October Garden Questions and Answers
October Garden Questions and Answers. Includes tomatoes not setting fruit, tomato plants turning brown and drying up and spraying to get rid of oxalis and other weeds. Q. I'm an avid reader of your column. I had a problem with my beefsteak tomato ... [... more]
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November: Garden Questions and Answers
Q. I've always heard that one shouldn't mow the lawn so early that it's still wet from dew or soon after it rains. My problem is that my home must be the first stop for my new gardener in that he often is at my house at 7:45 a.m. Should I request ... [... more]
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Garden Questions & Answers
Q. I don't do much gardening, but I do grow my own tomatoes, squash and cantaloupe. Last summer, aphids wiped out my melons. It was really bad. How to I avoid a repeat this summer? A. You fight aphids anyway you can. Aphids are sucking insects ... [... more]
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Garden Questions & Answers for June
Have a garden question? I'll be glad to answer in a future column! Q. My 8-year-old doesn't eat many vegetables, but carrots are one that she enjoys. I've planted carrots in the past, but they always turn out stumpy or misshapen. Is there any way ... [... more]
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April Garden Questions and Answers
Q. We would like a tree that won't grow too big and make an interesting addition in front of a gardening shed. Maximum height should be no more than 20 feet. And, of course, there are foundations, and water and sewer pipes in the area to ... [... more]
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June Garden Questions & Answers
June Garden Questions & Answers: whiteflies, epsom salt rose fertilizer recipe, ant control. Q. Whiteflies are hanging out on my poppies. What A. Whiteflies used to be an overwhelming problem You can use insecticidal soap or a chemical It will ... [... more]
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Garden Questions and Answers
Garden questions and answers. Tomatoes, white flies, and bacterial canker on apricot trees. Q. My tomato plants are growing great guns, but are starting to spill over and spread across the ground. I know I should buy those wire tomato cages, but ... [... more]
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September Garden Questions and Answers
September garden questions and answers include: algerian ivy, rats and snails; sweet peas; nitrate and other forms of fertilizers, including fish emulsion. Q. I was about to plant our back slope with large-leafed Algerian ivy when a neighbor ... [... more]
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September Garden Questions & Answers
September Garden Questions & Answers include preventing pets from urinating on lawns, what to do; how to prepare garden soil and dealing with fungus diseases on apples. Q. Our new dog has taken to "doing his thing" on our backyard lawn. We' [... more]
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February Garden Questions and Answers
February Garden Questions and Answers include ant recipe using boric acid to rid your home of ants, and using vinegar to neutralize salt build-up in houseplants. Q. Ants, ants and more ants. It's obvious from a question that I answered recently ... [... more]
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July Garden Questions and Answers
July Garden Questions and Answers. Includes how to get rid of ants on artichokes, detering grasshoppers and a good gardening book for western gardeners. Q. I had my first meal of artichokes yesterday. There were ants and aphids in large numbers ... [... more]
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November Garden Questions and Answers
November Garden Questions and Answers: Using fireplace ashes in your garden, beans without pods and a Raywood ash die off. Q. My husband and I enjoyed your article regarding composting. Can you use ashes from the fireplace in the composter? A. In ... [... more]
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