October Garden Questions and Answers
October Garden Questions and Answers. Includes tomatoes not setting fruit, tomato plants turning brown and drying up and spraying to get rid of oxalis and other weeds. Q. I'm an avid reader of your column. I had a problem with my beefsteak tomato ... [... more]
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Taylor's Weekend Gardening Guide to Small Gardens: How ...
 It will answer most of your small garden questions!: Very good book for beginners. Nicely done start-up section! It will have you coming out of your dream state long enough to see the realistic needs of your small garden. Beautiful color photos is sure [... more]
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Common-Sense Pest Control: Least-Toxic Solutions for ...
From Amazon.com: If you have a home, an apartment, a garden, or a pet (or, in some cases, housemates or tenants), you've probably got pests. And if you want to control pests, there's no need to poison yourself. While the Green Revolution and DDT and [... more]
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September Garden Question & Answers
September Garden Questions and Answers. Use of epsom salts as fertilizer, lack of tangerines this season, preventing rust on snapdragons. Q. - Can you tell me about using Epsom salts as a fertilizer? Also, my zucchini plants this year have curly ... [... more]
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June Garden Questions & Answers
June Garden Questions & Answers: whiteflies, epsom salt rose fertilizer recipe, ant control. Q. Whiteflies are hanging out on my poppies. What A. Whiteflies used to be an overwhelming problem You can use insecticidal soap or a chemical It will ... [... more]
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Garden Questions and Answers
Garden questions and answers. Tomatoes, white flies, and bacterial canker on apricot trees. Q. My tomato plants are growing great guns, but are starting to spill over and spread across the ground. I know I should buy those wire tomato cages, but ... [... more]
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September Garden Questions and Answers
September garden questions and answers include: algerian ivy, rats and snails; sweet peas; nitrate and other forms of fertilizers, including fish emulsion. Q. I was about to plant our back slope with large-leafed Algerian ivy when a neighbor ... [... more]
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June Garden Questions & Answers
June Garden Questions & Answers. Includes weed-killing recipe utilizing sulphate of ammonia fertilizer, recommended pink roses and crape myrtles. Q. I was really interested in your weed-killing recipe utilizing sulphate of ammonia in a recent ... [... more]
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February Garden Questions and Answers
February Garden Questions and Answers include ant recipe using boric acid to rid your home of ants, and using vinegar to neutralize salt build-up in houseplants. Q. Ants, ants and more ants. It's obvious from a question that I answered recently ... [... more]
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September Garden Questions & Answers
September Garden Questions & Answers include preventing pets from urinating on lawns, what to do; how to prepare garden soil and dealing with fungus diseases on apples. Q. Our new dog has taken to "doing his thing" on our backyard lawn. We' [... more]
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July Garden Questions and Answers
July Garden Questions and Answers. Includes how to get rid of ants on artichokes, detering grasshoppers and a good gardening book for western gardeners. Q. I had my first meal of artichokes yesterday. There were ants and aphids in large numbers ... [... more]
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Garden Questions & Answers for June
Have a garden question? I'll be glad to answer in a future column! Q. My 8-year-old doesn't eat many vegetables, but carrots are one that she enjoys. I've planted carrots in the past, but they always turn out stumpy or misshapen. Is there any way ... [... more]
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