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Advice on a leaning hedge
Hello, I've got a hedge in my garden that is leaning. I wondered if anybody had any tips to correct the problem. Please see attached image Many Thanks Will...
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Rose of Sharron Transplant
I have 2 pretty big Rose of Sharron plants I would like to move. They are o= ver 5 feet tall and have been the ground about 5 years. Can I get enough of= the root structure to move them or will I just...
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Pruning an Ornimental Tree
I have a bushy camellia tree that was keeping the light from ornamental plants beneath it. I have now heavily pruned it to make it tall with a bare trunk and a crown top. This lets in more light...
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Is there a better way to remove a poison oak plant than with a chainsaw?
This weekend, I needed to remove a poison oak plant along my property but the plant was too big and too much on a hill for spraying; so I cut it with an 18" chainsaw and packed it up for proper...
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Good lucK David
Well David, we've had the automated call from the RFS about catastrophic conditions tomorrow so will leave here early tomorrow. I hope all is OK for you and yours and from the maps I've seen you might...
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Soil testing
Hello, I have a large pile of ash from burning leaves, wood, limbs, pine straw etc, and I've read that ash can be helpful to plants if my soil ph is not over 7.5. My questions is, how do you test your...
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help for some plants and ID
hi all. ive posted here afew times now every time i have a question and iv'e always got answers so im hoping this time will be the same. first off... can anyone name me this plant (attached) ? my...
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Garending TV Shows
I am a customer of Direct Tv and I just went through a search for Gardening= shows. There are none. I am looking for shows about plants and planting, h= arvesting, that kind of stuff. Am I missing...
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My phalaenopsis got no flower again
Hi, I bought a phalaenopsis one year ago. After the flower die, I have cut the dying stem off. Since then It grow a lot of roots, but there was no flower again. Can you tell me why? I am thinking to...
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Scotch Broom & Spanish Broom removal tips
Here for the record is how I removed the scotch & spanish broom. 1. The task was to weed about an acre of these weeds: 2. I first got below the weed on the hillside & grasped low: 3. Then I pulled...
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Would you buy a GMO houseplant that could really scrub your air of pollutants?
I=92m Stuart Strand, Research Professor at the University of Washington in = Seattle. For 20 years, our lab, supported by the National Institutes of Hea= lth, Dept of Defense, and the National Science...
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Glyphosate residues - David
David you may recall that soem time back we had a discussion here on glyphosate residues - it arose from a post that was made by Sheldon and where I responded about how it seemed to leave residues...
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Unknown Plant Can Anyone help ?
Hi I was walking down the road a couple of years ago and i saw that someone had thrown out a dead plant. I was looking mostly at the pot it was in to see if i could use it. Anyway i noticed that the...
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Adjusting the pH of soil.
I have a plant that likes a pH of 5.5. Can I just use a potassium phosphate buffer adjusted to this value to water the plant with? Peter
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Permanent Digital Moisture Meter for Plants
Does anyone make a digital meter that can be left in a small plant and show the water saturation of the soil around the roots 24x7? I have played with the "Thirsty Light" and find it to be inaccurate...
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