This week we are answering viewer questions. Click below to watch or get more information about any of the questions we answered.

• What should you consider before starting a vegetable garden?
• What can I do to stay ahead of squash bugs this year?
• Are grass and weed seeds able to germinate immediately or do they need sunlight?
• Is this a good time to get your soil tested?
• Should I fertilize my shrubs in the spring?
• What’s the best way to get rid of ladybugs in the home?
• Is it to late to use dormant oil?
• Can I power wash a crape myrtle to remove bark scale?
• Will I have fire blight on my pear trees again this year?
• The leaves on my holly are orange. Do I need to be concerned?
• Why is moss growing on my lawn?
• Should I use a pruning sealer?
• Why have my azalea leaves lost their green color?
  

Killing Grass

This week in the garden UT Extension Agent Chris Cooper shows how to use Round-Up to clean up the gravel area around our raised beds.  >>Watch

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This Week In the Garden

Hairy Bittercress
Refreshing Winter Annuals
Is the soil dry enough to till?

Planting Vegetable Seeds

Retired Extension Agent Mike Dennison shows how to plant vegetable seeds in the Family Plot Garden.  >>Watch

Lawn Aeration

UT Extension Agent Booker T. Leigh shows how to aerate your lawn.  >>Watch

Planting Bare Root Strawberries

Retired UT Extension Agent Mike Dennison shows how to plant bare root strawberries. The key is to not let them dry out and plant them at the correct depth.  >>Watch

Annuals and Perennials for the Garden

Choosing the right perennials and annuals for the flower garden can be a challenge. Rick Pudwell Director of Horticulture for Memphis Botanic Garden gives some tips.  >>Watch

Growing Potatoes

Haywood County UT Extension Director Walter Battle talks about the basics of planting and growing potatoes.  >>Watch

Fixing Over-Mulched Trees

Certified Aborist Jim Volgas shows how to fix volcano mulch and what it does to the tree.  >>Watch

Viewer Questions

When will my persimmon tree start fruiting?

If they are American persimmon it takes 6-8 years before they start fruiting on a tree grown from seed – assuming it is a female. >>Watch

What chemical will control purple violet in Bermuda?

Any of the broad-leafed weed killers should do the trick. Retired UT extension agent Mike Dennison names a few options.  >>Watch

Are holly berries poisonous?

Holly berries are not good to eat. Leave them for the birds.  >>Watch

Before my peaches ripen, they shrivel up into brown garbage. Why?

This is brown rot. Mike Dennison says you must spray peaches, plums and nectarines to keep the fruit free from the fungus that causes brown rot.  >>Watch

One branch of my cherry tree has a hole down the middle. What is it?

Mike Dennison thinks this is a secondary infection. He thinks the branch was dead. This could be from the longhorn wood borer.  >>Watch

More Questions & Answers

• What’s wrong with my boxwood?
  
• What is this bark damage on my crape myrtles?
  
• How do I keep the squirrels from stripping the bark off my maple?
• What are these deformations on the bark of my apple tree?
• How do I control small green bugs on petunias?

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