Fruit trees are budding or will soon bud out. This is an important time to begin applying fungicides to trees that had a fungal leaf disease last season. Apples and crabapples are often infected by ...
If you have trouble with fungal or bacterial diseases in your garden, Bordeaux mixture may be able to help. For example, if you grow roses, you may have problems with diseases such as anthracnose, ...
Q. My crabapple tree leaves are all turning yellow and dropping off the tree. What's wrong – and how do I fix the problems? A. Your issue is a result of the wet weather we experienced this spring. We ...
Q: When should I be dormant spraying my fruit trees? Earlier this year I asked about peach leaf curl on my peach tree and was told that prevention in the form of at least two dormant sprays was the ...
Question. A ligustrum tree near the entrance to our home has brown spots on the leaves even though it gets needed fertilizer. What is the cause and what should we do? Answer. Fertilizer applied three ...
From the BelleWood Acres farmhouse in Washington's Whatcom County, you can see piles of apple crates and rows of trees that stretch for acres. This is the biggest apple orchard west of the Cascades.
Dormant oils (horticultural oils, superior oils, parafine oils, Volck oils Ö) are great to spray now on your trees and shrubs. Be sure to read the label and make sure the temperatures are going to be ...
Q:We have a gross mushroom problem on our front lawn. We’ve been inundated by ugly, fast-growing mushrooms. At first, there are cute little mushroom heads on very thin stems. After a few weeks, the ...
Fruit trees are budding or will soon bud out. This is an important time to begin applying fungicides to trees that had a fungal leaf disease last season. Apples and crabapples are often infected by ...