Every year I have a small problem with thrips. It seems like they emerge a couple of weeks before their predators do. Thrips are those tiny little vampire gnat-like things that suck the blood out of your roses and make thier poor little heads droop. You can’t see them without a magnifying glass, but you […]
It was a little overwhelming moving from a house with a lot of structure in the yard to a completely blank canvas. Well, OK. It wasn’t completely blank. In the back yard, there was a raised area inside of landscaping timbers but it was all grass. There were also two Live Oak trees, but they […]
Natural Organic Home Garden Health Howard Garrett Dirt Doctor – Sick Tree Treatment. Sick Tree Treatment Step 1: Stop Using High Nitrogen Fertilizers and Toxic Chemical Pesticides Toxic chemical pesticides kill beneficial nematodes, other helpful microbes, good insects, and also control the pest insects poorly. Synthetic fertilizers are unbalanced, harsh, high in salt, often contaminated […]
The best solution for black spot is to get roses that are so vigorous that they aren’t susceptible. There are plenty out there, but if you get a rose that succumbs to black spot that you just can’t give up on (and who hasn’t?) then there are several things you can do : Keep water […]
Composting is definitely worth the effort. You can buy some pretty fancy composters and I have a tumbling style that was given to me, but I haven’t really been pleased with any of the commercially available ones. At the Grapevine Botanical Gardens at Heritage Park (on Ball St.), the Gaylord Texan has donated a demonstration […]
Natural Organic Home Garden Health Howard Garrett Dirt Doctor – Acceptable & Unacceptable Products in an Organic Program Don’t know what is or isn’t safe to use in an organic program? This will tell you.
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