Cold snaps and Colorado dirt dates
Despite that final feeling that always invades when I pull the last tomatoes in, the fat lady never really sings for a garden. Or rather, she sings, but then the soundtrack sort of plays in the...
View ArticleMy sister’s roses (and more free garden books)
I’m back after a week with a sudden road trip to Tucson, Ariz., to see my big sister through major abdominal surgery. The storm that blew in from California took her DSL line out with it, and so I...
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A run for the rosebushes in Greeley, Colorado
Why is Kathy Egan of Greeley winning the book “Right Rose, Right Place?” Because she really needs it. A few years ago, she bought a house with 27 — count ‘em, 27 rosebushes. Here’s a photo of just a...
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Tomato fantasies and garden-book winners
Are tomatoes even conceivable in this weather? I don’t know about you, but this is the longest, darkest, coldest Colorado winter I remember. This is Iowa winter, Minnesota winter. I know we shouldn’t...
View ArticleHey sister, soil sister, go sister
On rather the spur of the moment, I was asked to do a story on starting seeds indoors. And so, I warbled on, as my friends know that I’m able to do, trying to help novice seed-starters avoid the most...
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Gardening as marathon
Lettuce to the second power The score, after a marathon gardening weekend: 27 hours with my hands in the dirt — shoveling, planting, weeding, volunteering, writing about it, talking about it. 15...
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Weekend recipes: Tomato time!
[media-credit name="Elana Jefferson" align="alignleft" width="150"][/media-credit] NatureSweet Tomatoes brings its Homegrown Tomato Challenge back to Colorado this weekend. The contest for passionate...
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Finally tomato time in Colorado
Red tomatoes are seen in a garden in New Market, Va., in this Aug. 12, 2006 photo. (Dean Fosdick, The Associated Press) It’s that time of summer. A time when the heat beats on the back of your neck and...
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When gardening steals your mind
The voice on the phone was husky and full of humor. “Oh,” it purred, “We’ve got you, haven’t we?” And that was my initiation into full-on vegetable obsession. [media-credit name="Susan Clotfelter, The...
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A day in the garden, in the mountains
iPhone movie: Colorado Aspen Tree Since there’s snow coming to Colorado’s mountains now, I’m especially grateful that I got up to Estes Park last Friday to see some things in the gorgeous, golden...
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