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Can or freeze your excess tomatoes

For many of us, gardens produce abundant quantities of tomatoes. There can be too much to eat, and when we start getting sores in our mouths, we know it’s time to stop. But what ...

DATE: Oct 9, 2013 | CATEGORY: From the Extension Office

Apples: From Asia to Buckley Park

The apple. Malus spp. The fruit, synonymous with fall, school teachers Newton’s universal law of gravity, has a past much more storied than what many Americans believed started with Johnny A...

DATE: Oct 2, 2013 | CATEGORY: From the Extension Office

Freeze your abundance of zucchini

Editor’s note: Get Growing, provided by the La Plata County Extension Office’s Master Gardener Program, appears during the growing season. It features timely tips and suggestions for your ga...

DATE: Oct 2, 2013 | CATEGORY: Get Growing

‘Code of the West’ can serve county’s 4-H’ers

The recent storms have caused considerable damage to our great state of Colorado. My thoughts and well wishes go out to all the victims and people affected by the destructive weather. ...

DATE: Sep 25, 2013 | CATEGORY: From the Extension Office

When using the proper recipe, natural cleaners are effective

Homemade cleaners are surfacing more frequently as we are put off by chemicals in our lives. Often touted as natural, eco-friendly and less expensive, safe cleaning can be serio...

DATE: Sep 18, 2013 | CATEGORY: From the Extension Office

Feeling ‘bleh’ about your garden? Plant some bulbs

I enjoy watching my landscape change with the months of the year – bulbs in the spring, flowering shrubs and trees in the early summer, perennials throughout the summer and the vegetable gar...

DATE: Sep 11, 2013 | CATEGORY: From the Extension Office

Get help to harvest tree fruit before hungry bears do

By Darrin Parmenter Typically, you don’t see news about bears in Get Growing. We almost always leave that topic to the experts – Bear Smart Durango and Colorado Parks and Wildlife...

DATE: Sep 4, 2013 | CATEGORY: Get Growing

Celebrate Neighborhood Days with friends

La Plata County is celebrating Neighborhood Days. Neighborhood Days provide our communities the opportunity to meet, reconnect and strengthen the bonds neighbors have with each other. This i...

DATE: Sep 4, 2013 | CATEGORY: From the Extension Office

Time to prepare to preserve tomatoes

“Este paratus.” While we horticulturists sometimes like to wax Latin with our binomial nomenclature, this is not the genus and species of some exotic plant. It translates as “be prepared.” ...

DATE: Aug 28, 2013 | CATEGORY: From the Extension Office

When canning, adjust recipe for altitude

Gardens are now producing because of the monsoon season, and many gardeners are preserving their produce. After seeing many of the canning entries at fairs in La Plata, Montezuma...

DATE: Aug 21, 2013 | CATEGORY: From the Extension Office

Don’t let caterpillars turn your sweet corn harvest bitter

Editor’s note: Get Growing, written by the La Plata County Extension Office’s Master Gardener Program, appears every other week during the growing season. It features timely tips and suggest...

DATE: Aug 21, 2013 | CATEGORY: Get Growing

4-H volunteers, participants make a leader proud

Volunteers are the heart of 4-H. Each year, I am continually grateful and appreciative for the hard work and dedication the La Plata County 4-H volunteers exhibit. This wonderful...

DATE: Aug 13, 2013 | CATEGORY: From the Extension Office