Question from Melody: I am writing to get some information on grafting fruit trees. We have 5 or 6 old avocado trees that don’t produce fruit and I am thinking maybe grafting would work to have them bare fruit again. If this is in fact a way to restore old trees, we are looking to […]
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Categories : Citrus & Fruit Trees
Question from Andrea: My question is about planting in a community garden raised bed. I live in a apartment with very limited planting space. My love for gardening is so strong I am looking into a local community garden to be able to grow more veggies for my family to enjoy. But I have never […]
Categories : Garden Q & A
How to Graft a Podocarpus or Grow One from Cuttings
Posted by Pat Welsh
· Tuesday,
April
9th,
2013
at 03:49 AM
Question from Diana: Hi Pat, After surviving a fire that destroyed everything around it, the the massive Podocarpus that graces the center of the Southwest Community Center in Santa Ana is coming down tomorrow.-Tuesday. Arborists say it will not survive the rebuild so I have taken , and am rooting, cuttings from it – and […]
Categories : Garden Q & A
Question from Ron: This is our first year in new home with spendid landscaping near Lake Murray in La Mesa. Large morus alba has been pollarded over the years annually by previous owners. How close to “knuckles” should I cut the old growth back now that the tree is defoliated? Answer from Pat: Pollarding, as […]
Categories : Trees
Tomato Blossom End Rot and Drip Systems
Posted by Pat Welsh
· Wednesday,
April
3rd,
2013
at 12:06 AM
Question from Walt: Thanks for the very informative presentation at the Del Mar Garden Club. You did make a statement for which I need a little more info. You stated for tomatoes NOT to use a drip irrigation system. I have planted grafted tomatoes and would like to know what’s wrong with such a system. […]
Categories : Vegetables & Fruits
Gardening Question from Deborah: My bacon avocado tree has been droping fruit off the tree the last couple of weeks, and (does not) ripen until nov., the beginning of dec. I don’t know what the problem is. Thought maybe you could help? Answer from Pat: Summer drop of immature fruit is normal on avocado. Some […]
Categories : Citrus & Fruit Trees
Question from Kevin: I live in Simi Valley, Southern California. I have citrus and I love to grow all kinds of eatable foods. I have been picking away at my entire backyard for some 5 years now, trying to create a good food system. I need help from a pro, what books can you suggest […]
Categories : Uncategorized
Question from Chuck: I have a 5 year old peach tree that suffered a deer scrape to the trunk, not the branches. The trunk is about 4 inchs in diameter and the antlers scraped deep into both sides of the trunk below where it starts to branch out. This happened in mid winter. Someone told […]
Categories : Trees
Question from Cynthia: Hello! I live in an apartment and have a balconey. I’d like to have a plant/tree that would attract hummingbirds. Can you give me some suggestions? Answer from Pat: I suggest Fuchsia ‘Gartenmeister Bonstedt’, cigar plant (Cuphea ignea) or red coral plant (Russellia equisetiformiis.) All are long-blooming and easy to grow in […]
Categories : Garden Q & A
Question from Trece: Can you name this plant that is attracting the hummingbirds please. I can’t remember the name of it. Answer from Pat: This looks like Salvia ‘Indigo Spires’ to me, but you didn’t give me much to go on!
Categories : Garden Q & A
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