Catherine is the horticulturist for Colorado Yard Care. She wants to help other Coloradoans learn how to take care of their landscapes with techniques that work, so that our communities are beautiful, valuable, and enjoyable. Using resources wisely to accomplish this goal is close to her heart.
Great video! I just bought pansies for the first time and I love them. I appreciate the tips. I was watching your video at Home Depot before I bought them ❤
Your method is effective, but backbreaking for any sizable area. One consideration is to avoid the types of landscaping that will turn in to a maintenance headache (sooner or later). I learned this the hard way. 🌺
I DID NOT KNOW YOU COULD COVER THAT MUCH OF THE ROOT! I’m KINDOF guessing it’s because your in Colorado I’ve never seen that on the East Coast & they sit in Winter snow( like in John Denver country
For iris growing in Colorado, what is your recommendation on trimming the leaves to a height of ~6" either in August or before winter. Thank you for the clear and helpful information on planting and deadheading iris.
I feel better after seeing this. I was doing thos the last couple of days, and then I saw videos saying to not do this and felt bad, lol! I was specifically researching what to do with the ones with one vertical side yellow and the other green. I will leave those alone going forward.
I reused old potting mix and combined compost and shredded leaves. Got a nice softball size tomato from a plant in a large pot about3 or 4 gallons. Thank you for your topic.
Depth of rhizome depends on climate and type of soil. Where I live, we plant them with the top one third of the rhizome showing. (Southwest MO- clay soil).
Hi, I'm newly subscribed Catherine. I read with interest your article on Horseweed/ Conyza Canadensis in which you said as this weed spreads by seed that leaving little of root behind will NOT cause it to regrow/re-establish BUT I have read the EXACT opposite on a different UK Gardening site, necessary to remove ALL root or WILL regrow Please, which is correct?My garden is covered, I am desperate.Help.
Leave the dandelions alone! They will fix your soil & create aeration for your soil. Bees and pollinators feed off the flowers in the spring. Don’t spray poisons on your lawn that can seriously harm your cats and dogs that walk or lie on the grass and then lick and groom themselves. And some weed killers contain Xeno estrogen that can affect your endocrine system and cause cancer in the reproductive organs.
After watching countless videos on this, I used this technique with 1.4” hardware cloth, without seeing this video. This has been the best technique if you can’t lift them all at once. It had taken me 3 months because mine is larger, I’m tiny (4’ 9” and have Lyme.) and we have had heatwaves. Now I want to wash the dust and dirt off them! The stones, from upper MI are beautiful and I can’t find more like them. Anyone know what will wash away mulch dust, dirt, and make them look nice? The landscapers want to out down glue to keep the grass they don’t bag out of the stones. Not sure if that’s the answer, because it also collects debris from a distressed tree. ❣️
Love this idea! I went Lowes to get the mesh. However, I laid my mesh over a 30year old little red wagon and let the debris go into the wagon. Wheeled it around and dumped it when finished. The clean rock rolled off onto a plastic cloth on my patio so I could shove it back where it belongs. No heavt lifting!
Thank you for the video. Remember to always use your pruning shears with the blade towards the portion that you are going to retain. If the Anvil is towards the portion you are going to retain it will be a crushing cut which would heal much more slowly and look unattractive in the meantime. This is a general rule of thumb with all pruning