Thin leafed poor blooming azaleas?06.02.07

How did your Azaleas, and Rhododendrons do this year? Did they bloom well? Is the foliage lush and full?

If you azaleas didn’t seem to do as well this year as they have in the past, or if the leaf coverage is rather thin you might want to be proactive and take some measure […]

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Insects on bearded iris leaves05.07.07

A visitor to As the garden grows told me that they’d seen some tiny red bugs on their bearded Iris leaves. Blasting the plant with water didn’t help because the bugs came back out again once the leaves dried off.

Spraying the plants with a blast of water was actually a good move and it […]

Posted in Garden Tips, Plant health, pestswith 5 COMMENTS →



I see green growth in my garden03.15.07

The weather really warmed up here over the last few days. All the snow and ice that we got a week and a half ago is pretty much gone!

The moisture must have done the grass and the garden beds some good. The grass doesn’t have that worn out dormant look. It actually […]

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Stinking brew! Alfalfa Tea08.05.06

Oh my. I did something this evening that I have to do under the cover of darkness. No, I’m not doing something illegal or trying to hide some big gardening secret from my neighbors.
No, nothing quite as simple as that I’m afraid.

You see, I’m quite sure that my neighbors are well aware that something is […]

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