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Betty Cahill

Betty Cahill

Betty Cahill speaks and writes about gardening in the Rocky Mountain Region. Visit her site at for even more gardening tips.

September is the right month to pull root vegetables, bring in the last of the green tomatoes, put plant-sale perennials in the ground and give your grass lawn a head start on next year's growth.

Colorado Garden to-do list for September 2014: Plant, aerate, harvest!

April 27, 2016 at 1:17 a.m.

Colorado Garden to-do list for September 2014: Plant, aerate, harvest!

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Colorado Garden to-do list for Aug. 22-30

August 22, 2014 at 8:27 p.m.

Colorado Garden to-do list for Aug. 22-30

The Japanese beetle.

Colorado Garden to-do list, Aug. 15-22: Share the garden’s bounty

April 27, 2016 at 2:42 a.m.

Colorado Garden to-do list, Aug. 15-22: Share the garden's bounty

A tiger swallowtail butterfly drinks the nectar of a native bee balm plant.

Colorado Garden to-do list, Aug. 8-14: Tomato woes, earwigs and tree care

April 27, 2016 at 3:50 a.m.

Colorado Garden to-do list, Aug. 8-14: Tomato woes, earwigs and tree care

Spots and holes in a Principe Borghese heirloom tomato plant could be one of several tomato diseases that unusually wet weather has plaguing Colorado vegetable gardens.

Colorado garden to-do list, Aug. 1: Fight early blight on tomatoes

April 27, 2016 at 1:02 a.m.

Colorado garden to-do list, Aug. 1: Fight early blight on tomatoes

Peppers love the late-summer heat - and don't need a lot of fussing or fertilizer.

Colorado Garden to-do list, July 25-Aug. 1: Keep cool, fight pests

April 26, 2016 at 11:27 p.m.

Colorado Garden to-do list, July 25-Aug. 1: Keep cool, fight pests

Rabbits' population goes through normal and highly localized swings. To thwart them, the most surefire way is to exclude them with a fence.

Garden to-do list for July 11-17: Fight rabbits, nurture tomatoes

April 26, 2016 at 11:32 p.m.

Garden to-do list for July 11-17: Fight rabbits, nurture tomatoes

Cool-season vegetables like radishes, carrots, turnips and beets (above) will tolerate a light frost and can be planted in mid- to late-summer for a fall harvest.

Colorado garden to-do list, July 4-10

April 27, 2016 at 4:08 a.m.

Colorado garden to-do list, July 4-10

Mark Overton, a service technician for Schaefer Lawn Sprinklers Inc., repairs a sprinkler system head at a Denver home, while their French bulldog, Rocket Man, watches.

Colorado Garden to-do list for June 27-July 4

April 27, 2016 at 1:46 a.m.

Colorado Garden to-do list for June 27-July 4

The garlic you planted last fall will be ready for harvest along the Front Range in the next few weeks.

Colorado Garden to-do list for June 20-26

April 27, 2016 at 1:14 a.m.

Colorado Garden to-do list for June 20-26