Mushrooms are a lot like icebergs. What you see is just a tiny part of what is going on below the surface. The mushrooms sprouting up in your lawn are just the tip of fungi that live deep under the soil and help decompose buried organic material. A lot of times they pop up where a tree used to be, …
Ask A Gardener – Repelling Deer
Wednesday June 21, 2017
Oh deer! High Country gardeners are locked in a never-ending battle against the deer, elk and other woodland critters who like to make a meal of your favorite plants. As you know, there is unfortunately on such thing as a “deer proof” plant. “Deer resistant” plants are those that are generally not eaten by wildlife. They tend to be things …
Ask A Gardener – Bindweed
Saturday June 17, 2017
Yikes! Just the word “Bindweed” will make many Front Range gardeners break out in cold sweats. Bindweed is so tough to eliminate because of its extensive root system and vine-y growing habit. Pre-emergents usually aren’t very effective and neither is hand pulling. Because of this, usually the best way to eliminate bindweed is repeated, judicious applications of systemic herbicides to …
Belgian Giant “Fee-Fi-Foo-YUM!”
Wednesday June 7, 2017
Heirloom Indeterminate 88 days to maturity 24 oz If you’re going to go big, go really big. Belgian Giant produces huge tomatoes, averaging over a pound! In our 2016 Tomato and Pepper Trials, we found Belgian Giants to be the largest heirlooms by far. In fact, the winner of the Largest Tomato Contest that year was a Belgian Giant. These …