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Spring related posts- The Organic Forecast Show Menu Home Blog Contact Seasons Spring Summer Fall Winter This page is defended to all our SPRING inspired posts. An easy way to find all our blog entries that imbricate tips and tricks on  everything from prepping garden beds and starting seeds to which pests to watch for early in the growing season. May 1, 2016 April Showers Bring May Trowels With all of this recent moisture and forecasted sunny warm days, we can certainly expect for our gardens to explode with new growth. Certainly it is fun to see seeds sprout and transplants double in size overnight, but withal with unconfined growing conditions for garden plants comes unconfined growing conditions for weeds in the garden.… Read increasingly April 3, 2016 To Till or Not to Till, That Is the Question! Sometimes I hear seasonal ‘buzz’ words for the season. This spring, the whoosh word I alimony hearing is till – should I, shouldn’t I, why do I, what happens if I don’t?  All unconfined questions! Perhaps the most important thing to remember is there is no one correct way to grow a garden. Gardeners successfully… Read increasingly March 6, 2016 Soil Test Questions Answered by Our Expert – Dr. Jennifer Reeve! One wondrous wholesomeness of working for Utah State University, the land-grant University for the State of Utah, is my wangle to the wholesale and deep expertise of our specialists housed on-campus.    Dr. Jennifer Reeve is an Associate Professor of Organic and Sustainable Agriculture for USU. Although she does not have an Extension appointment, I… Read increasingly March 27, 2016 Oh Snap! Easter weekend is a reminder that it is time to hibernate some precious egg shaped gems in the garden – I’m talking well-nigh sugar snap peas of course!  I was in New Orleans, Louisiana last week and got a sneak peak of the garden delicacies to come in just a few weeks’ time from now.… Read increasingly May 22, 2016 Bee is the Buzzword… Washington State University recently produced the video unelevated which provides a nice overview of plant pollination, types of pollinators, and other issues impacting pollinators such as protection from insecticides, pests and other stresses.  It moreover covers honey bee pathogens, concerns well-nigh neonicotinoid effects on honey bee ripen and discusses native and solitary bees as volitional pollinators.  To learn more… Read increasingly April 10, 2016 Compost Uncovered Every time I have the opportunity to pass withal nuggets of wisdom from our experts to you I try to do so to goody all our gardens!  Spring is upon us which ways many gardeners are bursting at the seams with gardening questions. Soil testing, soil amendments and use of compost are three topics we… Read increasingly May 8, 2016 We are ready to Grow! This was the first week for our Meals Plus Harvest Garden workdays at Wheeler Farm. Our Master Gardener volunteers rose to the rencontre of garden preparation (repair of planting beds, fine layer of mulch on top of planting beds, weeding north and south gardens) and man did they unhook a trappy prepped garden space!  Thank… Read increasingly April 13, 2015 Timely Tip: Don’t Let Your Rhubarb PlantsVendiblesand Run! I noticed over the weekend that my rhubarb plants were starting to form flower heads, or bolt. Gardeners grow rhubarb for its edible leafstalk (do not eat the leaves considering they contain oxalic acid), not the flowers or seeds so, bolting of rhubarb plants is undesirable from the gardener’s perspective. Instinctively, I ran to grab… Read increasingly May 24, 2015 The Salad Days of Spring: Top 10 Veggies and Herbs to Grow in Cool, Wet Weather I have been getting lots of questions and comments of late from Master Gardeners, colleagues, and friends well-nigh the cool, wet weather. Personally, I refuse to let unseasonably upper amounts of spring moisture ‘dampen’ my spirits – let’s squatter it, we need the water – so my translating is, embrace the wet weather and grow… Read increasingly May 17, 2015 Top 10 Ways to Make and Use Compost Mike Whitesides, our Extension marketing guru, has asked me to compile some ‘Top 10’ lists for your reading pleasure.  Here is the second installment and a timely tip, how to make and use compost: Location-location-location! Place your compost bin near the zone you plan to spread your compost and near a user-friendly water source.  Oftentimes,… Read increasingly May 10, 2015 Top 10 Ways to Attract Bees & Butterflies to Your Yard Plant plants that viridity throughout the growing season and hence provide a continuous supply of pollen and nectar. When selecting plants at the nursery, make sure to not only purchase plants that viridity in the spring, but moreover plants that viridity in the summer, and plants that viridity in the fall so pollinators have a… Read increasingly March 1, 2015 Be Legit-Get Equipped! Start Garden Seedlings Indoors One of the weightier ways to write-up the winter time blues is to start your own garden seedlings indoors. Nothing screams spring like watching your garden plants germinate and grow!  Starting seedlings indoors is not nonflexible and does not need to be expensive, but there are some necessary equipment purchases you need to make to… Read increasingly March 15, 2015 Where are all the bees this year? I wonted early in the process of conceptualizing this blog that it was necessary to add posts on a weekly understructure to write timely issues of snooping or interest.  It is certainly true that there is year to year variability and hence the need to discuss occasional issues and provide a timely research-based response to… Read increasingly March 22, 2015 Update on Warm Weather’s Effect on Fruit Trees Utahans are still worried (and some fruit growers and USU Extension fruit experts are losing sleep) over the warm weather’s effect on fruit trees.  As I am sure you have noticed, some fruit trees, like sweet cherries, peaches, apricots, and plums, are once in bloom! Although it’s true that stone fruits, like cherries, peaches, nectarines,… Read increasingly March 29, 2015 Spring is in the air- achoo! Well, its official, spring has sprung!  If you are an allergy sufferer, it might be untellable to convince you that the archway of spring is a vapor of fresh air, but it’s nonflexible to deny that it is fun to see the garden come to life without the stark winter months.  To some, the entrance… Read increasingly April 5, 2015 It’s time to make amends! One unconfined way to say ‘I’m sorry’ to your largest half is to ‘make amends’ by spending the afternoon amending his or her garden soil for the growing season.  Recently, 16 fraternity and sorority members from the University of Utah made their retrievement for previous wrongdoings by helping me prep the Meals Plus Harvest garden… Read increasingly February 22, 2015 5 Things to Know well-nigh Testing Your Soil- Don’t get testy over soil testing! If you live in Salt Lake County and have your soil tested, you might notice on the marrow of the report the statement “for remoter assistance, please see your county wage-earner Katie Wagner”.  Well, I am indeed the wage-earner listed so I receive dozens of calls each year from gardeners with questions well-nigh soil testing. … Read increasingly April 14, 2014 Tip of the Week: Monitor for Aphids on Fruit Trees Spring has sprung, fruit trees are visculent and USU Extension’s Utah Pest team is on on the lookout for up-to-date pest and disease issues here in Utah. A worldwide pest to start monitoring for now are APHIDS! “Aphids overwinter as eggs, and if they were not killed by a dormant oil spray, they are hatching now. There are several species, but they all have similar life cycles, behave similarly, cause the same damage, and are treated the same…..Monitor your fruit… Read increasingly April 12, 2014 Should I soil test? Yes! Every spring the Extension office fills with gardeners bringing in samples of their problematic garden soil asking to have it tested. While we don’t have a lab here in Salt Lake, we can hands squire them with sending the sample to the Utah State University Analytical Lab in Logan. Soil test are important in helping… Read increasingly Utah State Unveristy is an affirmative action/equal opportunity institution Snap theme by The Theme Foundry error: Content is protected !!