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Best evergreen hedges for partial sun
Posted by Paula Doldan | June 19, 2014I would like to plant a shrub in front of my home. I used to have 6-foot-tall hedge to block the road, but it's been torn down to widen the road. They replaced it with 3-feet hedges, and all but one are now dying. There is partial sun in front until noon. I have lived in this house my whole ...
Brown aloe vera
Posted by Desiree Nichols | June 19, 2014 | Marianne's FavoriteHow do I get my aloe vera plants to turn from brown to green?
Bolting broccoli
Posted by Rose Greenman | June 19, 2014I planted broccoli and they are already starting to bolt. What am I doing wrong? I never get a large head of broccoli.
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?
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