This week’s photo is for the outdoorsmen who read this column. Imagine eight men on a houseboat last week, 75 miles up Lake Powell fishing the San Juan arm of the lake, and you’ll have the setting for our experience.…
Read MoreOur days really feel just like autumn should. Cool nights, bright days, and moist soils are the highlights of every gardener’s end of summer. Now through the end of October is the ideal planting season. If ‘struggle’ is descriptive of…
Read MoreFall is definitely in the air. Rains with cooler nights have produced the ideal crop of Autumn Joy Sedum. This knee-high plant is simply the perfect perennial. Rich rosy-pink flowers that adorn sturdy succulent stems age to copper red providing…
Read MoreWe can expect afternoon rains and increased humidity through October, giving us about two full months before the first hard freeze. We have plenty of growing season left so let me share a simple way to maximize plant growth and…
Read MoreIt is cool enough now that our gardens should shift from summer flowering plants that bloom only until Halloween to the fall varieties that will continue their bloom well past Thanksgiving. Fortunately, the first of the fall flowers were harvested…
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