If you have shrubs and trees that outgrow their selected spot, begging to dominate your entire yard, this is the video for you. It is the first in a series by Plant Amnesty, an organization created with the sole purpose of ridding the world of bad pruning forever.
The 2018 Master Gardener Yard and Garden Lectures will be held Saturday mornings from 10:00am to12:15 pm, January 13-February 17, 2018, at the Port Townsend Community Center on Tyler Street Uptown. Series tickets are $55 and can be purchased at Henery’s Garden Center or brownpapertickets.com. On January 13, Marty Wingate will present a lecture titled Gardens and […]
By Dr. Mercola video One of the most important strategies for improving your health is to grow your own food. However, that may not be so easy if you’re unaware of the importance of soil microbes. Wendy Taheri is a research microbiologist, to whom I was introduced via Gabe Brown, a farmer in North […]
by Kris De Decker, originally published by Low-tech Magazine | JAN 6, 2016 We are being told to eat local and seasonal food, either because other crops have been tranported over long distances, or because they are grown in energy-intensive greenhouses. But it wasn’t always like that. From the sixteenth to the twentieth century, […]
By Dr. Mercola http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2016/01/23/saving-seeds-movement.aspx Seeds are essential to maintain future food supplies. They are the foundation of life, from fruits and vegetables to grain and livestock feed — without them, we have no food. It’s estimated that upwards of 90 percent of our caloric intake comes from seeds, directly or indirectly. Seeds represent hope and […]
Robin (class of 2015) put together a really nice list of references for a plant clinic client who is interested in planting as much native as possible on her 1 acre lot: It was nice talking to you, and welcome to the Marrowstone Community! Here are the references, websites, and contacts that I told you I’d […]
contributed by Sarah F. Heads up for these new bugs on the block! Their scientific name is Rhyparochromis vulgaris. A common name is tuxedo bug. They are appearing in large numbers all around the Puget Sound area. They live outside in mulch, stumps, woody debris piles and are fast runners. They like to come into the house […]
submitted by Kathy R. We had a great tour of the Dahlias. About 20 people came on a wonderful warm afternoon. Ron R. had a handout of the care of Dahlias and answered questions. We had ice tea and cookies as well. Thank you, Charlie V., for the following photos:
A client brought in this really yucky sample of a camellia. I have never seen a sample with such obvious and such advanced problems. The spider was just along for the ride. We found out that the sample has both cottony camellia scale and sooty mold. The scale insect makes honeydew which then grows the sooty […]
