Soon it will be time for the calves to be born at Diamond Tail Ranch in northern Colorado, ushering in a whole new cycle of life. That includes plant life, as the prairie where the buffalo roam has been springing to life with the boost of buffalo organic material for thousands of years. Now this [...]
When my spring issue of Zone 4 Magazine arrived the other day, I felt its heft (at nearly 100 pages) and thought “Yes! Spring is here!” Zone 4 is The Authority on high-altitude gardening, agriculture, and food, and is available in a wide and growing range of retail places. It’s on the Internet with a [...]
Ah, February…dim, dank and depressing in northern climates, foggy and rainy in southern ones. But just when you least expect it, the promise of spring breaks forth. This promise blooms full strength in the bulb flowers that appear in markets in February, just in time for the first of the floral Triple Crown of holidays, [...]
Come January, the seed catalogues pour in, even in this Internet Age. It’s amazing that, for the same price you’d pay for a plant in a 4-inch pot, you can get a dozen or even up to a couple hundred seeds! Think of all the food you could harvest, the flowers and houseplants you could fill your house with and the living gifts you could give your neighbors and friends!
BuffaLoam enthusiasts are not fazed by changing weather, and we’re busy with gardening chores, inside and out. Here are some of the gardening techniques that will pay green dividends in blossoms, plants and food throughout the winter and next season: PLANT bulbs and seeds. Plant spring bulbs such as crocus, tulips, daffodils, narcissus and hyacinth, [...]