Fall Planting / Autumn Gardening Start gardening at the first sign of spring? Naw. September and October are months to accomplish the most important gardening tasks before winter settles in. MOST of next year’s garden success depends upon the care your garden is...
Essential Woody Mulch in Truckee / Tahoe Landscapes 2024A brief missive on the reasons that mulching over our poor mineral soils in this very dry Mediterranean climate, in the rain-shadow of the Sierras is so...
Tree Winterizing PDF: Tree Winterizing 2022 •) Improving the odds – It is often little things we do in our gardens that slightly (or greatly) increase the odds of our plants surviving and thriving. Know that, in nature, on the dry side of the Sierras, one in a...
We desperately need fuels reduction work throughout and all around our community. USFS and Tahoe Donner have been doing some terrific projects in quite a few outlying, surrounding locations but we need a great deal IN town, especially open spaces and public lands....
This year we cut fewer trees and brought in a few less from local sources and Oregon farms and the trees are leaving faster than usual. For decades, we’d sell just 15-20% of our fresh-cut trees before Dec 18 (or so) and then when the second-home owners and...
September in Truckee is Summer AND Fall. Most of us have LONG considered Labor Day the official start of Local’s Summer. In this summer of the COVID… who knows. We have not written a blog-post since April and we’ve yet to send out a nursery newsletter (who needs...
Barley It is with great sadness I let you know that one of our big cats, Barley, passed-away suddenly on July 8, at the young age of twelve. He was, by all appearances, fine one day and two days later he was gone. He ATE everything (organic fertilizers, houseplants,...
April in Truckee and Tahoe teases us. While it is a GREAT time to plant wildflowers, hardy vegetables and herbs, over-wintered dormant plants from the nursery, it is too cold to bring in trees and shrubs from warmer climes that have leaves. April’s average...
Here is why… IMHO: Majestic Silvertip
What a year, weather-wise. It finally stopped snowing in late June and we had snow and lows in the single digits by early September. November was largely kind of nice, for a winter month. When we received snows they were very cold. Unless you turned your irrigation...
