Colorado Garden Project

Recovering from a hail storm

Chris — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 17:05:01 +0000

I’m sure there are a lot of you out there in the same boat as me today. You woke up to find that your garden had been pummeled by hail and is now a shredded mess of it’s former self. Well, the truth is that you probably were woken up by the thunder and the [...]

The Waiting Game

Chris — Tue, 03 May 2011 18:28:37 +0000

So, what do you do when you’ve got your cold weather seeds in the ground, but it’s not quite time to put anything else out? Sadly, you wait. This is a hard time for me as a gardener because I have a hard time buckling down to do the boring parts of gardening when I [...]

Rainy Weekend

Chris — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 18:26:54 +0000

When I laid out my plans for my weekend, gardening made it’s way on the list more than once. Among other things, I was really hoping to get out and head off some of the annoying weeds that have already staked a claim in my precious garden. I did get some pulled from around my [...]

Starting Seeds

Chris — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 07:17:12 +0000

I’ve got to confess right off the bat that I’m not very good at starting seeds indoors. I’ve tried, but I always end up with less than a 50% success rate. It rarely stops me from trying though. The ROI on a package of seeds just seems so promising when compared to the cost of [...]

Let the Planting Begin

Chris — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 01:00:52 +0000

It’s hard to believe but it’s actually okay to start doing some planting here in Colorado – along the front range, least. I suppose it might be more of a shock in years when we weren’t having temperatures in the 60′s on a daily basis in early March, but it still feels strange to be [...]