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Fertilizing impatiens
Posted by Rose Greenman | June 19, 2014I have planted lots of impatiens and they are not blooming. Should I be fertilizing them?
Dead crabapple tree
Posted by Rose Greenman | June 19, 2014Last year, I planted a small crabapple tree. This year it looks very dry and the pods on the branches look dry. I took a piece to a nursery and they said to wait until August for any kind of bloom to show. I personally think the tree is dead. What should I do?
Why is my garden not producing?
Posted by BSLeith | June 18, 2014My garden is in north central Florida. We added compost and black cow to the soil this year, along with all-purpose fertilizer, lime, and ironrite. Still, my garden is not producing. The staked tomatoes are tall with very few blooms. The summer squash is bushy. It had blooms but no squash, and the blooms fall off. Cucumbers vined with few ...
Picture of the weed that is taking over my garden
Posted by Nancy Bos | June 18, 2014For the mystery plant that is taking over, here's a wider perspective.
Mystery plant taking over my garden
Posted by Nancy Bos | June 18, 2014What have I done? In January I reinvented a long neglected bedâperhaps 20 or more years of neglectâand removed 3 inches of soil and weeds to discover old stepping stones. When it was done I was so pleased with how it looked: Red Flowering Currents (treeform), irises, trillium, and new bark. But in May some surprise plants showed up, and ...
Slug-killing spray
Posted by Jeri Williams | June 18, 2014In the Tacoma paper on Wednesday, June 18th, you gave the instructions of 1/3 ammonia and 1/3 water put into a spray bottle for slug-killing spray. Is there another 1/3 of something, or is it a 50/50 solution?
Slug spray recipe
Posted by maxine hallmeyer | June 18, 2014The article in today's paper says make your own slug-killing spray with 1/3 ammonia and 1/3 water. What is the other third in this spray?
Typo in slug spray recipe
Posted by Sharon Kirry | June 18, 2014In the New Tribune your slug recipe said 1/3 ammonia, 1/3 water. What is the last 1/3?
Recipe for slug-killing spray
Posted by Linda Holeman | June 18, 2014Tacoma Tribune article on 6/18/2014 had a recipe for a spray slug killer that was 1/3 ammonia and 1/3 water, what is the other third of the recipe?
Transplanting irises
Posted by sandra Sanfilippo | June 18, 2014When can I transplant irises, and what is the best technique?
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