Grapevine Articles
In this week's Grapevine, we are covering when and how much to side dress vegetables and annual flowers for the best production and blooms. Even with all the moisture we have been receiving, it's still important to make changes to ensure you are being water-wise with your gardens and flowerbeds. Japanese beetles have started to wreak havoc on plants across the county. Finally, our activity of the month is Tataki-zomi, or pounding flowers to create art through the color pigments. Stay cool and Happy Growing!!!
In this week's Grapevine, we are covering a common fungal disease in lawns in Brown Patch, tips on caring for your warm-season lawn, how to renovate June-bearing Strawberries, when to thin fruit trees, how to beat the summer heat while working outside, and our myth of the month deals with Blossom End Rot in vegetables.
In this week's Grapevine, we are covering how to care for your asparagus bed after harvest season, what to do with produce from your flooded garden, after flood care of trees, tips on controlling grasshoppers in your yard, information on mosquito control, and a tasty recipe for parmesan rosemary carrot fries.
In this week's Grapevine, we are covering a unique bird in the Yellow Bellied Sapsucker, with all the rain we have had now is the time to scout for leaf spot diseases on your tomatoes, Rose sawfly larvae have been causing damage to rose bushes across the area, the increase in moisture and humidity has powdery mildew cases increasing across the region, and finally our June Gardening calendar.
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