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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…

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…

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…

So I chuckled to myself when I got the email from the Casper Star-Tribune thanking me for my years of writing gardening columns for them but there were some changes they were making and my services were no longer needed. Really? Fired via email, that was a first for me.

There are any number of things horticulturally speaking that make me go bonkers when I analyze the situation. I thought I’d share with you some of those things that make no sense to me yet we habitually do them. Probably the number one bonker for me is watching people irrigate freshly laid sod. Just so you know, sod might have a half inch or so of root when it comes from the sod farm. There is absolutely no reason to turn your landscape into a bog

I was conflicted this week as to what to write for this article. It was a toss-up between creepy crawlers in the garden or things that make me go bonkers horticulturally speaking. For instance the mega natural disaster caused by last November’s big chill that killed approximately thirty percent of our landscape plants that nobody in the public sector seems to be addressing. So to avoid making people mad at me, I’m choosing creepy crawlers! Let’s start with slugs. If you have slugs foraging on your new lettuce or tomato leaves this is a clear indication that you are over