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Planning and Planting Your First Vegetable Garden
Planning and Planting Your First Vegetable Garden
Pretty good, end-to-end summary of starting your own vegetable garden.
Companion Planting: Three Sisters
Corn, beans, and squash are called the “three sisters.” Native Americans always inter-planted this trio because they thrive together, much like three inseparable sisters.
Source: Companion Planting: Three Sisters | The Old Farmer’s Almanac
Vegetable Gardening in the Mountains
Growing vegetables in Colorado presents challenges, but growing vegetables in the mountains is harder still. This is due to the much shorter growing season, cool nights, wind, critters, and possible watering restrictions. For the purposes of this fact sheet, ‘high elevation’ or ‘mountains’ means anything over 7,500 feet in elevation in Colorado.
Source: Vegetable Gardening in the Mountains – 7.248 – ExtensionExtension
Sumac Eradication
We have Sumac all over the place, and we need to eliminate it before it gets completely out of hand. This basically says we’ll spend 3 years poisoning it.