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Over watering, improper soil conditions and applying too much mulch are the leading cause of plant fatalities in new landscape plantings. If applied properly, a good landscape mulch can be one of the best things you can do to maintain good health for your landscape plants. Improperly applied, and it can be one of . . . → Read More: Use the Proper Amount of Mulch on Your Plantings. Those doggone walnuts. They are one of our most valuable hardwood tree species, but they can be a real nuisance in the home landscape. Each year, several people will ask me why they can’t seem to get anything to grow under their walnut tree. Just the other day I was at a customer’s house . . . → Read More: What Will Grow Under My Walnut Tree? If you have deer in your neighborhood, chances are that you have seen them taking a lunch break on in your yard, enjoying one of the new shrubs (or perennials) that you just purchased. And you thought it was just the right plant for the right space. It looks like the deer agree with . . . → Read More: How to keep Deer away from your plants Occasionally I’ll run across something on the web that I’d like to pass on, whether it be an important issue, or just a fun fact. In this case, it’s just a fun fact I found from the U of M Yard and Garden News. There are some deciduous trees that hold their leaves in . . . → Read More: Fun facts from the gardening world If you’re an avid gardener, you have probably seen that the National Arbor Day Foundation has released an updated version of the U.S Department of Agriculture’s hardiness zone map, which was last updated in 1990. The NADF has used data from 5000 National Climatic Data Center stations around the country from the last 15 . . . → Read More: Is Global Warming here? New Plant Hardiness Zones
With the deep snow cover this year, we are seeing a lot of damage from rabbits, voles, and mice. In the summer they will usually eatmore succulent food such as grasses and herbs, and of course just about anything in your garden. The deep snow we had denied the rabbits of their usual food sources, . . . → Read More: Rodent damage on trees and shrubs
Minnesota’s winters can be really tough on landscape plants. The combination of cold temperatures, winter sun, and drying winds can damage or even kill buds, bark, roots. Hungry mice and rabbits can nibble away at bark and branches, causing severe damage or even death. In addition, evergreens, can suffer from winter . . . → Read More: Winter burn on evergreens  Comments are closed  News  advice, burlap, burn, evergreens, minnesota, needles, pine, planting, prevention, trees, winter, winterburn This is the time of year that I get a lot of calls from people asking about water problems in their basements. Part of the issue can be that the ground around their home has started to thaw out, while the ground further from the home is frozen. If the the lawn around home . . . → Read More: Keep Water Out of Your Basement An appetizer before lunch October: You’ve done your research, picked out just the right varieties with the proper heights and colors and now you’re heading home with 350 tulip bulbs, a big sack of bone meal, a couple of bales of peat moss and a brand new bulb planter. You’ve already taken a whole day to till up the garden. . . . → Read More: Home Remedies: Keep those pesky rabbits and squirrels out of your garden Farmer's Almanac, 1883 Farmer’s Almanac, has always been known for its long range forecasts. But it also contains a lot of other information, such as gardening tips, tide tables, moon phases, astronomy and articles on farming. It has been around for over 225 years, making it the longest running periodical ever. You can . . . → Read More: Farmer’s Almanac: Weather predictions for 2011 Comments are closed ezine, News, Northfield 2011, doug, farmer's almanac, grove, landscaping, minnesota, predictions, weather |
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