Summer Gardening Tips
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Article by: Michael McGroarty Don't be afraid to trim those flowering shrubs , Spring Gardening Tips and trees , Organic Gardening - The Pros And Cons that need it. Failure to prune , Preaparing Your Plants For Winter is probably the biggest gardening , Safe Pest Control Tips mistake a person can make. I spent 20 years landscaping homes , An Outdoor Swing is A Great Way to Relax and businesses, and I watched people make the investment in my services, then they failed to prune , Gardening Soil when the plants , Maintaining Water Quality in a Garden Pond needed it, and before you know it their landscape , Safe Pest Control Tips looked terrible. If you make a mistake pruning, , Do Garden Statues Have a Place in a Modern Garden? don't worry about it. It's like a bad haircut, it will grow , Wildlife in Winter Ponds out. Of course use common sense and read the previous articles that I've written on pruning. , Spring Gardening Tips Along with summertime comes high humidity. High humidity can cause a lot of problems with the plants , Landscaping Tips: What Mulch to Use for Trees in your garden , Spruce Budworm and around your house. , Sowing an Annual Flower Border One of the simple things you can do is don't water , Landscaping Tips: What Mulch to Use for Trees just before dark. Make sure your plants , Maintaining Water Quality in a Garden Pond are nice and dry when you tuck them in for the night and you can cut down on the chance of fungus being a problem. One of the more common fungi that I get asked about a lot is powdery mildew. This appears as a white , Managing the Hobby Greenhouse film on the leaves of ornamental plants. , Redwood Outdoor Decor: Relax This Season With Furniture You Can Trust Dogwoods and Purple Sandcherry are often the victim of powdery mildew. Powdery mildew isn't extremely harmful to the plants, , How to Find and Work With a Porch Swing Contractor To Install the Porch Swing of Your Dreams it's just that the foliage is damaged, and little growing , Patio Design and Patio Furniture - The Use of Focal Points takes place , Your Home is Your Fortress: the Art of Garden Fencing once it sets in. Your local garden , How to Create a Zen center will have a general fungicide you can spray if you'd like to try and control it. Usually once the plant , How to Create a Zen Garden defoliates in the fall , Gardening Soil the plant , Do Garden Statues Have a Place in a Modern Garden? is back to normal. If you have Perennial , Artificial Flowers Are They A Solution? Rye Grass , Landscape Gardening in your lawn, , Sowing an Annual Flower Border and you probably do if you're in the north, you must be careful not to leave your grass , How to Grow Cucumbers wet at night. There is a fungus known as Pythium Blight that appears in very humid conditions. This fungus attacks and kills perennial , Compost: Food for the Soil rye grasses. , How to Find and Work With a Porch Swing Contractor To Install the Porch Swing of Your Dreams Here in the north most of our lawns , Orchid Myths -The Truth are a blend of fescues, perennial , Gardening Soil ryes, and Kentucky Blue Grass. , How to Find and Work With a Porch Swing Contractor To Install the Porch Swing of Your Dreams If you have problems with Pythium blight you will lose the perennial , Bamboo Plant Information and Care rye grass , Tips for Planting an Outdoor Herb Garden in large areas of your lawn, , Preaparing Your Plants For Winter and even though the other grasses , Pine Furniture Care Guide will still be there and fill in, your lawn , Pine Furniture Care Guide will have areas that are much darker green , Preaparing Your Plants For Winter than the rest of the lawn , Why Patio Benches are a Great Place to Relax and Enjoy because you will then have concentrations of Kentucky Blue Grass. , Pine Furniture Care Guide You can see this fungus in the early morning. It looks like white , Hydroponics Gardening verses Organic Gardening: Which Grows the Best Cannabis? cotton candy laying on top of your lawn. , Set Yourself Apart: Create Your Own Wind Chime Garden It usually appears along walks and driveways where the soil , Redwood Outdoor Decor: Relax This Season With Furniture You Can Trust is wet if you have been watering. To prevent Pythium blight water , Lighting your Garden with Perennial Bulbs as early in the day as possible. Another nasty little blight that likes summertime is Fire , Lighting your Garden with Perennial Bulbs Blight. Fire , Teak Furniture - How to Care for it Properly Blight attacks ornamentals, especially Apple trees, , Landscape and Outdoor Lighting - Less is Definitely More Crabapple trees, , Landscape Gardening Cotoneasters, and Pyracantha. You know you have Fire , Redwood Outdoor Decor: Relax This Season With Furniture You Can Trust Blight when a branch on one of your plants , Maintaining Water Quality in a Garden Pond dies and turns almost red. The leaves usually hang on but turn reddish brown. The damage usually starts out near the end of the branch and works its way toward the main stem of the plant. , Artificial Flowers Are They A Solution? There is little you can do except prune , Teak Furniture - How to Care for it Properly out the affected branch, cutting it as far back as possible. Fire Blight is very contagious to plants , Japanese Garden Lights Bring Tranquillity to your Garden and Peace to your Body and Mind so you should burn the branches you prune , Growing Great Potatoes out. You should also dip or wash your pruning , Landscape and Outdoor Lighting - Less is Definitely More shears in rubbing alcohol after each cut to keep from spreading this deadly fungus. Unfortunately, I've got one more summertime culprit to warn you about. It's a handy little fungus that grows , Safe Pest Control Tips in mulch. Actually there are all kinds of fungi that tend to grow , Japanese Garden Lights Bring Tranquillity to your Garden and Peace to your Body and Mind in mulches, and most of them are really disgusting looking. But this little gem is unique in the fact that as it grows , Spruce Budworm it tends to swell. Then somehow it manages to explode, and it will spatter your house , Maintaining Water Quality in a Garden Pond with tiny brown specks. The experts have appropriately named this one "Shotgun Fungus". Isn't that a cute name? These tiny little brown specks will fly as high as eight feet into the air, , Spring Rose Care - The Easy Way and once they stick to your house , Sowing an Annual Flower Border or windows, , Managing the Hobby Greenhouse they stick like glue. I know that right now there are people hollering across the house , Spruce Budworm at their spouse, "Hey, remember those brown specks all over the house? I know what they are. It's from the mulch!" Tell me I'm wrong, but I know I'm not. A lot of people are victims of this nasty little fungus, but they don't know it. All they know is that there are tiny brown specks on the house , Why Patio Benches are a Great Place to Relax and Enjoy that look like paint. , Container Vegetable Gardening - The Easy Way To A Mouth-Watering Harvest So far they have blamed everything from spiders to aliens. There's not a lot you can do to prevent this fungus. I have found that if you keep the mulch loose so air , Landscape and Outdoor Lighting - Less is Definitely More can circulate it is less likely to grow , How to Pick Up the Most Necessary Gardening Tools? fungi. Don't just keep adding layer after layer to the mulch around your house. , Flowers Guide You should skip at least every other year and just loosen the mulch you already have down. If you loosen it and then rake it flat , Safe Pest Control Tips it will look like you've just mulched. Mulch is great, just don't let it get packed down hard. Loosen it up at least once a year. You are welcome to use this article on your website or in your newsletter as long as you reprint it as is, including the contact information , Orchid Myths -The Truth at the end. Website URLs must be active links. You are welcome to use this article with an affiliate link, http://www.freeplants.com/resellers.htmMichael J. McGroarty is the author of this article. Visit his most interesting website, http://www.freeplants.com and sign up for his excellent gardening , Why a Flower Bed Should Look Bare When You First Plant It newsletter. Article provided by http://gardening-articles.com |
  
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