This Week In the Garden - 2019
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Squirrels Eating Pansies
This week in the garden University of Memphis Director of Landscaping Joellen Dimond finds some uprooted pansies that have been partially eaten. She says squirrels eat pansies. They will uproot the plants and possibly eat the entire plant. Replant the pansies that were uprooted and use a deer deterrent to keep the squirrels away.
Related Resources: Tree Squirrels: Managing Habitat and Controlling Damage |
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Callaloo
This week in the garden Jef Terry, Operations Manager at Bobby Lanier Farm Park in Germantown, Tennessee shows a callaloo plant. It is also called Amaranth. The young leaves can be harvested and cooked as a green.
Related Resources: Amaranth |
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Removing the Seed from Jamaican Sorrel
This week in the garden Jef Terry, Operations Manager at Bobby Lanier Farm Park in Germantown, Tennessee shows how to remove the seed from Jamaican sorrel or roselle using a milkshake straw.
Related Resources: Roselle: A useful and beautiful addition to your garden or landscape Roselle (Hibiscus sabdariffa L.) Production and Marketing in New Jersey |
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Powdery Mildew on Zinnias
This week in the garden UT Extension Agent Chris Cooper finds some powdery mildew on the zinnias and talks about how to prevent it next year.
Related Resources: Powdery Mildews Powdery mildew in the flower garden |
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Included Tree Bark
This week in the garden Certified Arborist Wes Hopper shows how included bark in a tree crotch can create a stain on the trunk.
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Saving Colocasia (Elephant Ears) for Next Year
This week in the garden University of Memphis Director of Landscape Joellen Dimond shows how to prepare Colocasia – commonly called Elephant Ears – for winter storage. If done correctly they can be replanted next spring for another year of growth.
Related Videos: Planting Sunpatiens, Joseph's Coat, and Colocasia Related Resources: Elephant Ears (Colocasia, Alocasia, and Xanthosoma) Storing and saving tender plant bulbs during winter |
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Dividing Cannas
This week in the garden Horticultural Expert Dr. Lelia Kelly shows how to dig up a canna lily and divide it. Fall is the best time to divide and transplant spring and summer blooming perennials.
Related Resources: Cannas for the Home Landscape Dividing Perennials |
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Pruning Tools Overview
This week in the garden Memphis Botanic Garden Arborist Bo Kelley talks about the different pruning tools available and shows how to use some of them to remove dead branches from a tree.
Related Resources: Tree Pruning Essentials Pruning Landscape Trees |
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Summer Flower Garden Check-Up
This week in the garden UT/TSU Extension Agent Joellen Dimond takes a look at the summer flowers planted in April. The salvia has not done well. The petunias did well but need more fertilizer. The vinca started slow but have done very well later in the summer.
Watch Joellen plant these flowers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zU3nCIOao5g Related Videos: Planting Fall Flowers Fall and Winter Flowers Fall Garden Problems Related Resources: Vegetable Gardening and Season Extension Selecting and Growing Perennials |
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Why is One Plant Dying?
This week in the garden University of Memphis Director of Landscape Joellen Dimond tries to figure out why one plant in the middle of the flower bed is dying. It turns out that even though the bed is irrigated this plant is not getting any water. It will have to be hand watered.
Related Videos: Watch Joellen plant these flowers this spring Related Resources: Watering Guidelines Soil texture determines how much and how often to water |
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Killing Japanese Beetles
This week in the garden UT/TSU Extension Agent Joellen Dimond shows how to use soapy water to kill Japanese beetles. By putting them soapy water, where they drown, the beetles do not release the pheromone which attracts other beetles to their location.
Related Resources: The Japanese Beetle Japanese Beetles in the Urban Landscape |
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Splitting Tomatoes
This week in the garden UT extension agent Chris Cooper talks about cracking tomatoes. This condition is often caused by uneven moisture. The tomato is still edible. It is only a cosmetic issue.
Related Resources: What Causes Tomatoes to Crack? Disorders of tomato |
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Other Pollinators in the Butterfly Garden
This week in the garden UT Extension Entomologist Frank Hale takes a look at all the pollinators and other insects that benefit from the flowers in the butterfly garden. The blooms provide food to many kinds of pollinating flies, bees, parasitic wasps, and even ladybugs.
Related Videos: Planting a Butterfly Garden Related Resources: Butterfly Gardening Gardening for Butterflies |
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Planting Annuals in the Butterfly Garden
This week in the garden UT Extension Agent Joellen Dimond plants petunias, zinnia and lantana in the butterfly garden. The herbs and annuals are also doing well.
Related Resources: Butterfly Gardening Gardening for Butterflies |
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Removing Suckers from the Trunk of an Oak Tree Canker
This week in the garden UT Extension Agent Chris Cooper shows how to remove small branches from the trunk of an oak tree. He also finds a possible canker in the trunk of the tree.
Related Resources: Cleaning the Canopy Training and Pruning Your Home Orchard |
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Moving Fire Ants Without Chemicals
This week in the Garden UT Extension Agent Chris Cooper shows how to get a fire ant mound to move without chemicals. Fire ants like to be left alone. If you disturb the mound every day the ants will move.
Related Resources: Managing Fire Ants Fire Ant Control in Two Easy Steps |
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Tying up Tomato Plants
This week in the garden UT Extension Agent Chris Cooper shows how to tie up a tomato plant. Tomatoes are very susceptible to blights which live in the soil. Tying up the plant with a soft piece of cloth gets the leaves and fruits off the ground, makes the plant easier to take care of, and reduces blight.
Related Resources: Training Tomato Plants Pruning Tomato Plants |
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Spring Butterfly Garden Clean-Out
This week in the garden TSU Extension Agent Joellen Dimond cleans out the butterfly garden to get it ready for this year. The perennials survived the winter and she prunes off the dead branches. She also removes the dead annuals. She will come back soon and plant new annuals for the butterflies.
Related Video: Planting a Butterfly Garden |
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Did The Soil Drench Work
This week in the garden, TSU Extension Agent Joellen Dimond looks at some shrubs that were infested with scale last year. When the scale was discovered, the shrubs were treated with the systemic insecticide imidacloprid. They look healthy and scale free this year. One shrub was not treated. It looks to be in bad condition.
Related Resources: Crepe Myrtle Bark Scale Identification and Control Pesticide Injection and Drenching |
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Spring Blackberry Care
This week in the garden, retired UT Extension Agent, Mike Dennison, does spring maintenance on the blackberries. He trains some of the vines that are growing outside the trellis. Then he fertilizes the plants. He also prunes off a few dead branches.
Related Resources: Blackberies and Raspberries in Home Gardens Growing Blackberries for Pleasure and Profit |
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Hairy Bittercress
This week in the garden UT Extension Agent Chris Cooper shows off his favorite weed, hairy bittercress. It has exploding seed pods that can throw a seed ten feet when it is brushed.
Related Resources: Weed of the Month: Hairy Bittercress Hairy Bittercress (Cardamine hirsuta) |
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Refreshing Winter Annuals
This week in the Garden Kim Rucker, the greenhouse manager at Dixon Gallery and Gardens shows how to make annuals, in this case dusty miller look better after a long winter. She trims ragged looking branches at the base of the plant revealing new growth underneath.
Related Videos: Planting the Dusty Millers Pruning Flowering Annuals |
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