Utah Climate Data and Turf Water Requirements
Here’s a handy webpage to check each week to be sure I’m using the right amount of water on my lawn this year:
Utah Climate Data and Turf Water Requirements
Here’s a handy webpage to check each week to be sure I’m using the right amount of water on my lawn this year:
Utah Climate Data and Turf Water Requirements
Today, more sprouting is going on: Salvia nemorosa: clearly beginning to sprout. Salvia transylvanica: hard to tell (I need either my reading glasses or to take my contacts out!). Cosmos: many sprouts now. Echinacea: don’t see any new sprouts; they’ve slowed down, and I think it’s because I turned down the heat. I turned it…
It’s the first weekend of November (well, it was when I started writing this!), and it’s time to clean up some of the summer annuals and veggies and plant some winter veggies and flowers. It feels good to be planting something again! And it’s great to live in a place where winter plantings are even…
Check out these babies — three really big bowls like this, filled with Jonathan apples. I like these apples a lot; they taste more like green apples than red ones and they ripen a lot earlier than my Granny Smith apples. I believe we harvested these last Thursday, September 6th. That was even a little…
Yesterday evening, I drilled four holes in my chlorotic maple and inserted Medicap FE iron supplements. The tree is leafing, although not as thickly as the two healthy ones. Last August, I injected a lot of EDDHA iron into the soil around the tree with my root feeder watering device. I think that helped; the…
My Grape Hyacinths (Muscari) are blooming now. This year, I was concerned that all I was seeing from the Muscari was a tousled mass of leaves flopping around. But all of a sudden a week or so ago, the flower spikes just jumped up. They actually keep getting better every year, spreading a little and…
One of the reasons for moving back to northern California was to garden through the winter, and it hasn’t disappointed. This is the first winter with our new, large flowerbed in the front and our raised veggie beds, and we took advantage of those spaces to grow more winter flowers and a few vegetables. We…