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Design Systems
Foods you can successfully grow in your garden in the Colorado Springs / foothills of the Rockies.
Growing Food in Colorado, part I
Thinking about growing your own food in Colorado’s foothills? Let’s get really real about it.
Dividing, Multiplying, & Harvesting
Wow it’s hot! Summer’s perhaps arriving sooner than expected. Lots of dividing & multiplying. Lots of weeding too. My potting benches are overfull of propagating attempts. Not all make it but so many impressively do and I’m as pleased as Punch can be. Harvesting’s begun too — for nettles, lemon balm, hyssop, comfrey, mugwort, sage, […]
Rerouting New Paths!
Yay Spring! It’s finally warm enough to begin cutting back last year’s growth and observing new ones. And with new growth, garden paths are migrating! It’s always fun trying to decide where to reroute paths in anticipation of this year’s growing.
Cold-Stratification & Kombucha Brews
It’s still cold, so I think we’ll sow yet more seeds to cold-stratify in time for spring flowers. Outside, there’s rutting deer & busy birdbaths. Inside, we’re putting up tinctures and talking about how we get our Kombucha brews going. Need a SCOBY to get started?
Fall/Winter 2023
It’s gotten cold. We’ve had some snow. The garden’s pretty much gone to bed. Only a little- that should’ve been done by the season’s end – is left to do. Cold-stratify next spring’s seeds. Protect young plants from cold winter and hungry wildlife. Tidy everything back into place. The herbs are dried and waiting to be […]
