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Urban Farm Colorado installs beautiful, high-yield, organic vegetable gardens in your backyard. www.urbanfarmcolorado.com

Urban Farm Colorado makes it simple to grow your own fresh healthy food right in your backyard. We install high-yield organic vegetable gardens using a great soil mix and easy gardening method that allows new gardeners to grow a lot of food in a small space. After an installation, we provide extensive help and education through the season to ensure that you're successful.

11/09/2020

How did everyone's pre snow harvest go?

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Growing food & medicine at 8,400 ft. Yesterday’s harvest before the snow. 🙏

10/09/2020

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Still really enjoying beetroot harvests! Although, I’m going to be honest with you, I’ve not managed to pickle a single one this year. They’ve all been roasted and devoured before I could even open the pickle jar!
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How have you stored your beetroot? Or have you been gutsy like me, and spared no thought to your future winter self? 😂

08/09/2020

What is Organic Gardening?

The USDA Organic Certification label both helped and hurt organic gardening and farming.

The introduction of the organic certification addressed a growing demand for organic food. It assured quality and created a formalized certification so farmers could sell legitimately “organic” produce in the marketplace.

The certification also defined organic for the general consumer. (In part, the definition says organic food must be grown without sewage, synthetic chemical inputs, or GMO seeds.) On the surface, this sounds like a great thing!

But to an experienced backyard gardener, this definition falls short in explaining what organic growing truly is.

Instead of a list of things that shouldn’t be used, organic growers typically focus on a handful of concepts that should be practiced. Instead of a reactive avoidance of certain farming practices, it’s a proactive effort to promote and enhance biodiversity, biological cycles, and soil biological activity.

When gardeners understand these concepts, pesticides and sewage sludge become non-issues.

Want to learn about an incredible fungus called mycorrhizae and how it is important for Organic Farming? Head to the following link in to learn 3 steps to maintain healthy Mycorrhizal Fungi.
http://bit.ly/what-is-ogranic

06/09/2020

How's your harvest going this so far?

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Today was the best tomato day all season. I feel like me and this little garden have been through it all, and I’ve learned a lot about growing food in a meaningful way. Today’s lesson was that if you stay diligent, if you persevere and remain watchful, every so often there’s a splash abundance as a direct result of your hard work. And this was the trial run 😉

This space, these plants, hot days, mosquitoes,and growing my own food has sustained me I think more than I realized it would.

I could use a haircut however 🤣

05/09/2020

The air is getting colder and fall is just around the corner.

That means it's time to plant some Garlic!

Garlic grows best when planted in the fall.

It is a unique crop that must “vernalize” to produce well. Vernalization happens after prolonged exposure to cold temperatures. In the case of garlic, vernalization initiates the bulbing of the head.

Garlic heads will be more than two times larger if planted in the fall than spring.

Head to the following link for a guide detailing how to plant garlic in the fall!
http://bit.ly/Garlic-Planting

04/09/2020

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In her happy place! ✨She LOVES coming into the garden. We had to put a little lock on the gate so she only comes in when we are in here... otherwise my veggies would never have a chance! 😆 But she always comes running to the garden as soon as she hears the gate opening up.
Her favorite is harvesting, especially the tomatoes and is always so proud to run to daddy to show her basket full of goodies.
I tried to help her with the basket here, but she wasn’t having it. She wanted to do it all by herself!

03/09/2020

Its going to be winter soon!

What do you do with your summer crops and your garden? How do you prepare?

I've created 5 tips to help any urban gardener prepare themselves for Winter!

1. Pull Out All Dead Plant Material
Your warm crops will be the first to die from the cold weather – plants such as tomatoes, basil, peppers, eggplant, cucumbers, beans, and squash. But all of the cold crops should be alive and happy through the month of October. Leave those in the ground and continue to harvest them. Many of the hardy leafy greens will survive until the nighttime temperatures dip into the low 20’s.

We don’t suggest composting dead tomato plants, as they are prone to spread disease from one season to the next.

2. Make Sure to Leave Plants that Will Come Back Next Season

There are TOO MANY plants to list here on this post.

To find out which plants will come back next season, check out this link!
http://bit.ly/Winter-Garden-Tips

02/09/2020

Check out these beautiful pear tomatoes grown by Amber!

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Just wanted to show you my little pear tomatoes 😇

01/09/2020

As I've stated before, soil hydration is very important for a healthy crop. It is also one a factor that we have a high level of control.

Three basic irrigation options for your garden:

1. By Hand - Watering by hand is a great option if you’re willing and able to do it every day.

2. Grass Sprinklers - The sprinklers watering your bluegrass can also water your garden if your bed is in the middle of the yard.

3. Drip Irrigation - There's more to say about drip irrigation than will fit into one post.

Head to the following link to learn more about drip irrigation, grass sprinklers, and watering by hand!
http://bit.ly/irrigation-tips

30/08/2020

This little coriander seedling is just so cute and picture perfect!

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Coriander is a great herb to be sowing and planting this time of year to give harvests up to the first frosts.
What are you sowing and planting this week?

29/08/2020

Storage crops can last through the entire winter, allowing you to eat from your garden in the coldest months.

I've created a guide to teach you how to store the following vegetables:

• Beets, Carrots, and Turnips
• Potatoes
• Winter Squash
• Onions

(Head to this link to learn how to store these vegetables http://bit.ly/short-123)

What crops are you planning on storing for this winter?

28/08/2020

This greenhouse is absolutely gorgeous! And it has our mouths watering too! What do you think? Would you like to read a book in this space?

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The greenhouse transitioning from summer to autumn.
Tomatoes have gone, but the cucumber and chillies remain. I’m absolutely loving the sunflowers too🌻 .....spot my red wine 🧐

27/08/2020

Do you see colorful beetles in your garden attacking your plants and skeletonizing leaves? It could be either harlequin bugs or Japanese beetles – both relatively new to our area.

What is a harlequin bug?

Harlequin bugs are black stink bugs that are marked with bright orange and red spotting. As of a few years ago, they were only found in Southern Colorado, but they are becoming increasingly familiar here in Boulder and Denver as their range moves north. Harlequin bugs are most destructive to cabbage, kale, and chard, but it’s possible to find them on any plants in your garden. They suck the sap out of plant foliage, leaving white and brown spotting.

What is a Japanese beetle?

Japanese beetles are iridescent green beetles with brown wings. They tend to attack tomatoes, beans, grape vines, roses, and certain trees, but they can be found eating lots of different plants. They eat the leaf parts between the veins (skeletonizing the leaf surface) and can cause enough damage to severely stunt and even kill plants.

If you want to know how to get rid of these bugs, head to following link!
http://bit.ly/Harlequin-bug

26/08/2020

We love how vibrant and abundant these cherry tomatoes are!

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Ready for - Guess I’m making more sun-dried tomatoes and roasted pasta sauce then 🤷🏻‍♀️
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The cherry tomatoes are ridiculously prolific, but they’re also short lived. The skins of some of these had already split by the time I got home! Time to cook them up so nothing more goes to waste 🍅

25/08/2020

Do you see irregular holes and smooth bites out of the leaves in your garden? And silvery “slime” trails on the leaves of your plants?

You likely have slugs or snails in your garden.

In the spring of 2015, we saw more slugs and snails in Urban Farm Co. gardens than we ever had seen before. Slugs and snails both thrive under high moisture conditions, so all the rain we had throughout April and May brought with it a boom in the slug population.

Slug injury to plants is sometimes difficult to diagnose because slugs hide during the day. But if left alone, slugs or snails can devastate an entire vegetable crop in just a few weeks. They prefer tender, leafy crops, but will eat just about anything. Smaller leaves may be eaten entirely while only the edges of larger leaves may be eaten. The presence of slime trails usually is the best indication of slug activity. You may also be able to find slugs hiding on the underside of leaves (especially early in the morning or late in the evening).

Want to know three ways to get rid of slugs? Head to the following link to learn how!
http://bit.ly/slug-damage

22/08/2020

Is it too late to plant this year?

Some crops, like garlic, can be planted as late as Thanksgiving.

What can still be planted while it's hot?

Leafy Greens and Root vegetables!

Right now, I'd plant radishes and turnips and sugar snap peas. Kale and collard greens are good too!

The best time to plant lettuce or spinach is when the temperature starts to dip.

Are any of you anticipating planting for the late summer and fall?

21/08/2020

One amazing way to engage with your garden, learn more from your plants, and save a little money is to save your own seed at the end of the season!

Most people think that seed saving is very difficult, that it takes years of practice, many special tools, and diligent hand pollinating. For some crops that is true, but there are many vegetables out there that are easy and relatively foolproof to save seeds on. All you need is a little patience and good observation!

Great reasons to save your own seed are:

• Save money! On a garden scale, even one plant will provide enough seed for you (and your neighbors) next season, so you won't have to buy new seed year after year.
• Adapt your seed to your own environment! When plants grow, they slowly adapt to their particular micro-environments, whether your garden is in high altitude, has cold nights, or is particularly hot and exposed. The plants store those learned environmental adaptations in the genetics of their seed offspring, so over time you’ll begin to get plants that are better designed for your particular garden.
• Learn something new about your garden! Watching a plant go to seed and harvesting the seed to save for next year is a wonderful way to engage more deeply with your garden and to learn about the different plant varieties that you grow.

Here are 4 vegetable crops that you can save seed on this year, without much work and with great chances for success:

1. Lettuce (Lactuca sativa)
2. Beans (Phaseolus vulgaris)
3. Tomatoes (Solamun lycopersicum)
4. Peppers (Capsicum annuum)

Head to the following link for an in depth seed-saving guide for each of these 4 plants.
https://bit.ly/save-your-seed

20/08/2020

Houseplant Soil Moisture:

How do you know if your house plants are getting enough water?

The number one mistake in house plants is not enough sunlight.

The second biggest mistake is not enough water, or too much water.

I like to use these watering cones. They can help keep soil the right consistency: Like a rung out sponge.

Watch the video and let us know what you think!

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We believe growing your own food is the most powerful act of self-sufficiency, idealism, and craftsmanship.

It’s an elegant solution to the complex question of what to eat. A perfect combination of physical, tangible, rewarding, and delicious, gardening is an experience that everyone deserves.

Our goal is to empower thousands of people to start growing food in their backyard.

Instead of spending years figuring out the details, we aim to make gardening easier and more fun.