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Saturday, June 24, 2023

Palm Fronds Falling From Mexican Fan Palm. Wrong!

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Q. I see palm trees with the fronds falling off all around our Sun City McDonald Ranch as on our daily walks. Was wondering if this is part ...

Is the Western Fence Lizard Vegetarian or Omnivorous?

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Q. Will the Western fence lizards that took up residence in our yard 2 or 3 years ago and ate our tomatoes. Or has it been something else?  ...

Calcium Deficiency of Tomato and Blossom End Rot

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Q. I wanted to ask about a strange occurrence in my tomato garden. Not all, but some of my tomatoes when they ripen, have these black spots ...
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Sucker Control Under a Wall

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Q. My neighbor's tree is sending out suckers that go under my cinder block wall and come out in my planter. I try to pull them out and s...

White Fuzzy Problem Solved

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Q. What are those “white fuzzies” on the stems of tomato, peppers, beans, and even outdoor landscape plants? White fuzzies (as I call them) ...

Size of Trees and Root to Shoot Ratios

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Q. I have a large old 40-foot oleander tree. Every year as it begins to flower, some of the leaves turn yellow and drop. I realize I may nee...

Ash Decline (Disease). Or is it?

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Q. What might be happening to our ash trees? We noticed that a couple of our ash trees are not doing well at all.   I did a quick google sea...

Roots of Plants Vary in Depth

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Q. How deep are plant roots? Plant roots vary in depth from less than 12 inches to more than three feet. Large trees are watered to the deep...

Stake Wires Will Strangle a Tree If Left Too Long

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Q. I have a tree that was staked and now the wires used in staking it are starting to strangle the tree trunk. Staking trees are for a numbe...

Cracks in Tomatoes

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Q. What causes cracks in the tomatoes near the top where the stem is? I have also seen some of my tomatoes with very deep cracks. Let me kno...
Friday, June 16, 2023

Attracting Honeybees into a Garden Landscape

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Q. I’ve been trying to attract bees to my garden and thinking about a hive at some point. Need to put in some year-round flowering plants fi...

Vegetable Growing in Moapa and Virgin Valley Southern Nevada

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  Requests for Dr. Witwer’s information on raised bed gardening, his “Bible” I call it, overwhelmed and surprised me. I just finished sendin...

Plants Grow Toward Light

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Q. I pulled out my old, bent crepe myrtle and bought a new one from a grower. It's still small, but I noticed the "trunk" is a...
Saturday, March 25, 2023

Both Nitrogen and Iron Fertilizers Contribute to Dark Green Plant Color

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Q. Thanks to your previous advice I used an iron chelate, applied it to the soil in March, and got my plants to develop a dark green color r...

Pine Trees Don't Need as Much Fertilizer as Fruit Trees

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  Pine trees in the desert do not need as much fertilizer as fruit trees. We don't expect as much from them as we do fruit trees. Q. I h...
Friday, March 24, 2023

Winter Cold Damage and Freezes

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Oleander after a strong freeze. This is the time of year, the second week of December, we normally experience the start of freezing temperat...