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Topics covered in this video:

• What are wildflowers?
• Why are wildflowers important?
• Learn how you can successfully grow your own wildflowers in Colorado.

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•  A handful of great options for attracting pollinators – bees, bee flies butterflies, moths and hummingbirds (as well as other beneficial insects such as hoverflies, lacewings, ladybugs, beetles) – to your garden. Some of these plants also help deter other pests in your garden like aphids, squashbugs
• A successful pollinator garden will have a diverse variety of plant species, with an emphasis on native plants. We encourage you to call us stop by for prices and availability of these plants.
  • Annuals for Pollinators: Calendulas, Lantanas, African Daisies, Petunias, Salvias , Zinnias
  • Perennials for Pollinators: Catmint, Coneflowers, Delphiniums, Lavender, Butterfly Weed (host plant for the monarch butterfly), Phlox, Salvia
  • Shrubs for Pollinators: Potentillas, Weigela
  • Trees for Pollinators: Cortland Apple,  Bing Cherry, Willow

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Topics covered in this video:

• What to Plant: Annuals and vegetables
• Benefits: Offers great early season color. Plants tolerate cooler weather and light frost. You can bring your container indoors when temps drop below freezing.
• Gather Your Supplies: Potting mix, fertilizers, large pot, your plants, watering can
• How to Plant Your Container Garden: Fill the pot 2/3 full with soil. Water until damp. Add slow-release fertilizers. Select your combo of pants with similar light requirements. Place your tallest plant in the back (example: Columbine). Make sure to not overcrowd your plants so they have room to grow. Loosen root balls slightly. Fill the areas around your plants with soil. Cleanup excess dirt. Give your plants a gentle drink with a watering can.

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Topics covered in this video:

• What are the benefits of starting plants from seed?
• Supplies needed to start plant from seed: containers, seeds, planting mix (soil), optional lighting
• Information needed to start your seeds: light requirements, starting seeds too late or too early, seed packet information, useful record keeping: growing charts and worksheets
• Step-by-step: how to plant your seeds
• Thinning out your seedlings
• Hardening off your seedlings
• Transplanting your seedlings
• Protecting your seedlings after planting
• Common problems and solutions

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Topics covered in this video:

• Benefits for starting plants from seed
• Timing requirements
• What supplies you’ll need
• Planting your seeds once they have sprouted
• Caring for your new plantings and seedlings
• Introducing your seedlings to the great outdoors!
• Additional resources

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This demonstration is presented by Dean Lind: an avid tomato and vegetable gardener who has been gardening in the Tri-Lakes area for over 30 years. “I’ve been been growing up here against Mount Herman for 30 years, and I haven’t learned my lesson yet!”, says Dean Lind.

Watch as Dean gives you tips for success and learn how to beat the elements for a successful tomato-growing season. Dean grows big “roma” tomatoes in order to can and to make salsa. He does plant a few plants for eating tomatoes.

Common tomato-growing questions that Dean addresses in this video:

• How do you start your tomato plants, and when do you begin transplanting?
• How do you care for your tomato plants?
• When do you typically start planting?
• How do you protect a tomato plant once it is planted?
• How do you protect tomato plants from wildlife?
• How do you make your own compost?

Closing advice from Dean: “Plant enough for the animals, plant enough for the weather, and if you’re lucky you get one-third for you!”

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Topics covered in this video:

Basic houseplant care and becoming a houseplant parent!

Houseplant questions addressed in this video:

• Who can become a plant parent?
• What you should feed your new baby
• Where your plants should live
• When you know you’re ready to become a plant person
• Why you should be come a crazy plant person
• How to choose a houseplant, or 10, because that’s what happens once you buy one!
• Resources

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