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....
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...
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...
Q. How do I maximize growth and vigor of all the plants in my High-Sierra, mountain garden? This was a recent question… wow. there is really no short answer. I might say: “Plant very well, fertilize like crazy, mulch like crazy, water like crazy and prune...
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...
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...
