Tag: Southern Utah Gardening
Southern Utah Gardening: Fall yard projects and pruning pointers
Southern Utah Gardening: Fall yard projects and pruning pointers
By Taun Beddes
After all the planting, mowing, weeding, and harvesting, many gardeners are looking forward to...
Southern Utah Gardening: Zinnias, a favorite summer flower
Southern Utah Gardening: Zinnias, a favorite summer flower
Gardeners aren't typically a lazy bunch --- quite the opposite. But all of us, at some time...
Southern Utah Gardening: How to control Colorado potato beetles
Southern Utah Gardening: How to control Colorado potato beetles
The pretty yellow-and-black-striped Colorado potato beetle is native to wild solanaceous plants of the semi-arid western...
Southern Utah Gardening: How to grow basil
Southern Utah Gardening: How to grow basil
I must admit that while I haven't been ignoring my writing obligation directly, I just haven't been doing...
Southern Utah Gardening: Growing eggplant successfully
Southern Utah Gardening: Growing Eggplant Successfully
As much fun as it is to peruse the great variety of eggplants offered in seed catalogs and imagine...
Southern Utah Gardening: Deadheading roses
Southern Utah Gardening: Deadheading roses
I thoroughly enjoyed the prolific and huge blooms on my roses in May! Then they stated to fade, and I...
Southern Utah Gardening: Harvesting and drying herbs
Southern Utah Gardening: Harvesting and Drying Herbs
I have no idea how many folks out there are paying attention to my articles documenting my garden...
Southern Utah Gardening: Attracting beneficial insects to the garden
It happens every spring. First, a few aphids appear on the coal crops. A week later, the aphids have doubled. You start to get...
Southern Utah Gardening: Backyard composting
Southern Utah Gardening: Backyard composting
There's more to backyard composting than leaves, grass clippings, and kitchen scraps. In one handful of brown compost matter exists...
Southern Utah Gardening: Spring pruning
Southern Utah Gardening: Spring pruning
A recent gardening project of mine was to cut back a large deciduous shrub. The large shrub I cut back...