Fire-Resistive Landscaping in Truckee / Tahoe

Fire-Resistive Landscaping in Truckee / Tahoe

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....
Are We Essential?

Are We Essential?

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...

Rain on Snow

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...
Mid Season Planting – July/August

Mid Season Planting – July/August

In the Mountain Nursery business the season starts when it starts: when the snow melts and we’ve had a reasonable period of time to recover from the last hard frost or heavy snow (usually early May to mid-May). The busy season goes until the 4th of July when the...
Organics and Soil Fertility

Organics and Soil Fertility

We’ve mentioned so frequently that our native soils are not so great. Our “topsoil” is what most other gardeners or farmers would consider poor mineral subsoil. The 100 or so local soil tests I’ve seen or had done over the decades have all...

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