Here are some concerns I encountered this week. I hope they help you with your gardening problems. Question: What is the effect of replacing existing lawn with artificial turf under an olive tree? We ...

With winter coming, it's important to keep your fruit trees healthy. Luckily, there are some things you can do in the fall to ...

LET’S REVIEW A perfect and a little-known method which is totally appropriate now in the month of October. I have numerous times explained, and rightly so, how pruning at the wrong time of year can ...

Gardeners often are told that after planting or transplanting, they should water frequently until the plant is “established.” But what does that mean, exactly? “It’s all about the roots,” said Sharon ...

If soil is dry and cracked, moisture-stressed trees, shrubs and perennial flowers are more likely to be injured during the ...

Q: Recently our neighbors converted their front lawn to artificial turf. The trees were getting some good moisture from their grass, and now they won’t. The other two sides of the trees are on the ...

El Nino, La Nina, cold air, warm air, rain, drought. This winter has been a little odd for most of us, and most of us have lived in Kansas for a lifetime. I can’t remember a winter with so little snow ...

Watering at 7am to mid-morning gives roots the full day to drink and move moisture through tissues. Leaves dry quickly after any accidental splashes, which reduces the window for fungal diseases to ...

There are several advantages to planting bare-root trees: they are usually less expensive, easier for gardeners to transport and they will grow their roots entirely into native soil (rather than ...

Trees are some of the oldest and largest living organisms on our planet. A large tree can move up to 100 gallons of water from the soil to its leaf surfaces every day. Coastal redwoods can tower more ...