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Tag Archives: Colorado gardening
Landscaping in Slow Motion
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
End of Season Miscellany
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
Posted in change of seasons, fall, gardening
Tagged cherry tree, Colorado gardening, fall harvest, garlic confit, pea tendrils
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A Preponderance of Purple
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
Posted in color, gardening, wildflowers
Tagged color in gardening, Colorado gardening, purple flowers, wildflowers of Colorado
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Losing the Garlic
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
Posted in gardening, procrastination, spring
Tagged Colorado gardening, growing garlic, high altitude gardening
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