Larry Stebbins
September 21 at 1:34 PM ·
Buying planting (seed) garlic can be expensive! One bulb can cost anywhere from $4 to $8. Most bulbs will have, on average, 5 plantable cloves. So bite the bullet, buy some great garlic (and support your local independent garden center) and save some to plant next year. If you planted all your garlic back in the ground each year, in 10 years you will have about 2 million bulbs (and you would need about 33 acres of land). Here is the math:
Year 1: 1 bulb plants out 5 cloves to grow 5 bulbs
Year 2: 5 bulbs grows 25 bulbs (the following year)
Year 3: 25 bulbs grows 125 bulbs (the following year)
Year 4: 125 bulbs grows 625 bulbs (the following year)
Year 5: 625 bulbs grows 3125 bulbs (the following year)
Year 6: 3125 bulbs grows 15,625 bulbs (the following year)
Year 7: 15,625 bulbs grows 78,125 bulbs (the following year)
Year 8: 78,125 bulbs grows 390,625 bulbs (the following year)
Year 9: 390,625 bulbs will grow about 2 million bulbs in year 10
Chelsea Green Publishing
September 12 at 1:38 PM ·
Kids these days... 😂😂😂😂
It’s time to plant the garlic! Get the best selection now and get it planted by Oct 15 (if you can)! Harvest comes next July and you’ll be thanking yourself then!
Phelan Gardens
September 10 at 9:35 AM ·
Our new vampire security system is here!!! 13 varieties of Garlic are now in stock!!!!
-Inchelium Red
-Montana Giant
-Music
-Amish
-Metechi
-Russian Giant
-Transylvanian
-Georgian Fire
-German Extra Hardy
-German Red
-Pehoski Purple
-Chesnok Red
-Northern White
Denver Botanic Gardens is at Denver Botanic Gardens.
September 8 at 11:15 AM · Denver, CO ·
Here’s some much needed good news! Yesterday, in anticipation of Denver’s crazy early freeze/snow, horticulturist Jenny Miller and volunteers harvested hundreds of beautiful dahlias to share with three senior living facilities. The weather would have zapped the tender blooms, but now they can bring joy to many seniors and care staff this week! #goodnews #dahlia 📷: Jenny Miller
[image description: four volunteers wearing blue shirts hold buckets of colorful cut dahlias. The Science Pyramid is in the background.]
At first, the article seems "dated", but turns out to be a fun read...
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/07/world/middleeast/israel-judean-dates-agriculture.html?referringSource=articleShare
NYTIMES.COM
Aided by Modern Ingenuity, a Taste of Ancient Judean Dates
This season will have a slight winter interruption- hunker in fellow gardeners- “git r dun”!
Community Partnership Family Resource Center
October 11 at 11:38 AM ·
🎃A few of our favorite pumpkin patches are open this season 🎃
Colorado Pumpkin Patch in Monument, CO
Happy Apple Farm in Penrose, CO
Long Neck Pumpkin Farm in Colorado Springs, CO
Harvest Days in Pueblo, CO
Western Museum of Mining & Industry in Colorado Springs, CO
Wishing Star Farm in Ellicott, CO
#CPFRC #StrongerTogether #GiveBack
2020 has shown us plenty,
we’re having fun plannin’ for 2021👩🌾
You can't harvest GARLIC if you don't plant GARLIC!! Now's the time! Let's plant some fun for 2021!
(This video was created last year and we had a good yield this year!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gutfUMSc2uA&t=3s
YOUTUBE.COM
Garlic
Let’s say you don’t have a yard and no perennials to split... go after the house plants!! Here’s a spider plant going under the knife. A lot of plants have crown growth that can be divided- use your eyes and intuition to find natural breaking points and go for it (but don’t get greedy)! Repot using fresh potting soil into a pot that proportionately fits 🙂. The baby spiders can root in your favorite small vase or shot glass!
If we carried trees and shrubs, this one would be mandatory...
PlantSelect
October 22 at 6:47 AM ·
The variety of color on PAWNEE BUTTES® Sand Cherry in autumn! Prunus besseyi 'P011S' is a graceful, ground covering form of native sand cherry. Fragrant, white flowers in April produce heavy crops of black cherries in summer that are attractive to wildlife.
#plantselect #pawneebuttes #sandcherry #prunusbesseyi #plantsomething #resilient #savewater #nativeplants
Embracing Colorado!!
CSUHORT.BLOGSPOT.COM
Native Shrubs for Fall Color
If you don’t have their catalog yet...
SEEDSAVERS.ORG
Seed Savers Exchange Heirloom Seeds
Indian Hills Community Sign is at Indian Hills Community Center.
November 21 at 11:11 AM · Indian Hills, CO ·
We are so grateful for warm weather and that there’s still work in the garden. Now‘s a good time to remove dead foliage or whatever the deer haven’t finished off! Pull up any soaker hoses, glass rain gauges or any other garden accessories that might suffer winter damage. Ornamental grasses or plants with attractive foliage can remain until they become unsightly, then remove them!
STARTRIBUNE.COM
Anoka man wins world championship in California with his giant pumpkin
Herbs landed last week (some, not all)
In the next few weeks we'll sow Flowering Cabbage, Lobelia and Petunias. The ornamental cabbage will be hardened off and ready to plant late April. Petunias, once established, will take low 30's- but don't grow much!
New to Colorado gardening? It can be tricky to get started with the challenge of soils, frosts and critters, but there's tried and true resources to get you going. An easy, thorough on-line resource is the CSU Extension website where you can learn, literally, from the ground up! They provide adequate information to get you started, and often will give other resources to follow. Local greenhouses and nurseries have staff that would be more than happy to share their experiences and provide more resources. AND, if you enjoy social media, there's some great Facebook groups that share trials and errors! It seems each gardener finds their own successes and are smart enough to acknowledge failures- we call those "compost" :-)
https://extension.colostate.edu/topic-areas/yard-garden/?target=publications
EXTENSION.COLOSTATE.EDU
Yard & Garden - Extension
We'll be sowing chives, slicing onions and peppers this week. The onion family take some time to get started from seed and (if mature enough and hardened off) can go outside late April. If you start chives early enough- you'll be harvesting this summer! Bunching onions can be directly sown in the garden in April.
Interesting...
(from Greenhouse Grower Jan 24, 2021)
Genetically Engineered Orange Petunia Deregulation Now Official
By USDA-APHIS
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January 24, 2021
Orange PetuniasThe USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has announced the deregulation of petunia varieties, designated as A1-DFR, developed using genetic engineering to produce orange flowers.
After reviewing a petition and available data, APHIS published for a 30-day public comment period a preliminary determination of nonregulated status for A1-DFR petunias, a draft Plant Pest Risk Assessment that examined plant pest risks, a draft Environmental Assessment that analyzed the potential issues and environmental impacts, and a preliminary Finding of No Significant Impact. After thoroughly reviewing all public comments, APHIS has determined the A1-DFR petunia variety is unlikely to pose a plant pest risk to agricultural crops or other plants in the U.S. Therefore, A1-DFR petunias, and any progeny derived from them, are no longer to be considered regulated under APHIS’ Biotechnology Regulations at 7 CFR part 340.