Dallas Morning News Column Archives 2016

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• Feeding koi in winter
• How to get rid of leaf cutter ants
• Addition to Garrett Juice Pro
• Mistletoe on ant mounds
• Uses for moringa
• Trees turning brown from weather
• When to plant a new Japanese maple

• Spider webs on oak tree bark
• Tree planting question - add soil to the hole?
• Cutting back a tangerine beauty crossvine
• Identify plant - Ardisia crenata
• Evening out a row of magnolia trees
• Copper based products in the Organic Program
• Can dog manure go in compost?
• Chinkapin oak in Clinton, OK
• Which heater did Howard buy for his greenhouse?

• January Organic Maintenance
• When to mow buffalograss in winter
• Attaching swings to trees
• Burlap vs. floating row cover
• Mulching leaves in St. Augustine
• Identify insects - Aphids

• Cutting back blackfoot dasies for the winter
• Oncor notice in Richardson neighborhood
• Ants and earwigs in the house problem
• Spraying oils for overwintering insects
• How often to water in winter

• Starting over advice
• Bird feeders attracting rodents
• Comparison of organic and conventional yards
• Spreading cornmeal advice
• Evergreen shade tree suggestions

• Mushroom fruiting on tree
• Leaf debris and grass clippings
• Ant hill in shrub
• Type of cornmeal for foot fungus
• Sick cedar elm tree advice
• Transplanting maples - tap root question
• Spraying oils for insect control

November 17, 2016

• Getting rid of stinkhorn mushrooms
• Snails and slugs on hosta
• Heating alfalfa fields
• Bluebonnets sprouting
• Over seeding lawn in winter
• Landscape design ideas - Howard's book
• Worms in dried molasses
• Identify plant - Creeping Charlie
• Bird feeder question
• When to plant garlic
• When to cut asparagus tops for winter

November 10, 2016

• December Organic Maintenance
• Identify bug - send to A&M 
• Milk products in compost pile
• Rose rosette update
• Apply cornmeal to St. Augustine brown patch

November 3, 2016

• Moving sweet almond verbeena
• Zeolite & Sick Tree Treatment for bradford pear
• Treating scale on St. Augstine
• What to do with potted asparagus ferns in winter
• Identify insect - Crane fly
• Replacing grass on skirt between sidewalk and street
• Hydrogen peroxide for wound on golden ball lead tree
• Will killing taproot hurt tree?

October 27, 2016

• Mexican sycamore - how long for full growth?
• Straightening a leaning tree and planting shrubs
• Identify weed - Spurge
• Replant roses & small plant year round color suggestions
• Identify plants - Althea & Bulbine
• What to do with lots of pecan shells
• London plane tree problems
• Wireworm damage on potatoes

October 20, 2016

• Bacterial leaf scortch on elm tree
• Properly exposed root flares
• Getting rid of an ant mound without harming plants
• Cracking of fruit caused by uneven moisture in soil
• Automatic sprinkler settings in cooler weather
• Switching from grass to shade tolerant groundcovers

October 13, 2016

• Controlling voles, gophers, mice and rats
• Sick pindo palm tree
• Fasciation on asparagus
• Identify insect - Io moth caterpillar

October 6, 2016

• Pecan tree roots
• Question about TORC online course
• Odor elimination tips - XO Odor Neutralizer
• Cover crops question
• Allergies - Goldenrod or Ragweed?
• Contolling stink bugs
• Fall color on trees

September 29, 2016

• Brown spots on red oak leaves
• Trimming shoots on pecan tree stump
• Liquid seaweed spray for spider mites
• Best fall vegetables for part shade
• Yellow or brown on cedar elm foliage
• Starting fall garden in clay soil
• Best time to plant new tree in yard

September 22, 2016

• Oreganos for edible groundcovers
• Flower to plant for wife - Turk's Cap
• How to water newly transplanted live oak
• White splotches on yaupon holly, Root flare exposure
• Good pecan production - Organic Pecan & Fruit Program

September 15, 2016

• How to stop pecan trees sprouting in flower beds
• Winterizing fertilizer;  Dog urine stains on grass
• Is it too late in season to lay down sod?
• Insect control in new vegetable garden

September 8, 2016

• Identify plant - Milkweed
• Fertilizing citrus trees
• Verticillium wilt on magnolia
• Type of pear tree to plant this fall
• Identify - Calla lily seeds
• Landscape company planting live oak trees in burlap

September 1, 2016

• Spots on zucchini plants
• Controlling sand burrs or grassburs
• Pine tree advice
• What kind of pine trees for black clay soil?

• Getting rid of toadstools
• Identify insect - Yellownecked Caterpillar
• Red oak problems
• Cornmeal for boxwood blight
• Neighbor uses mothballs to repel snakes - toxic
• Fall planting flowers
• Damaged bur oak - Tree trunk goop

• August Organic Maintenance
• Garrett Juice Plus shelf life
• Fall vegetables for part shade advice, Garlic chives
• How to kill bermudagrass in garden

• Identify - Gall
• Dr. Ohira Probiotics
• How to make Bti spray
• How to control mosquitos in home
• Top 3 indoor plants
• Azaleas dying
• Exposing root flare on bradford pear
• Vinca wilts every summer
• Identify insect - Woolly bear moth

• Non-toxic yellow jacket control
• Good things to plant
• Types of rye grass
• Is it OK to water at night?
• Shummard red oak damage
• Local insectary listing
• Wrapped tree trunks
• Non-toxic head lice treatment

• Controlling mesquite trees on ranch
• Saltpeter for killing stumps
• Fig leaves turning brown
• Plum tree problems
• Young oak tree
• Mole scram in vegetable garden
• Identify plant - Mexican firebush
• Woodpecker

• July Organic Maintenance
• Getting rid of bamboo permanently
• Bigtooth maple
• Backpack sprayer
• Okra problems
• Types of crape myrtles

• Failing cherry laurel - Replace with crape myrtle
• Identify plant - Privet
• Where to purchase white mistflower
• Garrett Juice - How often to use
• How much to prune roses and sage
• Nutgrass control
• Moth eggs around house
• Desert rose
• Controlling brownpatch in St. Augustine
• Stop mockingbirds from eating tomatoes and peppers
• Golden delicious apple trees
• Identify fungus - slime mold
• Corn gluten feed v. corn gluten meal

• Identify insect - Squash vine borer
• Tree for centerpiece / focal point of back yard
• White bugs on aralia
• Soil building in Eastern Colorado

• Creosote contamination cleanup
• Using eggshells in soil or compost
• How to spread lava sand
• Where to get quality compost in North Texas
• St. Augustine hybrid called DALSA
• Raising mowing height - Bermuda grass
• Edging or trench around shrub beds
• Fungus on chinquapin oak trees

• Eden climbing rose losing leaves
• Controlling aphids
• Where to buy Garrett Juice in Austin
• Edging around roots
• Lavender blooms dying
• Removing hackberries around fence
• Pollinators
• Organic yard with two golden retrievers

• June Organic Maintenance
• Drowned tree, Getting rid of wild carrots
• Organic ant control
• Which type of herbicide for weeds in veggie garden
• Grass dying from shade in lawn
• Leaf spot on Indian hawthorne

• Identify plant - Trumpet vine
• Tree trouble in Spring
• Cicada killers and wasps
• How to store home made Garrett Juice
• Identify bacteria - Nostoc
• Get rid of fire ants in compost bin
• Why are some tomatoes mushy
• Planting heirloom tomato varieties next to each other
• Identify insect - Tree hopper nymph
• How much Bio SI with Garret Juice Plus

• Alaska fish fertilizer, Garrett Juice
• Phylloxera gall on pecan tree
• Quackgrass and Roundup
• Cutting pods off empress tree
• How much Garrett Juice Plus
• Mosquitos inside house, Bti
• Identify plant - Spiderwort
• Organic pesticide for black flies and buffalo gnats

• Azomite question
• How to get rid of chiggers
• How to kill clump bamboo
• Contractor used toxic chemicals in flower bed, how to detox soil and what to tell him
• Compost and sand around tree while planting
• Exposing pecan tree root flare
• X-O Odor Neutralizer for dog urine smell
• How to get rid of stink bugs
• Pruning red oak tree
• SIgning up for the Natural-Organic Certification Course
• Bti for repelling gnats and flies

• Identify insect - grubworm larvae
• Planting red yucca seeds
• Grow roses from seed - rose hips
• Growing buffalo grass in sun / shade
• Kill tree stump, Roses turning yellow
• How often to spray garlic pepper tea
• Tomato diseases and treatment
• Champion Pecan Tree, Measuring tree diameter

• June Organic Maintenance
• Organic pesticide for tomatoes 
• Flea problem, nematodes, flea control products
• Eldarica pine trees dying
• Vinegar for sidewalk weeds
• How to make orange oil
• East palatka holly tree, House foundation damage

• Whole ground cornmeal, Corn gluten meal
• Seaweed substitute in Garrett Juice formula
• Aphid control
• All soy is GMO
• Hole and weeping in trunk of red oak, Sick tree treatment
• Recommendations for ball moss
• Bloodgood Japanese maples, full sunlight, Injecting Bt
• Only native soil in the backfill

• Minneapolis bans Roundup
• Identify plants - Yarrow, field madder, mushrooms
• Bugs on grapevine
• Yellow jacket and wasp infestation - organic treatments
• Will extra fertilizer help hollies and thinning grass?
• Correct amount of Garret Juice for square footage
• Treatment for fungal disease on tomatoes

• Pear tree too deep, root ball, sick tree treatment
• Patching trunks of oaks, tree trunk goop
• Controlling poa annua
• Controlling white flies
• Landscape companies stacking mulch around tree trunks
• New weeping peach, Is it too early for sick tree treatment?
• Identify plant - Virginia buttonweed
• Bed preparation details
• Are wild onions safe to eat?

• May Organic Maintenance
• Identify plant - Virginia creeper
• Beneficial nematodes instead of Amdro for fire ants
• Recommendations for fall color - Big Tooth Maple

• Moving heirloom tomatoes
• Where to get dawn redwoods
• Fuji apple trees, Cutter ants
• Killing an acre of goatheads
• Only half of figs maturing
• Indian hawthorne in partial shade
• Deterring dogs from pulling up English ivy
• Vegetables or food that can be grown in shade
• How to learn organic methods - Natural-Organic Course

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