The organic material in leaves improves the soil as it decomposes. When they fall, leaves contain 50-80 percent of the nutrients the plant extracted from the soil during the growing season.
The period after summer heat and before winter freezes is a perfect time to perform many tasks. So now is the time to plan your fall lawn and garden work.
We’re approaching the time for application of fall fertilizer and preemergence herbicides.
The short answer is yes; trees absolutely do need supplemental water during droughts. But the details can be confusing. How much water do they need? How often should you water?
Your problem could be chinch bugs. The damage they do is often thought to be due to lack of water, but watering will not restore the affected grass.
Most tomatoes stop setting fruit when the days and nights get too hot, so there’s a summertime gap in the harvest.
A huge variety of plants are offered for sale at area nurseries and selecting the right one isn’t always easy. Fortunately, some of the screening work has been done for us.
A gentleman once reported that he planted his roses along the edge of his lawn so his sprinkler system took care of watering them every day.
Fire ants can’t be eliminated entirely because it’s not possible to treat all areas that are infested. The goal of current integrated pest management programs is to suppress fire ants as much as possible with biological control methods and use insecticides only where it is economically and environmentally justifiable to do so.
Spring is just around the corner, so it might seem like it’s a good time to fertilize and give your turf a good
