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Newsletters
Events/Calendar/Schedules for this year
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Events/Calendar/Schedules for this year
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Reminder
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March
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Pond spring clean-outs begin (first-come, first-serve)
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June 1st
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New perennials can safely be planted now
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July 1st
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Parade of Ponds Tickets on sale at Early Bird Prices
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August
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2008 Parade of Ponds Saturday and Sunday, August 23rd and 24th in Denver
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September 15th
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Final date perennials should be planted
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October
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Pond winterizations done this month
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Water Garden Excellence Class Schedule
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Locations: |
Nick’s Garden Center 12:30 - 2pm
Arapahoe Acres 3:30 – 5pm
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Date
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Description
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March
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Spring Pond Start-Up, Ponds, plants, and fish |
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June 14 |
Pond Ecology, string algae, and water gardening 101 |
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September 20 |
Fall cleaning and winterization, whether to shut down or not |
Links
- True Pump - Colorado's best source for Aquascape pumps, supplies and hard to find items!: Click Here
- DavesGarden.com - Dave's Garden is a website where friends share their triumphs and dilemmas in their gardens and their lives: Click Here
- The Bird Man - Hand built birdhouses, bat houses, and birdfeeders. Birdseed delivery, birdbaths, consulting, organic pest control and more. This is your Full-Service place to shop for creating your Back-Yard Organic Eco-System: Click Here
- North American Water Garden Society - An organization of pond lovers dedicated to enjoyment and education: Click Here
- Colorado Water Garden Society - The first water garden society in the nation: Click Here
- Xeriscape Gardening Resource Site A Guide to Xeriscape Gardening: Click Here
- PlantSelect Cultivars - Introduction of new cultivars to our Colorado area: Click Here
- Denver Botanic Gardens Offers classes too: Click Here
- PlantTalk Colorado - Planttalk Colorado provides reliable, timely information on more than 400 horticultural topics: Click Here
- Xeriscape Colorado - Colorado Xeriscape information: Click Here
- Colorado Gardening - Gardening information for Colorado: Click Here
- CSU Coopertive Extension - Your connection to the research, information and expertise of your land-grant university: Click Here
- The Plants Database - Plant finder: Click Here
- USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map : Click Here
- Victoria's Adventures - Water lily resources and list of cultivars, photos: Click Here
- Colorado Native Plant Society - Dedicated to the appreciation and conservation of the Colorado native flora: Click Here
- Denver Rose Society: A home for Colorado Rose enthusiasts: Click Here
- Mile High Daylily Society: Click Here
- North American Rock Garden Society, Rocky Mountain Chapter - NARGS is for gardening enthusiasts interested in alpine, saxatile, and low-growing perennials: Click Here
- Western Colorado Gardening Foundation - Promote's funding for the edification of residents of Western Colorado: Click Here
- Plantalk Colorado - A 24-hour automated answer line on 500 subjects sponsored by CSU, Denver Botanic Gardens, and the Green Industry: Click Here
- Colorado State University Cooperative Extension - Information on mosquito management: Click Here
- Environmental Protection Agency - Mosquitos: How to Control Them: Click Here
- American Mosquito Control Association - Our mission is to provide leadership, information, and education leading to the enhancement of health and quality of life through the suppression of mosquitoes: Click Here
- USGS National Wildlife Health Center - West Nile Project: Click Here
- 9News.com's "Lawn & Garden" section: Click Here
Colorado Water Garden Society Educational Brochures
Tips, Trick & Tonics
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TIPS, TRICKS & TONICS
by Jerry Baker
SPRING AND SUMMER GARDEN NOTES:
If you will follow these few steps, using the tonics and mixes below can far surpass your greatest expectations.
- Dry Feed your entire property (growing areas) with a mixture of any formula of dry fertilizer adding one pound of sugar and one pound of Epsom salts per 2,500 sq. ft. bag and apply at half the recommended rate, using a hand-held broadcaster spreader. Do this Now!
- Liquid Feed as soon as the temperature gets about 40 degrees and stays there, every three weeks, before noon, until October 15th. Use this formula: One can of beer, one can of Coke (regular, not diet), one can of apple juice, one cup lemon-scented dish soap, one cup lemon-scented ammonia, one cup liquid lawn food, one cup human urine. Mix together and apply with a 20-gallon base and sprayer (before noon).
- Insect and Disease Prevention begin with prevention and cleanliness (use this formula every two weeks after 6 p.m.): One cup antiseptic mouthwash, one cup chamomile tea (five tea bags), one cup chewing tobacco juice (bags), one cup human urine, one cup lemon-scented dish soap. Mix together and apply with a 20-gallon sprayer over 3,000 square feet.
- Chemical Control will only be with fruit tree spray at 25 percent rate added to above.
- Grub Control can be taken care of with Grubex by O. M. Scott.
- Snail and Slug Control is a mixture of 75 percent palletized lime and 25 percent aluminum sulfate. Apply with a hand-held spreader.
- Mole Control is taken care of by destroying the source of food (grubs and worms) with Grubex.
- Dog Damage can be prevented with a mixture of four cups of dry Tide soap in a bag of palletized lime and applied from a hand-help broadcast spreader.
- Feeding and Watering Potted Plants and Containers is easy when you cup the center of baby diapers to fit the bottoms of pots, cover with soil, plant and water (diaper holds 30 times its weight in water).
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Clean Old Pots by soaking them in a bucket of hot water with four false teeth cleaner tablets.
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Contractor Referrals in the Denver Area
- Fencing:
Firefox Fence, Jeremy Nobi 970-461-9709 (Also works in northern Colorado)
- Tree Removal and Stump Grinding:
Balika Tree Service, Andy Balika, 303-596-3107
Bowman Tree Service, Rick Bowman, 303-478-8195
- Aeration, Lawn Mowing and fertilization, Sprinkler blow-outs:
G&G Landscaping, Pete and Lori Guardado, 720-851-2487
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