Tag Archives: Colorado gardening

Landscaping in Slow Motion

Posted on July 3, 2017 by Andrea Jones

Most of the landscaping around here came with the place. Contracting crews working on the house in 2002-03 were flustered that we were such sticklers about maintaining a tight construction envelope around the site, but I’m glad every day we … Continue reading →

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End of Season Miscellany

Posted on November 13, 2014 by Andrea Jones

The season is over. The potatoes are dug, as are the carrots and the dinky onions. The kale, while green right up until an arctic front settled over us and drove temperatures below zero, is done for the season. The … Continue reading →

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A Preponderance of Purple

Posted on August 13, 2014 by Andrea Jones

My tastes don’t generally run toward clear favorites or coveting the “best” of this or that. I favor variety and contrast and have a tendency to be suspicious of my strongest biases, regarding them with clinical curiosity and trying to … Continue reading →

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Losing the Garlic

Posted on April 8, 2014 by Andrea Jones

For the first time in five or six years, I haven’t lost the garlic. I plant it in the fall, breaking a few heads up into individual cloves and digging them in like little bulbs. The garlic bed shifts from … Continue reading →

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