Gardening Tips
Don’t be afraid to trim those flowering shrubs and trees that i spent 20 years landscaping homes and businesses, and I watched people make the investment in my services, then they failed to prune when the plants needed it, and before you know it their landscape looks terrible. If you make a mistake pruning, don’t worry about it. Along with summer time comes high humidity.
High humidity can cause a lot of problems with the plants in your garden and around your house. Powdery mildew isn’t extremely harmful to the plants, it’s just that the foliage is damaged, and little growing takes place once it sets in. Usually once the plant defoliates in the fall the plant is back to normal. If you have Perennial Rye Grass in your lawn, and you probably do if you’re in the north, you must be careful not to leave your grass wet at night. This fungus attacks and kills perennial rye grasses.
Fire Blight attacks ornamentals, especially Apple trees, Crabapple trees, Cotoneasters, and Pyracantha. Fire Blight is very contagious to plants so you should burn the branches you prune out. It’s a handy little fungus that grows in mulch. Then somehow it manages to explode, and it will spatter your house with tiny brown specks. A lot of people are victims of this nasty little fungus, but they don’t know it.
