Water Quality, Soil Testing, & Amendments for the Garden
Softened Water From Sam, “A couple questions I have. The first question is, my wife and I live in an area where the water isn't the greatest, and so we have soft water. Is [...]
Troubles with Elderberry Bush Not Producing
Ruth from North Canton asks, “Elderberries. This is probably the fifth year that I've had it. I've not had any elderberries yet. You told me to use Big Bloom and I did, and the [...]
Newly Planted Rhubarb is Struggling
Yvonne in Canton says, “My family bought me some rhubarb and we've had rhubarb in our family for years. Our neighbor cut ours down and so we had to replace it. It was planted [...]
How & When to Trim Back Macrophylla Hydrangeas
I have an email here from Ann and she says, “first of all, when is the best time to prune hydrangeas and how much and where on the stalk do you prune? I have [...]
More About Mums & Keeping Alive
Mary would like to know, ‘are there different kinds of mums and are they all available right now?’ There are different kinds of mums, there's a floral mum which most garden centers do not [...]
Complete Wisteria Vine Removal
We have Joe in Louisville, who says, ‘a few years ago, my wife fell in love with wisteria and I planted some, and now I am ready to get rid of it. Is there [...]
Trumpet Vines Aren’t Blooming, How to Solve
Sue in Canton says, “Hi, I have a question about the trumpet vines. Years ago, and I don't even remember because they've been in so long, we bought three and I don't know at [...]
Taking Care of Mums to Keep Them as a Perennial
Talk about taking care of mums, a lot of people do ask if they're hardy, which I mean, which just means if they're going to come back everywhere or every year. They are grown [...]
Planting and Watering Trees Properly in the Fall
What's the difference between planting trees now as opposed to planting them in the spring? In the spring, generally we get ample amounts of rain. Now rain by itself won't always get water deep [...]
Fig Tree Grew too Big to Bring Inside!
Another question from Al, and he asks, "well, you know this weather's been crazy tropical this year. That's where the plants are seven eight feet, tall, everything is crazy now. My fig tree, I [...]