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Weather
Tracking trends in weather and how it affects the garden
Late Spring in the Bee’s Digs
A combination of blue linum and purple sage takes front stage in Late Spring. The bees love the sage which will taper off just as the many echinacea begin to bloom. The spring weather so far in 2016 has been light rain alternating with sunny days in the 60s to 70s. No additional irrigation […]
A November Harvest – Brussel Sprouts
Today I harvested the first of my brussel sprouts in November. And not the beginning of November, but the 30th! These plants were planted the second week of June and have been in the ground for over 145 days. I looked often in September and October but the sprouts remained only about a 1/2″ in […]
The seedlings are ready, now where’s the garden?
Well I have an excuse, it snowed! Then it cleared. Then it snowed! Then it cleared. Our last snow fall was May 1. We got 7.5″ on April 23rd, and some a few days before that and even more before that. No fruit trees are flowering this year due to the late freeze and my […]
Seed Sowing Calendar
When to plant vegetable gardens is determined by the soil temperature a seed needs to germinate as well as its ability to withstand frost. Most common vegetables we eat do not fare well against frost. For Colorado, a safe time to plant is at the end of the second week of May, around Mother’s day. […]
Early June Hail storm
Sorry neighbors, planting my vegetable garden brought bad luck. Not even a week after the garden was planted we had a terrible, long, midnight thunderstorm. The size of hail was small but the duration of the storm ensured not a single plant went unscathed. Most all seedlings were destroyed. I will leave them out to […]
Its getting hot out there!
As a native Coloradan I’m rarely surprised in spring to see a very warm sunny day only to be followed by a heavy snow. But this year has been the strangest of all years I can remember. I posted in January commenting how spring like it was and how nice it was to have a […]
A warmer zone map
The new plant hardiness zone map for Colorado has come out from the USDA. As we all know, its warmer here in Colorado during the winter, and the maps are finally catching up. As you can see a good part of the Denver area is now in zone 6a a step warmer than the zone […]
Spring in January?
There is nothing like a warm day in January to awake the gardening bug. Colorado has had another one of those strange winters where the cold snap in January is non-existent and our mountain snow pack is ensuring water restrictions come summer. But what a lovely 60+ degree day to head out and do some […]
Winter has arrived
Goodbye Colorado Indian summer, hello winter! This fall has been so mild I was beginning to wonder if winter had any plans on showing up this year. This week we’ve seen 8″ or more in a few storms here in Colorado. I caught this guy at our feeder, he scurried up the tree, but not […]