on sowing and growing greens, covers all you need to know about creating, growing, and harvesting

called out by a couple of prominent women in the Colorado gardening community for my comments in the Harvest

when there are no living plants to continue making sugars for them, nitrogen that is not captured (harvested

Certainly, many animals manage to harvest some of the cactus’ water-rich, seed-packed, red fruits and

Planting & Cultivation Piñons are the hardiest, most xeric and heat tolerant pine in our landscapes. These pines have vigorous root systems that allow them to stay alive in the harshest of conditions; they

Piñon Pines and their Dwarf Selections by Kirk Fiesler Piñons are the hardiest, most xeric and heat

Weeds are often hardest to control in a new garden.

I’ve enjoyed and benefitted from being a member of plant societies and gardening groups over the years and I recommend it to others. Most plant enthusiasts are knowledgeable, unassuming, and generous in my experience. Though I’m not among the most active members I try to get to some talks, annual conferences, and garden tours each year. I had a great time at the national conference of the North American Rock Garden Society in Steamboat Springs this year. The Colorado chapter is one the biggest; our state is a rock gardening mecca. All the people who put the conference together really knocked themselves out, especially Mike Kintgen from Denver Botanic Gardens. We hiked all around the area during peak wildflower season, saw and heard inspired presentations by top plant people from Patagonia and Sweden, among other places. We visited the beautiful Yampa Valley Botanic Gardens in Steamboat, the Betty Ford Alpine Gardens in Vail, and Mike Kintgen’s private garden near Steamboat. I missed the add-on field trip to Wyoming but heard it was awesome. It only costs $15/year to join this organization. Visiting Jim (& Dorothy) Borland’s Denver garden full of natives and unusual plants (ever hear of squirting cucumber vine?) was a special treat this year, part of the Colorado Native Plant Society Tour. I hadn’t been to their garden for quite a while, though they are gracious enough to be included in a number of tours. If you have an opportunity to see this garden, don’t pass it up! Joining CONPS is a great way to learn about Rocky Mountain plants and this year is their 40th, to be celebrated at their annual conference in September in Boulder, so now is a perfect time to become a member. There are several Urban Homestead Tours each year for all you vegetable-growing food-producers out there. I was curious to visit the Dirkse sisters’ Loveland homestead since Jacki Hein wrote a story about them for this issue. They were on the NOCO Urban Homestead Tour and their garden – and the tour – didn’t disappoint. It was remarkable to see all they have planted, constructed, accomplished in two short years. Nearly self-sufficient, they pack in a tremendous number of vegetable plants by growing vertically on trellises. Other features in this issue include Paula Ogilvie on the botany of fruit and natural science writer Gary Raham on phytobiomes. The definition is too long to include here but it represents a shift to a more holistic approach to botany. Marcia Tatroe writes about ornamental alliums and a few edible ones. All are bee magnets and easy bulbs to plant in the fall or, unlike other bulbs, at other times of the year. This has been a hard couple of years for trees along the Front Range. Our local municipality is giving away mulch and woodchips for free indefinitely since homeowners have dropped off so many dead and damaged tree limbs. Mikl Brawner tells you how to best support trees in Colorado. Only three – cottonwood, willow, and box elder – are native to the plains and they grow along streams and creeks. Our urban canopies have all been planted and many struggle in our semi-arid climate. James Wieser follows up on previous articles in CG, telling you about the fall and winter mushroom season in this issue. And entomologist Eric R. Eaton discusses the insects that try to find a cozy home inside for the winter like the rest of us. Almost all are an annoying nuisance at worst so no need to get too worked up about them. Fall is seed-saving season in the garden or, as Penn Parmenter puts it, Free Seed Store! She offers lots of practical tips for collecting, cleaning, and drying your bounty. Don’t overlook Kelly Grummons’ always helpful Q & A on p. 14, next to our Marketplace section. Special thanks to our Art Director, Lise Neer, who managed to layout this issue during campground stops on a cross-country bicycle ride, “Sea to Sea.” The trip is a high-visibility project intended to advocate for brain injury and stroke awareness. She and the other undaunted participants arrive in Boston in early September. To learn more: spokesfightingstrokes.org We’ll publish again in early February 2017, which marks our 20th Anniversary. Enjoy the fall and do a rain dance; it’s crispy out there. Jane Shellenberger

James Wieser wrote, “Mushrooms are Nature’s Farmers” in our Harvest 2015 issue. groups and individuals on harnessing the power of fungi to break down waste material using edible, harvestable He has the largest native culture library (97 species of mushrooms) at the Center for Experimental and We publish our Harvest issue toward the end of August.