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Thornless blackberries
Posted by Diane King | June 29, 2020How do you get large plump berries, plants are healthy lots of foliage. Also, sometimes there's pink spots on the berries, what causes this? Thank you.
2020 and no colors
Posted by Jen Creech | June 29, 2020I planted 8 camellias, 3 rhododendrons, 2 Ms Kim Lilac shrubs, 1 snowball, and 4 hydrangeas about 4 months ago. I got blooms on 1 rhodie for about 2 weeks; same with lilacs; 2 bloomson snowball, and nothing on the peacock or flames NGO hydrangea. Is it just 2020, 1st yr after transplant? Or am I really a black thumb?
Thank you
Posted by Susan36 | June 29, 2020Thank you for all your help and answering my questions. I have to say I owe my gardening skills to you. I have listened to almost all your u tube videos, attended your lectures and read every column in the TNT for the past four years. I even started saving the articles and labeling by subject to make searching for ...
Osmocote
Posted by Joe Jacovino | June 26, 2020What is the life of the product? Can I use it on fig trees?
Crimson Japanese Maple
Posted by William Zaremba | June 26, 2020Why is my leaves on the tree look like there turning orange and drying up?
Crimson Japanese maple
Posted by William Zaremba | June 26, 2020Is osmocote plus outdoor and indoor good to use on this tree? I read recommending organic fertilizer is suggested.
What is wrong with my lilac bush?
Posted by Leann Stites | June 26, 2020I planted a new hearty lilac bush in May. It’s been doing great but I noticed recently there are several leaves with these brown spots. I removed what I found but it seems to be spreading. Any help is greatly appreciated. I don’t know if it’s bug or bacteria! ?!?!
What is this plant?
Posted by Kathy Wilson | June 26, 2020Any idea what this plant is? It’s in the Pt. Defiance perennial beds. It’s about 7 feet tall and as I recall the leaves are a basal rosette.
Used Fish Fertilizer and now this happened
Posted by Virginia Alfaro | June 26, 2020I mixed a liquid fish fertilizer 2 tblsp to 1 gallon of water and used on burpee tomatoe plants, roses, coleus, fuschia, impatiens....the roses and tomatoe are in the ground the others in pots. I’d used Sevin 5 powder on roses and tomatoes about 2 weeks prior, and had been using miracle grow fertilizer mixed in water to correct proportions ...
Summer Squash Leaves Turning Yellow
Posted by Megan Hollis | June 26, 2020I planted summer squash for the first time this year after reading it was an easy urban garden vegetable. I admittedly made the mistake of planting them too close together, but they seem to be doing fine excepts some leaves have turned yellow and some have even wilted completely and turned brown. I have done a lot of research and ...
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