Dallas Morning News Column Archives 2017
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December 28, 2017
December 21, 2017
December 14, 2017
- Galls – Pest or Interesting Bit of Nature?
- Time to get Vines off Trees and More
November 30, 2017
November 23, 2017
November 16, 2017
- Excellent Bed Preparation = Successful Gardening and Landscaping
- Hydrogen Peroxide – Great Tool for Many Jobs
- Steps for Moving Tropical Plants Indoors for the Winter
October 26, 2017
October 19, 2017
- Some Trees have No Redeeming Value
- Needle Palm – One of the Toughest Plants of All
- Mulches – Some Better than Others
September 28, 2017
September 21, 2017
- Tree Planting for Best Results
- Tree Planting Ideal Time is Here
- Elephant Ears – Allocasia and Collocasia – Both Hardy in North Texas
- Understanding the Basic Organic Program
- Flowering Plants for Attracting Pollinators and More
- Dirt Doctor Recommended Products
- Pride of Barbados for Texas Gardens
- Chlorosis in Trees – The Rest of the Story
- Good and Better Oaks for North Texas
July 13, 2017
July 6, 2017
June 29, 2017
- Weed Control Doesn’t Have to be Toxic
- Tree Pruning – Sometimes Less is More
- Making Compost is a Good Plan
- Mexican Sycamore – Better than our Native Tree
- What’s Wrong with Synthetic Fertilizers?
- Entomosporium Leaf Spot of Photinia and Indian Hawthorn
- Turf Dying Out is Common Question
- Beneficial nematodes questions
- Info about fatty acid products, Root flare photo
- Dry molasses for ant problem
- Exposing root flare on Burr Oak tree
- Identify plant – Roadside Aster
- Identify plant – Carolina Snailseed
- Japanes maple advice
- Identify disease – Scale or rust
- Is it okay to mix organic products?
- Identify plant – Mullein
- Herbicide damage on apple tree, Stihl Backpack Sprayer
- Spraying beneficial nematodes
- Identify insect – Scale
- Garden got sprayed with 24D – Soil detox program
- St. Augustine problems
- Too few chilling hours effects on fruit and nut production
- Bare spots in St. Augustine
- Hydrogen peroxide formula
- How to use beneficial nematodes from Arbico
- Identify insect – Wooly bear moth
- Monterrey Garden insect spray
- Identify plant – Spirea “Anthony Waterer”
- Cleaning a new bird bath
- Treating small grasshoppers in garden
- Exposing root flares
- Walkways for a school garden
- Will nematodes help with chiggers?
- Pest control for two acres
- Tent caterpillar control options
- Where to buy horticultural corn meal
- Trimming yaupon holly
- Is it too late for corn gluten meal?
- Sapsucker damage
- Identify insect – Moth eggs
- Identify plant – Variegated thistle
- How much hydrogen peroxide for nutgrass
- Spraying Garrett Juice on lawn
- Removing soil from root flare
- Irish Spring soap for rodents
- Soaking cornmeal in water and spraying
- Cinder block raised garden report
- Grass dying under tree
- Collecting oak pollen for gardening
- Comfrey in full sun
- Italian cypress problems
- Howard’s chipper/shredder recommendation
- Preventing and treating leaf rollers
- Going organic in lawn questions
- Fireblight or fungal disease on tree
- Mushrooms on tree indicate rot
- Sapsucker holes on apricot tree
- Oak flowers for mulch
- First fertilization on new sod
- Worx brand blower/mulcher
- Using caliche under pebbles in walkway
- Growing desert willow in Fort Worth
- Soil ammendments for calcium
- Strange growth on asparagus
- When to trim/prune live oaks
- Does lilac grow well in Texas?
- Where to get mistflower in Austin
- Moisture and smell from molasess covered with cardboard
- Tree planting recommendations
- April Organic Maintenance
- Nandina damage questions
- Glyphosate and youth sports
- Pruning bouganvillea
- Cankers on possumhaw holly
- Squirrel control report
- Chickens damaging Texas sage
- Sapsucker holes on live oaks
- Howard’s position on Texas wild hog control
- Essential oils for gardening
- When to plant cool season vegetables
- What type of molasses to use
- Trees dying on property
- How to clean a sprayer that had Roundup in it
- New Library entry – Bar Harbor Juniper
- Strawgrass over potatoes question
- Texas Bug Book
- Replacing Oleanders
- Identify tree – Soapberry
- Treating succulents after freeze
- Shade trees for Dallas
- Treating sooty mold on crape myrtles
- Chinese pistachio with two trunks
- Staking or stapling options for trees
- Growing peppers advice
- Book recommendation – Hidden Life of Trees
- March Organic Maintenance
- Caterpillar or sawfly damage on leaves
- Texas Trees for privacy or shade
- Bamboo control
- Will garlic pepper tea harm African violets?
- Will goji berries grow East of San Antonio?
- Live oaks losing leaves
- Identify substance – Slime mold
- Honeysuckle in mulch
- Aloe vera questions
- Italian cypress problems – Sick Tree Treatment
- Planting, care and maintenance for new pear trees
- Garrett Juice questions – aeration, shelf-life and temperature
- Best time to plant begonia varieties in East Texas
- Is alpaca manure okay to use in the garden?
- Weather damage to bay tree in Plano
- Horizontal branch growth on ginkgo
- Identify jelly-like substance on peach tree – Gummosis
- When to transplant peonies
- Tree Trunk Goop for splitting bark on red oak
- Identify plant – Spindletree
- February Organic Maintenance
- Cleaning stones and bucket from compost tea
- Removing tangled roots on 15 year old live oak
- Will popcorn work like horticultural cornmeal?
- Crazy ants coming
- No such thing as bark blight
- Which sprayer does Howard recommend?
- Identify mushroom – fruiting body of tree fungus
- Removal of yucca plant
- Sandblasting for ants
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