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

Roses are a part of our human heritage. There are literally thousands of cultivated and wild roses on the market to choose

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

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

Starting Over

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