Test Your Winter Gardening IQ
Okay, gardeners, the holidays are over and you are still hungover (figuratively speaking), and quite frankly you haven’t used your gardening brain in quite some time. In fact, your gardening…
The Apex for Planting
Webster’s Dictionary defines apex as ‘the highest or culminating point’. Well gardeners, we have reached the apex of plant development for the year, which means that this is an absolutely…
Arbor Day, A Tree Holiday
Arbor Day this year falls on April 28. Arbor Day is considered a tree holiday, a time to celebrate trees in our environment and to plant them for future generations.…
Soil Basics
It’s amazing what a few warm days in early spring will do to gardeners yearning to garden. In fishing parlance, it’s akin to a feeding frenzy. Gardeners all across Wyoming…
March Gardening Chores
March came in like a lamb this year. Let’s hope the old wives’ tale doesn’t play out and March goes out like a lion. We Wyomingites get brain washed into…
Six Tree Planting Strategies You Can Do to Insure Success
It isn’t easy growing trees and shrubs in Wyoming—one look at our prairies would suggest that trees and shrubs aren’t in the cards! But we CAN grow trees, and to…
Test Your Gardening IQ
Winter seems to linger in Wyoming far longer than other areas. It’s far too easy for a gardener to put off thinking about the gardening season. Yet the reality is…
Yes, Wyoming, You Can Grow Roses!
Roses are a part of our human heritage. There are literally thousands of cultivated and wild roses on the market to choose from. Not all will work in Wyoming, but…
Fruit for Wyoming
Looking at our vast Wyoming prairies, deserts, and mountain landscapes, one would think fruit production just isn’t in the cards. The fact is you’d be dead wrong! Just a quick…
How Trees Survive the Cold
The largest organisms in your landscape are trees. At maturity the weight of trees are calculated in tons. Some trees like the Plains Cottonwood–Wyoming’s State Tree–can transpire upwards of 500…