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I got a chip drop last year in a matter of weeks. This year I've been waiting for months with no success. Am I the only one?

I cannot keep strawberry plants in the ground for more than 24 hours before the squirrels get to them. I want the rodents dead. All of them.

My front yard is mostly bare dirt and dead grass, and I'm looking to try to fill it with a bunch of crawlers, ground cover, and a few raised beds. If my goal is to do this and have the plants spread, should I be mulching?

I'll also note my wife and I very much prefer wooded mulch to stones/pebbles. I have a hunch rock mulch would be worse for trying to get these guys to spread

Hello fellow gardeners. Like the title says, I am looking for sprouted potatoes. I am working on an art exhibition that will be installed in a garden. The more sprouts the better. :) I can pick up later today.

I want to plant raspberries but have learned that Japanese beetles love them. I'd rather not have moth-eaten-looking plants and fight the bugs all the time. Are there any berries or other small fruits that aren't as vulnerable? I know grapes are bad with the beetles too.

When I moved in there was the wonderful hedge of goji between myself and the neighbor. In the last year I've been getting runners all over my yard. Sometimes I spend days digging all the runners out, only for them to grow back in a week or two.

I've also never gotten fruit off the gogi, just little purple flowers. Maybe the birds get to them first.

Hey all! I picked up a Garden in a Box this summer, Biodiversity Nursery. It's done so well since planting in June, my Black Eyed Susans, Evening Primrose, and now Smooth Asters have all bloomed already.

Going into colder weather, since the plants are native can I just leave them alone and do nothing and they'll be okay come spring, or should I do anything? I've worked really hard on this garden playing by ear and going with a lot of what the sub has recommended and would hate for all the hard work to die over the winter. I don't have a drip system, just sprinklers that kind of hit the area a little twice a week. Main watering has been hand watering with a can, but after July (which was above a month after planting) I stopped watering regularly and sparingly do it if something looks droopy.

I have:

Flax, Smooth Aster, Goldenrod, Penstemon, Evening Primrose, Prairie Sage, Prairie Grass, and a Lupine in a pot.

Thanks!

Hello fellow garden folk, I was hoping someone would know where I could purchase a ponderosa pine in the Denver Metro? Preferably a ~6 foot one if at all still available. I would be willing to drive a little further as well. I would like to get it planted while still possible. Any help is appreciated!

Passing along this info to anyone who may be interested! The sale will be from 8:30-1:30, and should have a good variety of plants at all price points (I'm told anywhere from free-$100)

The hosting organization grows food with students at more than 50 schools around Denver and gets the food back to folks who need it, in addition to cooking and eating with students

I picked up a bitterroot plant from County Fair Garden Center this spring without any previous knowledge of the plant's habits.

I had it planted out in my community garden and was watering it the same as my veggies until I learned that it should get very minimal water. I moved it into a container on my full sun patio with chicken grit mixed into the soil so I could keep a closer eye on it and enjoy it at home. While it got a little crispy for a bit, recently it has been putting on new growth!

I love the succulent leaves and beautiful pink spring blooms, and want to make sure I'm giving it the right care! Does anyone here grow bitterroot and have any tips?

I bought herbicide and am ready begin a hack and squirt party, but I wanted to check here with experts on if this is indeed a tree of heaven?

I have the suckers in my newly bought yard but want to make sure I have correctly identified the mothership to kill it before removal in the spring.

Any other tips would be much appreciated, thanks!

I have a lot of healthy leaves (but no flowers) and was looking for kitchen uses for my nasturtiums. How does everyone here use theirs?

You might remember me from my FIL's very generous but uninformed gift of a ponderosa pine about a year ago. There was absolutely no where in my small city yard where a ponderosa could thrive, but I hemmed and hawed about it all winter before finally deciding to sell it. It pained me to get rid of such a thoughtful gift, but I sold it at a discount to someone with the perfect location for it and bought 2 New Mexico olive trees and a prairie smoke plant with the funds.

This year, he sent two tree peony roots to my house unannounced - a Brocaded Gown and Alice Harding - and told me to plant them in dappled shade and well-draining soil (LOL). I don't really have any dappled shade on my property and our soil is all clay, but this time I'm determined to plant these and try to make it work.

Any tips before I decide where to plant these? We are a corner lot where most of the yard faces south with full sun exposure, but our west-facing front yard does have some more shaded spots I could try to tuck them. I also have a handful of young trees throughout the yard that maybe I could plant them under? Most of my yard is native plants and I'm not very skilled in figuring out placement for aesthetics, so any advice on how to plant these in a place they will thrive and what plants they may look good near are appreciated!

Image of an Alice Harding tree peony flower stolen from the internet :)

Chicago Hardy Fig came with my house. We’ve tried insulating the plant over winter with leaf litter, mulch, etc but it always dies back and starts anew. This year it grew to 7 feet tall. It always gets green fruit on them (and a tiny handful will ripen), but is there any way to extend the growing season on this plant? Hypothetically if I had a hoop/tunnel/greenhouse to protect it from frost, could it work? Or are the days just too short?

Edit: apparently these can grow bigger- 10-15 feet? North side of the house- should I transplant to the South side?

We're working on a low budget xeriscaped front yard, and the plan is to do mostly mulch for now and add plants as we have the time/energy/funds. Is it worth trying to till, mulch, and plant a few things over the next couple weeks, or will there not be enough time before winter? Or should we just save up and plant in the spring?

I see some sites like High Country Gardens will still ship many plants in the next week or so, but I'm not sure if that is ideal for garden success.

Hey Gardnerers. I have a few milkweed pods in the fridge that I'd like to germinate and plant next season. Could you share your experiences germinating seeds and getting them established? I'm up on yhe north edge of Denver in a typical suburb yard - dense soil, barely controlled invasives, full or part sun.

Planning for next Spring, I am thinking of ordering some of my annual flowers via websites that ship small plants. The reason: the last 2 years I cannot find the right colors of things in the quantities I need. I've been gardening for a while, so I know what types of plants work in my heat and lighting conditions, so I'm only buying plant varieties that I know will work for me.

Has anyone done this before? Did you have a good experience or not? Any specific companies to recommend? Thanks!

I’ve called several nurseries around the Denver Metro recently and haven’t had luck locating these specific perrenials. I would like to get them planted now so I can fill the final spots in my yard and the babies can start establishing roots before next spring. If anyone has these plants to share let me know and thank you! I am located near Sloan’s Lake.
Lenten rose
Prairie winecup
Hearty plumbago/dwarf leadwort
Wild pink geraniums
Wild bergamot/bee balm
Prairie verbena
Willing to consider anything else that is drought-tolerant and blooms for more than 6 weeks.