Dallas Morning News Column Archives 2017

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• Sweet Myrtle

• Lava Sand Benefits

• Galls - Pest or Interesting Bit of Nature?

• Time to get Vines off Trees and More

• Vinegar and Its Benefits

• Christmas Tree Decisions

• Excellent Bed Preparation = Successful Gardening and Landscaping

• Hydrogen Peroxide - Great Tool for Many Jobs

• Steps for Moving Tropical Plants Indoors for the Winter

• Squirrel Control

• Some Trees have No Redeeming Value

• Needle Palm - One of the Toughest Plants of All

• Mulches - Some Better than Others

• Uncovering Root Flares

• 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

• Ladybugs in Town

• Chlorosis in Trees - The Rest of the Story

• Good and Better Oaks for North Texas

• Italian Cypress Solution

• Organic Disease Control

• Weed Control Doesn't Have to be Toxic

• Tree Pruning - Sometimes Less is More

• Good and Bad Trees

• 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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