r/DenverGardener

Attempting to crowdsource any thoughts on where I might scavenge a couple of tomatillos. Anyone have starters they’ll sell? Any stores still peddling the last few sad specimens? I fell victim to a pill bug infestation (never in my life have they been an issue here! Here’s to the climate apocalypse… 🫠) and lost some.

I know we’re past our prime on these, but tomatillos are amongst my favorites. Sadly, these perished from seeds I’d saved from last year.

I just bought some diatomaceous earth and am crossing my fingers….

I love my hollyhocks, but every year just as they start going full bloom, the Japanese beetles find them. I end up having to cut them all down or risk that the beetles will get a hold of everything else in my garden.
They are great at attracting bees and pollinators in general. They thrive on neglect, but they also seem to attract so many of these little fuggers that i have to go scorched earth.
Anyone have a solution so i dont have to?

Prefacing this with I am a terrible gardener so please give suggestions that even a dummy like me can execute.

I have two dogs that LOVE to run up and down the fence barking at neighbors anytime they detect movement on the other side. I need some sort of plant that blocks their view to the other side. I don't much care if it's a grass, a shrub, or something else but I would prefer one that is not attractive to rabbits or stinging insects because my dog can and will catch them. Full-to-partial sun. Willing to wait on planting it if this is a bad season.

Now that a lot of nurseries are beginning to discount their stock, I (perhaps unwisely) purchased Amelanchier alnifolia 'Obelisk' (Standing Ovation serviceberry), Ribes aureum (golden currant), and Arctostaphylos x coloradensis (mock bearberry manzanita).

Should I plant them now, or keep them in the nursery pots and plant them in the fall? I feel like I'll be babying them in this heat either way, but what is my best chance for success? They'll be on the northwest side of my house, so they will receive a lot of morning shade (and possibly even some in the early afternoon).

Totally revamping my garden and would like to find cheap/free broken tiles to line my path and raised beds. Thanks!!

I would get a plant, not seeds, but am I too late? I have a raised bed with full sun most of the day.

We are tearing out half our back lawn this coming week to prep for planting dogtuff in 3 weeks time.

It’s a good spot that will get good sun, so no worries there, and we’re doing half now/half later so the dog still has a place to play and nap and frolic.

This was the only times we could the work due to commitments, but apart from the timing if anyone has any advice we would love to hear it!!

Mine are yarrow and valerian in the sun and hosta in the shade. Everything else is just iffy.