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Front Range of Colorado
Here are articles on things like how to start seeds indoors and outdoors, where to start if you’ve never grown a garden before, and my experiences growing on the Front Range of Colorado. Click links on the index, or scroll down to browse the whole blog feed.
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Beginners
- Mar 30, 2020 Site observation, selection, and planning (part 1)
- Apr 3, 2020 Site preparation, raised beds, and how to fill them (Part 2)
- May 4, 2020 Tomato Terminology
- May 6, 2020 How to get plants for your garden (part 3)
- May 12, 2020 When to plant outside (part 4)
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Gardening
- Mar 29, 2020 Welcome to The Inspired Sprout
- Apr 29, 2020 How to harden off your plants
- Aug 30, 2020 What have I been up to? Update
- Aug 30, 2020 Fall Planting
- Sep 3, 2020 Protecting the garden from a light freeze
- Jan 26, 2024 2023 in Review: Tomatoes
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Preserving the Harvest
- Sep 10, 2020 Preserving tomatoes: freezing
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Seed Starting
- Apr 14, 2020 Seed Starting Equipment
- Apr 22, 2020 Seed Starting Part 2
- Apr 22, 2020 Seed Starting - After Germination
- Mar 9, 2024 Seed Starting - Dense Planting Method
- Mar 20, 2025 What to Plant in March: Front Range of Colorado
- Mar 23, 2025 What to Plant in April: Front Range of Colorado
2023 in Review: Tomatoes
The 2023 tomato year was largely a success. It was our second growing season since moving to this house, and we were building on the progress made in 2022. In 2022, it was a scramble to get everything ready to plant. We’d begun work on landscaping, moved two raised beds from a distant spot in the yard closer to the house, and filled the beds before planting them. In 2023 we were rushing to install drip irrigation before we went on vacation in June. It all worked out and 2023 was the first year things could somewhat run on autopilot after the initial Spring work.
Preserving tomatoes: freezing
Some years, I have the time and energy to preserve tomatoes by canning, but ever since we got a deep freeze several years back, I find myself opting to freeze more often than not. So today I’m going to share with you this super easy, time saving technique I’ve been using for years. Bonus soup recipe at the end!
Tomato Terminology
Here’s a glossary of terminology for those of you that have ever found yourselves wondering what certain words that are used to describe tomatoes and tomato plants mean.