Question from Jane: When do I fertilize my fruit trees and what do you recommend? Thank you I live in Fallbrook Answer from Pat: No, I do no suggest bloodmeal as the best fertilizer for deciduous fruit trees. It is strong nitrogen and can burn. Not right thing at all. I suggested it as one […]
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Planting on a Bank & Best Substitutes for Lawns
Posted by Pat Welsh
· Tuesday,
December
2nd,
2014
at 03:49 AM
Question from Howard: We are a Homeowners association with a steep bank, 45 degrees or steeper, three blocks long and about 30 feet high. What drought tolerant plant(s) would you recommend? Also, what ground cover, if any, would you recommend to replace grass areas? Answer from Pat: Before I can answer your question, I need […]
Question from Barbara: I bought your book and LOVE it — wish I’d had it years ago. I thought you’d like to know that I featured it on my blog www.beesandchicks.com this morning in my Tuesday’s Tips post. I understand that you are going to speak at my O.C. Master Gardener class’ graduation this May. […]
Categories : Garden Q & A, Organic Gardening
Question from Sally: My radishes and onions have really nice green leaves and don’t bulb my radishes where like the size of my little finger. What could be the problem? My soil in my raised beds test great but they tested having like NO nitrogen. I put aged chicken manure in the beds 2 or […]
Categories : Vegetables & Fruits
Strawberries for Groundcover and for Fruit
Posted by Pat Welsh
· Wednesday,
November
26th,
2014
at 03:49 AM
Question from Stanley: I live in Nevada City, California. This is my latest landscape project. (I am a computer programmer, but try to knock out a couple of home projects a year to make myself feel useful and adequate.) I had intended to plant creeping thyme or something aromatic like that. (The water is stubbed […]
Categories : Landscape Design, Vegetables & Fruits
How to Protect Rusty Objects in Mosaic Wall
Posted by Pat Welsh
· Monday,
November
24th,
2014
at 03:49 AM
Q. I just ran across your wonderful wall images online. I am planning on making a mosaic backsplash in my kitchen using pieces of broken pottery and rusty objects I have found in my backyard. I am wondering if you can give me advice on any special cleaning/sealing or whatever is necessary for using old […]
Categories : Garden Q & A, Uncategorized
Question: My husband and I went to your presentation at Del Mar, you taught us a lot of information, Thanks! We have 2 frederic passion vine, that are suppose to fruit, 2 years old we got flowers but zero fruit. We have one red that has never even flowered but has spread. The 1st year […]
Categories : Citrus & Fruit Trees
Romancing the Garden: A philosophy of gardening Pt 2
Posted by Pat Welsh
· Sunday,
November
16th,
2014
at 03:49 AM
To clarify the ideas in this book, I have illustrated it with photos from my own garden and those of friends and family. I am very keen on the idea that a garden needs to be in harmony with the architecture of the house it surrounds. My own house is 50 years old and was […]
Categories : Landscape Design, Uncategorized
Question from JoAnn: Hi Pat, I live in Temecula and have a two year old Royal apricot which has had lots of fruit this summer, so much so that the branches are dragging. I just learned that I should have picked off many of the fruit to encourage bigger ones to ripen. It has grown […]
Categories : Citrus & Fruit Trees, Trees
Question: I’m on a fast mission, quite desperate. I’m pulling my hair out. I have an avocado tree that has mites and is definitely languishing. Too much rain, and even though I composted loads before planting, not enough to balance out the clay. Pray I don’t get/have root-rot. Went around with a 1 inch pvc […]
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