Tag Archive: spring

Apr
13

Hardening Off Seedlings

Photo of trays of seedings

With a month to go until Boulder County’s average last frost date, it’s time to start thinking about hardening off cool-season crops! If you have season extenders like cold frames, row covers, or Wall-o-Waters, you can even harden off a few tomatoes and peppers too. Why Harden Off? Plants are wildly adaptable, which is part …

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Mar
31

Peas and bulbs and phlox, oh my!

a photo of crocuses

Tomorrow April begins, and with it us Zone 5-ers can at least begin to expect warmer weather (I have just guaranteed, by making this statement, that we will get one more snow storm here in Colorado. Sorry!). Yesterday it hit 80 here for the first time and that warm weather following so closely on the …

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