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Fall Gardening Tips with PlantTalk Colorado
Fall 2009
Contact: Joanne Littlefield
Assistant Director-Community Relations
Phone: (970) 491-4640
Joanne.Littlefield@colostate.edu
Gardening Information for Colorado
With winter approaching, you may be looking around the garden and thinking it’s time to sit back and take in the colors of autumn, think again—there is still plenty of garden tasks to do before the ground freezes. However, knowing how to extend the growing season or winterize your garden can be a challenge. Imagine if you could have that information with you while visiting the nursery or working in the garden.
Through a partnership of Colorado State University Extension, the Denver Botanic Gardens and Green Industries of Colorado (GreenCO), PlantTalk Colorado provides gardening information on over 400 topics as weekly podcasts, which can be downloaded as mp3 audio files to your media player. Written scripts are also available in English and Spanish.
Late fall is a great time to plant bulbs for spring blooms. Gardeners can download podcasts and listen for a variety of tips on bulbs from bed preparation and selection to fertilization and maintenance.
Once the first frost arrives, annuals and perennials begin to wither in the garden. Applying mulch in the garden can help protect your plants and improve soil content during the harsh winter months. PlantTalk Colorado provides information on a variety of organic mulches.
If you saved some of your garden favorite as houseplants, PlantTalk Colorado provides instructions for dividing and re-establishing perennials. For houseplants that spent the summer outside, it’s time to acclimate them to the indoors. You can access podcasts on tips for replanting and maintaining houseplants during the winter.
Gardeners can also find tips on extending the growing seasoning. PlantTalk Colorado has podcasts available on fall planting of cold tolerant vegetables for spring harvest. Fall means pumpkin season. As a warm season vegetable, pumpkins should be harvested before the first hard freeze. PlantTalk Colorado also has a variety of information on harvesting and storing pumpkins. Gardeners can also find tips on saving seeds for great pumpkins next year.
To access PlantTalk Colorado podcasts go to www.planttalk.org. Users can subscribe to a weekly RSS feed to have tips for greater gardening success sent directly to their email at: www.planttalkcolorado.org/rss, or to download as an mp3 file.
Updated Tuesday, September 13, 2011
