Not only does the warm weather we are experiencing right now, make it feel like spring, it feels like summer is right around the corner.
But for all of you that have lived in the Rocky Mountain growing region for some time…you know…there is more cold, snow, rain and freezing temperatures on the way.
For early gardening enthusiasts, let’s stick with the plan for success during the late-March/ early April gardening and landscape care time in the Rocky Mountains.
- Plant only the plants that naturally like to cool weather
- Keep up with watering trees, shrubs and perennials as Mother Nature has not been good to us
- If you haven’t started, this is the time to work on your garden clean up and soil improvement.
Pansies
Pansies, in containers or ground beds are the most colorful annuals to plant this time of the year. They like our bright, cool Colorado conditions and can take some snow and cold! And Creek Side has a beautiful Grown Fresh™ batch blooming and ready for planting now!
In addition to pansies, consider:
- snapdragons
- dianthus
- alyssum
- dusty miller.
- Creek Side will have some available now and more on the way.
Perennials
Perennials are beginning to flower and ready for planting. Creek Side is offering a great selection of Grown Fresh perennials for your early planting season. Columbines, purple Rockcress and Basket of Gold (just to name a few) are all great early spring bloomers.
The Creek Side Grown Fresh™ perennial crop is coming along nicely. Over 400 varieties this year including, many Plant Select varieties, which have been specifically chosen for our climate. Our growing experts are getting them ready for you by setting the plants outside for conditioning to harden them off. The early perennial plants are available to plant now.
Vegetables
Cool season vegetable transplants and seeds may be planted and sown in the next couple of weeks. This group includes broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, kale, lettuce, spinach, carrots, radishes, beets and peas. The ground will have warmed up a little more which will advance their development. Creek Side offers Botanical Interests and Renees seed available now. Plants in pots to transplant are almost ready now as well.
Seed potatoes, onion sets, garlic in the spring bulb department available for planting now.
When we work in concert with Mother Nature, by sticking with the plants that like the cool temperatures and will tolerate some freezing temperatures our efforts will be rewarded and our disappointments will be diminished.
Visit the place “Where Inspiration Grows” to find the very best Grown Fresh pansies, perennial plants and vegetable plants and seeds for your early garden this season.
