Terminal Verbosity

Take a Walk Through My Garden

admin — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 04:31:08 +0000

An out-of-state reader requested a garden tour, so I thought I’d oblige with my first v-blog!

Try Something New in the Vegetable Garden

admin — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 22:05:56 +0000

The old adage “variety is the spice of life” was never more true than in the vegetable garden. If you’ve been planting the same varieties of tomatoes, bell peppers, bush beans, and lettuce for years, it’s time to try something different. I try new varieties of the old favorites (tomatoes & peppers) just about every [...]

Hardening Off Seedlings

admin — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 21:55:46 +0000

With a month to go until Boulder County’s average last frost date, it’s time to start thinking about hardening off cool-season crops! If you have season extenders like cold frames, row covers, or Wall-o-Waters, you can even harden off a few tomatoes and peppers too. Why Harden Off? Plants are wildly adaptable, which is part [...]

Wildflowers of Early April

admin — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 15:52:04 +0000

In 2007, I began working on my Native Plant Master (NPM) certification down in Jefferson County. We were in the process of moving to Lyons, but Boulder did not yet have a NPM program, so I hoofed it down to Morrison every Saturday for a month to begin learning about native plants. Three years later [...]

Spring = peas

admin — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 21:07:51 +0000

This year I was expecting a wet and snowy March, so on a warm afternoon at the very beginning of March, I planted my peas and fava beans. Today, a full month later, the peas have finally sprouted! Unlike vegetables planted at a more hospitable time of year that fairly reliably germinate per package instructions, [...]

Peas and bulbs and phlox, oh my!

admin — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 20:25:06 +0000

Tomorrow April begins, and with it us Zone 5-ers can at least begin to expect warmer weather (I have just guaranteed, by making this statement, that we will get one more snow storm here in Colorado. Sorry!). Yesterday it hit 80 here for the first time and that warm weather following so closely on the [...]

Learning to Knit

admin — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 17:38:01 +0000

This past fall, I started knitting. Oh sure, I knitted a scarf or a pot holder or something when I was 12, but this was the first time I’d given it a go as an adult. Armed with a copy of Patons Next Steps, a pair of size 10 bamboo needles, and a couple of [...]

Weed Now, Drink Beer Later

admin — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 20:26:20 +0000

Everyone’s heard the old adage, “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” But I prefer my own slight variant when it comes to spring gardening: “Weed a little in March, sit back and drink beer in July.” That’s right. When many folks are out in the blazing sun pulling deep-rooted perennial weeds [...]

Transplanting Seedlings

admin — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 02:49:46 +0000

OK, you’ve identified how much garden space you need, chosen your veggies, planned some container gardens, started seedlings, completed all of your March garden tasks, and chosen a seed company, now you’re probably ready to transplant some of those seedlings you started! Check your seedlings and if they’re not quite big enough to transplant, be [...]

March Phat Fiber “Fluff” – The Elements

admin — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 05:22:52 +0000

My father used to tell this great story about sawing off the treadle of my grandmother’s spinning wheel as retribution for her not letting he and my uncle go out to hunt. In the end, they climbed out the window and went anyway, and I can only imagine my grandfather’s reaction when he learned what [...]