Question: Hi – in 2010 we bought property with 15 grown fruit trees (cherry, pear, asian pear, apple, plum, peach, hazlenet, walnut). What product(s) should we use to care for them? Some of the fruit had brown spots on them (see below). Is there also a book you would recommend? Any advice would be appreciated. …
Constructing My Raised Beds
Using Frame-it-All recycled timbers to create raised beds for a vegetable garden on an old basketball court.
Pruning Asian Pears in California
Q. I live in San Diego, California and I am wondering when the best time to prune an Asian Pear Tree (fruitless). It has tons of white flowers now, but once the flowers are gone we would like to shape it because it has several branches extending out. What is the best month to prune…
Hydrangea Blooms Blasted
Q. I have a Hydrangea that was bought as a gift from a floral shop. I transplanted it outside 3 years ago and I have never been able to get it to bloom. I can see the blooms and they start to open and then dry up and never open to a full blooming flower….
Hori Hori Knife
The Hori Hori Knife is one of the most popular gardening tools to be imported from Japan. Hori is a form of the verb horu, which means “to dig”. Although most people describe the Hori Hori Knife as a tool used in Japan by bonsai collectors I always wondered why it looked so much like…