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Some gardeners like to rely on “magic dates” to make sure they do the right things at the right time but there are dangers to this scheduling.Two such dates come to mind: “feeding” citrus trees on St Valentine’s Day and the last frost date that allows them to go ahead with summer in mind.
The danger […]

Spring is not far away, though local weather conditions may not favor its arrival. What sets it off is the lengthening days, and we have a slight indication of this taking place. Warming temperatures are another influence, and we have fluctuating changes happening that depend on regional weather changes as well as whether we are […]

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Please don’t be alarmed by the rampant question marks where there once were apostrophes. It happened during the site migration to DreamHost and I haven’t fixed it ….yet. It’s something to do with some SQL utf8 format database dump blah blah blah. I hope that you don’t find it too awfully annoying […]

It???s an easy thing to do if you want to copy a particularly good fruit tree. Basically, you take a piece of it and grow it separately. Springtime is the best time for this operation because there???s a life force that activates plants and gets them out of winter dormancy as the days lengthen and […]

Wintertime, when the trees are leafless, is when mistletoes comes to our attention. During the summer, when the trees are full with foliage, the parasite is hidden but all the time it is stealing nutrients and water.There are several kinds of desert mistletoes and each kind has male and female plants. If you look closely […]