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Year-Round Gardening: Fruit-bearing shrubs easy to grow

Shrubs that bear small fruits can be a great addition to your garden. These can include currants, gooseberries, chokecherries, plums, jostaberries and service berries. Whether you grow them to eat or simply to provide a feast for birds, they are easy to grow and well adapted to our climate. Besides edible fruit, the bloom can be beautiful. These shrubs will do best in full to part sun. They prefer fertile, well-drained soil, with a pH of 6-7; however they will tolerate more alkaline soils. These are shrubs that can be grown at higher altitudes (although plums will not produce well above 7,500 feet). Fruit production will be best if several plants of one kind are planted nearby.

Year-Round Gardening: Be sure to match your plant selection to light conditions

Year-Round Gardening: Be sure to match your plant selection to light conditions
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Year-Round Gardening: A guide to shrub-pruning techniques

Pruning deciduous shrubs is essential to keep them looking their best. Pruning is done to maintain or reduce plant size, remove undesirable growth, remove dead, diseased or broken branches, stimulate flowering, and rejuvenate and restore old plants and shape. The best time to prune depends on the type of shrub. Summer-flowering shrubs bloom on the current year’s growth. Prune these shrubs in late winter or early spring. Spring-flowering shrubs bloom on last year’s growth and should be pruned immediately after flowering. Those that are healthy and well-maintained should require only light to moderate pruning. Shrubs with insignificant flowers can be pruned in late winter or early spring.

Year-round gardening: It s time to eradicate noxious weed posing as a pretty plant

You might be harboring a noxious weed disguised as a pretty plant. Myrtle spurge (Euphorbia myrsinites), also known as donkey tail spurge, was once planted as a waterwise ornamental plant but has escaped from the confines of the garden to become a List A noxious weed. The Colorado Department of Agriculture, through a legislative process, declares plants noxious weeds when they become invasive and threaten either wildlands or agriculture. Myrtle spurge reduces habitat for native plants and the pollinators and other animals that depend on them. Because myrtle spurge is found in the wild in relatively small populations, there’s still an opportunity to keep the plant from spreading out of control (unlike in Utah, where it covers thousands of acres). List A weeds are subject to eradication wherever they’re found, regardless of land ownership (including private properties).

Year-round gardening: Here s your to-do list for March in Colorado

There’s always plenty to do in the garden during March. This year, because of a dramatic temperature drop last fall, the to-do list will be even longer. Temperatures plummeted from 58 degrees one day to 12 degrees the next. The weather changed so rapidly that deciduous trees might not have transitioned normally through the two-stage process of dormancy and chilling. As we move into spring, the lingering effects of that cold snap will become apparent. Signs of freeze damage will be black, shriveled shoots or buds. Prune the dead twigs and branches; do not fertilize. Conifers revealed damage immediately after the sudden weather change. If your trees were affected, they will show signs of scorching with needle tips that turned white, gray, silver or straw-colored. The freeze-burned needles will not green; however, over time, new needles will mask the damaged ones.

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