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I Need Gardening Advice!!
My first suggestion will be contact your local County Extension Agent to see if there's a Master Gardener group wherever you are. They'll have advise that ...
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- I have a survival of the fittest concept.... Hard Prune everything!! After Feb. 14, (grandma wives tale!) Then decide out of what lives to care for!!!
- Ok, I am no expert but here goes. You mulch the plants in your planters. That protects them from freezing. If you are economically challenged like the rest of us, y...
- Talk to the folks at Natural Gardener. They give lots of free advice.
Gardening Opinion
Call 1-800-AKSUGA1 (Cooperative Extension) and find a Master Gardener in your area. Their services are FREE. They are volunteers who need to accumulate ...
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- Make pictures of your house and landscaping (front, side & back). Print out in 8X10 on your computer. Take them to somewhere like Pikes or a merchant that has knowle...
- Hi L., I love your unusual name! I am an avid perennial gardener. I live in Woodstock. My builder did a terrible job on the backyard landscaping. I had soggy Bermud...
- I would talk to someone at a local nursery about what will work in your climate, soil, sun/shade, root systems and so on. Also, you could probably find some good info...
Seeking a Reputable Landscaper
I'm a Master Gardener in Palo Alto, and I occasionally do small garden designs and installs. I'm a mother of a 9 year old, so I only work mornings and early ...
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- I have a good one in Palo Alto. S.
- I recomend Mark Crase from Leapfrog Lanscaping and Design. He has helped me with some work I did at my kids elementary school, Willow Glen Elementary. He did a great...
- We used a wonderful woman named Heidi Merry. Her business is called Misty Rainbow and she did a beautiful job with our yard and the yards of two of our friends. Her ...
Would like to Start Garden
An idea that I had is to find a Master Gardener. They are a group of people that has taken all the gardening classes that extension offers and they are now ...
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- Contact the Texas A&M Extension Center in Richardson, (Cambell Road I think-it's in the phone book under county blue pages) They have an entire gardening program you ...
- Hi J.- Go to Calloway's Nursery. They will not charge you for advice. They have experts there that can tell you exactly what you need. Also, one great thing abou...
- The best advice I could give you is to go to a gardening store - the ones I like are Calloways and Home Depot. Usually the people whoo work there are pretty knowledgea...
Does Anyone Have Any Advice for Growing a Small Vegetable Garden?
I am a Bexar County Master Gardener and I developed a passion for growing things by keeping it a fun learning experience. You can always head to the Austin ...
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- I like containers. Get a "garden soil" mix from walmart, home depot...anyplace like that. It generally has the fertilizer in it already, good for 3 months, which is ...
- Hey there. Start with your basic soil and add MiracleGro (or whatever the latest fertilizer is. Follow instructions on each packet, but basic rule of thumb is to pla...
- My kids and I have done this with very little expectation and fine results. We just tilled up the soil (pull up all the weeds and grass and get the dirt loose) in a s...
Outside Hanging Plant
If you want to find out what kind of plant you have, take a couple of healthy leaves, or a small spring in to the Master Gardener office in the Courthouse ...
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- Watering a hanging plant can be tricky. If you press your finger into the soil and it feels dry, water. Liquid fertilizer, lightly once a week for strong growth, eve...
- next time you are in the plant sections look for something that tells you when it is time to water. There are little teracotta worms that you put in the soil and other...
- Hey, I am pretty sure the pot you bought was a partial sun/full sun mix, so your location is fine. The plant most likely has some fertilizer in it, so you don't HAVE ...
What Should We Put Under the Swing Set/play Area?
I'm a Master Gardener in Bexar County; plantanswers.com and the county extension office is another great resource for landscaping questions you may enjoy ...
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- We had our set built in early 2000 and we used the no float mulch from Home Depot. We also have a ton of trees and we have not had any issues. My husbnad replenishes ...
- Honestly Bermuda Grass... it is thick, soft and it's all we had when we were small! Anything else is going to be a PITA with leaves. Plus, rubber stains the clothes. ...
- How about artifical turf grass or indoor/outdoor carpeting with a layer of packed sand underneath? The sand will also be softer than solid ground underneath and also...
Sunny Area in backyard...what to Do?
I took the Master Gardener course last year which is through the AggriLife Extension Service (name changed just recently from Bexar County Extension ...
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- I just planted Moonflowers to cover my unsightly electric pole in the corner of my yard. I put them in two terra cotta pots at the base. It says on the envelope that i...
- Be careful. Since you run an in-home daycare, do the kids go outside? A lot of plants are poisonous. Do plenty of research before you decide. We almost lost our dog to...
- you might try putting down some inexpensive pavers and placing different size (large)pots with various plants (heat tolerant) to hide the transformer. This way you can...
Bugs in My House Plants....
If you search the internet I'm sure there are lots of suggestions, but I'd get advice from a master gardener first. K. Helpful? ...
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- Try a gentle liquid soap (e.g., Dr. Bronner's) mixed w/water in a spray bottle.
- You can buy sticky strips from a nursery like Western garden, cut into smaller strips, & put in flower pot. You can also get Insecticidal soap spray from a nursery. ...
- You may want to try dish soap. If you put like 2 TBS of regular dish soap in a spray bottle w/ maybe 1 1/2 cups of warm water then spray the plants heavly w/ the soap...
Gettin Rid of Trees
Call the Colorado State University Extention Agent, or one of their Master Gardeners and they will give you free advise. Shirley. Helpful? ...
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- C., are you trying to get rid of the tree or the sprouts? The sprouts are called suckers, and I believe that there is a spray for them. Our aspen does that and we ju...
- If you want to get rid of the trees, (I don't know how big they are, I'm not sure I can picture the tree) cut them down and pour round up in the trunk when it is fall ...
- I have these horrible tree weeds too. I went to City Floral last week and they sell a product for these sucker trees that pop up all over your yard. It is expensive (...
