Category: Pests
Garden Class – Controlling Gophers, Bugs & Disease in the Gardens
03/02/2015 Ken Lain, mountain gardenerIf you let these pests gain a foothold they are nearly impossible to rid from your garden, until now. Learn all the deadly secrets to a disease-free garden this spring. This free class fills early so bring a cup of…
Read More9 Essential Tasks for March Gardeners
02/26/2015 Ken Lain, mountain gardenerThere are a couple of benefits to planting larger growing conifers before April. The first is that, knowing that garden centers stock up early for the spring planting season, informed gardeners buy early. This guarantees cream-of-the-crop selections before the general…
Read MoreA Cure for Pocket Gophers that Stops ‘em Dead
02/12/2015 Ken Lain, mountain gardenerPocket gophers really are menaces to mountain gardens. These burrowing rats live underground, destroying gardens by chomping plant roots and ruining soils by destroying worm counts and beneficial fungi. Their devastation includes decimating tree roots to the point that large…
Read More10 Things to do with Autumn Leaves
10/30/2014 Ken Lain, mountain gardenerAutumn Blaze Maple is the larger of the two red-leafed trees showing off right now, trees that are the pets of local gardeners. This is the hardiest of the shade-sized maple trees that also turn red in autumn. Think Canadian…
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