Cheryl Moore-Gough Master Gardener With our rugged climate, variable soils and many elevations, gardening in Montana can be downright bewildering for newcomers to the state and Montana natives, too. Whether they're trying to make a begonia bloom or coping with early frosts, gardeners across .
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I m always looking for ways to make gardening more streamlined, so when I stumbled across the concept of a keyhole garden, my interest was officially piqued. These garden beds look like raised beds â and it s no secret we
love a raised bed â but they have an ingenious added feature that makes them even more efficient and easy to care for.
Naturally, I needed to know more about keyhole gardening and whether it s as game-changing as it seems, so I reached out to a few master gardeners to pick their brains. Here s what I learned.
Starting plants from seed takes attention and patience
Marisa Y. Thompson
Starting plants from seed can be confusing. Too little water and they dry and die. Too much and all of a sudden you’re farming algae. Patience and attentiveness are required during this delicate phase of seedling growth, especially if some seeds are sprouting while others take their sweet time.
Visit the blog version of this column at https://nmsudesertblooms.blogspot.com for more seed starting tips, and check out the recorded Ready, Set, GROW! gardening webinar “Indoor Seed Starting” with NMSU Bernalillo County Extension Program Manager Nissa Patterson at https://desertblooms.nmsu.edu/ready-set-grow.html.
By Norman Winter
Pantone, the gurus of all things color has selected Ultimate Gray and Illuminating Yellow for the 2021 colors of the year. Some headlines call it “Pandemic Gray” but The Garden Guy loves it and you will see it opens the door to one of the toughest, persevering and award-winning plants of all time, Flambé Yellow chrysocephalum.
Flambé Yellow gives you both pantone colors on one plant. Silver gray leaves and stems partnered with yellow button flowers that are produced non-stop all growing season. It has won 85 awards from Florida, Georgia to Texas, Delaware to Penn State and Cornell. There aren’t too many plants that can match this trophy case.