Author: By Kerry Peetz Colorado Master Gardener
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Year-round gardening: It’s time to start working in the garden
“In March winter is holding back and spring is pulling forward. Something holds and something pulls inside of us too.” – Jean Hersey, American author What a deliciously cold winter we’ve had. Hopefully, March will bring us an equally delightful spring that provides rain, sunshine and perennials that have survived the winter temperatures. Here are…
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Year-Round Gardening: Work to be done as gardens come back to life
Typically, March is our snowiest month. But if you’ve lived here for awhile you will have heard our ever-popular cliche, “If you don’t like the weather now, stick around for an hour, it will change.” Local meteorologists do a pretty great job of predicting our weather about 97% of the time, that “3% curve ball…
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Year-round gardening: August to-do list for Colorado gardeners
As gardeners, we are entering a slower, more easygoing phase. There’s always something to do in the garden, but we don’t need to keep up the frenetic pace of planting-mulching-weeding that April and May demand. June’s blooms may have faded, but with proper pruning some may reappear in August. July’s heat is over, but there’s…
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Year-round gardening: Midsummer checklist for Colorado gardeners
”Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August.” — Jenny Han July is usually Colorado’s hottest month. Many gardening activities will become maintaining, weeding, even harvesting. • Gardeners can still direct seed zinnias in early July. They prefer the ground warm before emerging. They are wonderful annuals with fresh blooms that…