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Tips to help you get your gardening groove on: A list of links

June 11, 11:54 AMDenver Flower and Gardening ExaminerColleen Smith
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We’re 10 days from Summer Solstice, but in Metro Denver, it feels more like October.

If you have not yet done your planting, this extended spring extends a second chance. I don’t remember a spring so cool and overcast and rainy. Many plants are languishing, waiting for warmer days.

To help you get your gardening groove on, here are links to some of my entries offering specific tips:

Tips on planting easy-to-grow herbs that will enrich your life in and out of the garden.

Tips on ridding your gardens of slugs.

Tips on garden fountains.

A tip on free, hands-on compost classes.

A tip on getting rid of spider mites with integrated pest management.

Tips on how to use all that mint in your garden.

A tip on moving plants.

Tips on how to invite butterflies to your gardens.

A tip on what sorts of pots to buy for container gardening.

Tips on attracting hummingbirds to your gardens.

A tip on how to get free garden seeds.

A tip on how to be kind to bees.

Easy tips for organizing your garden—but not too much.

A tip on why you might need to water even when we have rain.

A tip on why watering cans are worthwhile.

A tip on why tablecloth weights are a wonderful garden gadget.

Tips on adding glass to your garden.

Tips on how empty plastic buckets are full of potential for garden duty.

A tip on an easy, inexpensive way to keep birds out of your produce.

Tips to help hailstoned plants.

A tip on an ideal, easy-to-apply organic fertilizer.

A tip on an easy, organic way to fend off fungus gnats.

A tip on keeping tomato worms off your vines.

Tips to help you conserve water.

Tips on Buck roses as an ideal plant.

A tip on dressing up plain plastic containers.

Tips on creating instant architectural impact easily and inexpensively.

Tips on 10 plants to perfume your gardens.

A tip on creating an easy, frugal garden folly that reflects well upon you and your garden.

Tips on bearded iris.

Photos by Quincy Benton

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