Planting

best fall trees for utah planting gardens
It’s fall and Utah’s tree foliage is on the turn. Select from this list of USU Extension's best fall trees for Utah gardens to capture a crescendo of colors that showcases the season’s palette brilliantly. Nothing evokes the cozy feelings of fall like the brilliant blaze of colors that...
Prepping your landscape for winter can lighten your spring cleanup load, reduce disease and give your spring garden a jump-start. Here are a few tasks to add to your autumn garden to-do list, straight from the pros at USU Extension. Prep Your Lawn for Winter In early fall when...
Daryl Lindsey, who formally launched her Yardfarmer.co sustainable landscape design venture in the fall of 2022, offers her top starting points for creating a productive, manageable and beautiful landscape design.   Tip #1: Look at your yard from the top down. Think about the ways you want to spend...
Want a beautiful garden that does wonderful things? Planting pollinator-friendly gardens will make your yard the buzz of the neighborhood. What if our landscapes could be both eye-catching and support a biodiversity of local pollinators such as bees, butterflies, beetles and more? We don’t often think about pollinators as...

Cool As A Cucumber

Plant them now and enjoy them throughout summer. Cucumbers are a staple for warm-weather party trays, easy-to-make appetizers and simple snacks. With this in mind, Burpee’s crop of new introductions includes a 4-inch, thin-skinned “Party Time” cucumber, perfect for small gardens and mini-cuke dipping. Cucumbers 101 Select cucumbers with uniformly deep green...
Brittan Browning, owner and lead gardener at Gilmer Farms, shares a list of her favorite multi-purpose foliage to fill out your garden beds and spring bouquets. Blooms are the key ingredient for a cutting garden, but growing pros know to never neglect the foliage that make up the foundation...
Replant summer containers with the rich colors of fall and extend their beauty into the season.
To make the most of the season's star, Robert Upwall of Every Blooming Thing offers tips on cutting, preserving and arranging dahlias.
Four quick-n-dirty vegetable and herb varieties that you can get into the ground (or a patio garden box) just in time for spring gardening.
wintertime houseplant care
Expert Melinda Meservy provides some tips for nurturing and caring for houseplants during winter.