[caption id="attachment_2985" align="alignleft" width="150"] By Carol O’MearaColorado StateUniversity Extension[/caption] In a time when water is low and worries are high, anguished gardeners watch helplessly as cherished plants succumb to drought: trees that shaded generations of family, heirloom flowers from ancestral lands, and perennial beds are withered and brown.  We need help, we need heroes; we need Superman.  Just in time, he’s back. Though things looked dire, our Superman didn’

[caption id="attachment_2985" align="alignleft" width="150"] By Carol O’MearaColorado StateUniversity Extension[/caption] In an annual emergence in spring, the queens are awakening, shrugging off a winter’s sleep with conquest on their minds.  They’re strong, hungry, and looking for real estate in which to build a nest – probably under your porch, your patio, or in the rock walls of the raised garden. Yellow jackets are beginning their year, and to keep your yard from the black and yell