Question from Kathy: I have is relative to the bearded iris. I have some lovely gold ones and I just reread what to do after they bloom in your book. Do they require much water and also do you ever fertilize them? I usually put down the organic fertilizer three times a year and just […]
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Question from Dee: This is my first garden and IAm getting these black spots on my bellpeppers. What is the cause of this. Answer from Pat: Black spots on peppers sounds like a bacterial spot disease. I would try spraying with Serenade. It might control the problem but won’t cure it. Wet weather and moist […]
Categories : Vegetables & Fruits
Gardening Question from Dee: I emaied you about shallots before.I washed them after I pulled them up but it seems like some of the skins came off.What is the best way to wash without pulling off skins? I planted them in spring( sets)some of them grew but others didn’t.I live in Southern Mississippi zone 9.I […]
Categories : Vegetables & Fruits
Question from Charlie: I am trying to identify a small bulb that I thought was cute when it first arrived in the soil of another plant. Now I think it is a weed – very prolific. I suspect it is in the oxalis family: 3 lobed leaf, red stem, pretty pink flower that is petunia-like […]
Categories : Gardening Tip
Question from Sally: Which of your books would be best for a novice San Diego vegetable gardener. Many thanks – buying one of your books for Christmas gift. Answer from Pat: “Pat Welsh’s Southern California Organic Gardening, Month by Month”, published by Chronicle Books, covers vegetable gardening in every chapter. This is the best book […]
Categories : Vegetables & Fruits
Question from Debbie: Is it possible to purchase an artichoke at the supermarket, put the stem in water and have it bloom or flower? You know, like you can do with roses? Answer from Pat: Unfortunately by the time an artichoke has been cut from the plant and shipped to a store it is too […]
Categories : Vegetables & Fruits
Why Did I Get So Few Melons? (Pollination of Melon Plants, by Hand or By Bees)
Posted by Pat Welsh
· Thursday,
December
8th,
2011
at 03:50 AM
Question from Andy: I live in an interior climate zone of Southern California. Last year I planted watermelons but I only got one melon per plant. The melons I got were great, but why did I get so few? Answer from Pat: Dear Andy: You are not the only gardener who has told me they […]
Categories : Bees, Vegetables & Fruits
Question from Llyana: First of all thank you so much for your book, Southern California Gardening-Month by Month. I can’t tell you how much I rely on it and have learned so much that it has become the only book I recommend for San Diegan gardening friends. Here’s the thing, my daughter just bought her […]
Categories : Garden Q & A
Question from Madonna: Wow! I AM ACTUALLY TALKING TO YOU?? Really?? I use your 1992 So CA month by month gardening guide book as as a staple. (I have been mentally talking to you for years and wishing I could meet and talk to you.) Just now hitting on this site and then told I […]
Categories : Vegetables & Fruits
Question from Heather: thank you for your very detailed answer to my husband’s question about planting trees in a parkway. While he and I agree on many aspects of our garden, we differ in opinion about what type of tree to plant in front of our small traditional style house. I love the California Pepper […]
Categories : Trees
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