Utah Climate Data and Turf Water Requirements

This is the first time I’ve grown green beans, and they turned out pretty good. I harvested most of them on Sunday, October 5th. They were planted on July 23rd, so that made 74 days till harvest. The package said they’d be ripe in 60 days, but I imagine the cold nights have slowed them…

I’ve broken down, and for the first time in my life, I bought and planted some petunias. OK, they’re not the gaudy awful ones, they’re just a salmon-pink (‘Hurrah Salmon’ variety), with medium sized flowers, and I want them to fill in spaces in the front walkway flowerbed. I did that on Tuesday, I think….

I meant to do this in December, but I’ve finally gotten around to stratifying some maple seeds. I have Japanese, Amur, Rocky Mountain (or maybe Bigtooth), and some normal green maples that get golden leaves in the fall. I collected the Japanese maple seeds from my tree in front of the house, and they were…