3 Tips For Preventing A Lawn Full Of Weeds
Who likes a lawn full of weeds that choke out your grass and other plants? While there are benefits to many weeds, such as helping prevent soil erosion and attract pollinators like bees, having them in areas like your vegetable garden or flowerbed isn’t welcome. Up Next: 4 Tips For [...]
May
What Is Wrong With My Tree? Cedar Apple Rust
Cedar Apple Rust Is A Fungus The two most common rust diseases are cedar-apple rust and cedar-hawthorn rust. The two conditions have similar effects on trees, but they require a different host species. Cedar apple rust is a fungal disease that spends part of its life cycle on Eastern red [...]
May
What Is Wrong With My Tree? Apple Scab
Apple Scab Is A Fungal Disesase Apple Scab is a fungal disease that causes severe stress to ornamental crabapple trees. Spores will develop on diseased leaves on the ground. The fungal spores then spread through the air after a rainfall to healthy trees about the time of bud break in [...]
Apr
4 Tips For Protecting Your Plants From Rabbits
Don’t get us wrong. We love rabbits. They are cute, fuzzy, and overall adorable. But to the gardener, they’re troublesome fiends. Rabbits have a habit of getting into gardens to nibble on plants. While they tend to do less damage than deer, it’s not a comfort to gardeners who have [...]
Apr
5 Ways To Celebrate Arbor Day From Home
Arbor Day is upon us, and that means giving a toast to trees! These essential, complex organisms matter to the health of not only the planet but us: cleaner air, reduced temperatures, increased home value, and habitats for wildlife. Up Next: Tips For Creating Your Native Missouri Pollinator Garden With [...]
Apr