Question from Gerry: For three years I’ve meant to grow sweet peas, but something has gotten in the way until this year. I remembered to plant sweet peas in September–spent August prepping a 35′ row, sowed on Labor Day. Didn’t review your book. Didn’t soak the seed. They came up sporadically, but I never seemed […]
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Categories : Vegetables & Fruits
Question from Debbie: Hopefully you know about indoor plants as well…. I am sure you do!!! 😉 I have two antheriums that were beautiful but they are becoming smaller and smaller now 🙁 I have each sitting in the bathrooms, thinking the humidity would be good for them. They each keeping getting brown on the […]
Categories : Flowers
Tags : Antheriums, Pat Welsh
Gardening Question from Debbie: I have this pot outside in my garden in a location where it receives morning shade but direct sun most all afternoon. It did well for a while; then all leaves dropped but coming back now as soon as I watered less. How often should I water this pot?? and what […]
Categories : Flowers, Pots & Containers
Tags : bonsai bouganvillia, Pat Welsh
Question from Debbie: Hello! I have lost most of my squash plants; only a couple left. A powdery mildew forms on the leaves firstly; so then I cut back on the water but still continues…. now they have dwindled to nothing, ready to pull out. Some had blossoms even; some had little squashes… now all […]
Categories : Vegetables & Fruits
Tags : powdery mildew
Question from Margaret: Hi Pat, My husband and I are not gardeners, but now we have a house with a big yard and we have some very happy star jasmine. They are planted near a wall and we installed some wire trellis above so it could eventually grow up and over the trellis. Basically, I […]
Categories : Flowers
Tags : Star jasmine
Question from Heather: I live near the coast. When is the best time to prune back lavendar? I did it a few months back, but not aggressively. Now they are even larger, too big in fact. Answer from Pat: Prune lavendar as soon as the main blossom season has finished. Lavendar needs full sun. Otherwise […]
Question from Wil: At your presentation in Huntington Beach in September, you gave a formula for creating fertilizer. I’ve lost the list. Is it available? Answer from Pat: The homemade fertilizer recipe I gave that day was the one used by my brother John Fisher-Smith in Oregon. He mixes the following together: 4 parts seed […]
Categories : Fertilizer
Here is the way to plant native plants (Best time to plant: in November) Native plants like best to be planted in plain, native, un-amended soil. Amended soil where garden plants have grown is not the best environment for native plants because native plants are sensitive to fungi and other pathogens that have been brought […]
Categories : California Natives, November
Question from Dave: We’re planning on planting Mexican sage in a full sun area in zone 24. Can you suggest a plant with similar hardiness characteristics that has a red flower or a white flower? Answer from Pat: In my opinion the plant that looks best next to Mexican sage (Salvia leucantha) is Copper Canyon […]
Categories : California Natives
Question from Chad: I am just installed a raised 13 1/2 foot by 5 1/2 foot veggie bed in mu back yard that will get great amounts of south facing sun. I have filled the bed with good quality organic soil. I am using a soaker hose that is hooked into the irrigation timer. I […]
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