The University Extension Service is offering free gardening classes, starting Tuesday July 20.
The classes will be “taught by Utah State University Master Gardeners. We will cover all the basics, starting with soil preparation and ending with food preservation.”
For information, click here.
Posts under ‘Gardening’
Free Gardening Class
Salad Season
It’s finally salad season, with early crops mature enough to pick. We’ve got some beautiful radishes, along with lettuce, spinach, green onion, mustard, and beet greens. The rhubarb is also thriving, but it’s too early for other fruits to combine it with!
Is summer finally here?
With the hackberry trees in bloom and National Weather Service predicting a week of lows in the 40s (after one more night of frost), it’s tempting to declare that winter is finally over. Maybe it is, maybe not. We’ve seen frost as late as the second week of June.
Nevertheless, it’s time to plant tomatoes. If [...]
Something New: Jerusalem Artichoke
(Wikimedia photo.)
As winter finally breaks into spring, my thoughts turn to gardening. The promise of fresh food that is both tastier and better for the earth than anything we can buy in a store is tantalizing. As soon as tax season is over, I’m ready to trade my laptop for a shovel.
Our soil is challenging, [...]
Ranch Picture of the Day
(DJ Mitchell Photo) Suellen & Annie
This picture is our East view. Obviously taken during a warmer time of the year. DJ is already getting spring fever and has ordered some seeds for the garden.
How to grow an English herb garden
Another resource from Google Books: A Garden of Herbs: Being A Practical Handbook To The Making Of An Old English Herb Garden Together With Numerous Receipts From Contemporary Authorities. By Eleanour Sinclair Rohde (1920).
This fascinating book discusses the hows and whys of creating an intricately designed herb garden of the traditional English style. It covers [...]
Chard: Last Vegetable Standing
Several weeks after our first frost, with many nights dipping into the low teens, only the hardiest of vegetables are still standing. In our garden, that means chard, our last surviving crop. We planted five-color chard for the second year this year and found it not only tasty, but sturdy as well.
We like it baked. [...]
The Mystery Plant
I have these two plants growing in my garden, and I thought they were eggplant. they had small, purple fruits, but the fruits never seemed to get bigger. I got online and searched for eggplant varieties: nothing looked similar. So I thought maybe it was a tomato: again, no match. It didn’t look like any sort [...]
Tis the Season for Canning
As gardens begin to deluge us with fresh vegetables, we may wonder what to do with it all. Give it to the neighbors? Throw it out? Feed it to the chickens?
Don’t despair: one solution is to can foods in canning jars for later use. Most foods will last at least a year when canned; some [...]
