Joe’s Journal, Summer Edition: Caterpillars and Sawflies
We get plenty of pests in our home garden. It helps to be able to identify what you’ve found, so you know which plants may be at risk and then
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Joe’s Journal, Summer Edition: Seasonal Blooms
Diversity is not only the spice of life, but is its very foundation! In this blog, we will follow the sequence of blooms of the trees, shrubs and perennials in
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Joe’s Journal, Summer Edition: The Fragrant Garden
Landscape garden design involves three elements: form (size, texture), color, and fragrance. Flowering trees, shrubs, and vines waft fragrant and sometimes transcendent olfactory aromatics right at your doorstep, with just
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Joe’s Journal, Summer Edition: Summer Garden Tasks
Long days bring with it the hope of lush growth in the garden and landscape. Of course, lushness is an invite to some unwelcome visitors. Here is a short list
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Joe’s Journal, Summer Edition: The Research Scientist Ventures Afield
Evan Sorger, Research Associate Scientist at Arborjet | Ecologel, took his skills afield visiting our farm plot in Western North Carolina. The goal was to make tree injection applications to
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Joe’s Journal, Spring Edition – Gardening with Granulars
Let’s discuss granular fertilizers! Why even use a granular? And what are some of the ways you can use them in landscape plantings and in potted plant culture? There are
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Joe’s Journal, Spring Edition – The Summer Veg Garden
Here in the Blue Ridge in North Carolina, there are plenty of opportunities to grow vegetables. We have had “spring” since February, and gardening tasks included the planting out of
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Joe’s Journal, Spring Edition: Advances in Tree Injection Technologies
The idea of applying an injected liquid into the vascular system of trees is not new. Leonardo da Vinci was the first to investigate the method in the 15th century!
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Joe’s Journal, Spring Edition: Tree Injection and Follow-up
I have written several blogs about systemic tree injection. The “why” behind injection is to protect trees from destructive pests. The most detrimental are pests that were recently and inadvertently
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Joe’s Journal, Spring Edition: Earth Week
The first earth day was over 50 years ago. In 2010, the Canopy Project was established to reforest the earth and slow the effects of climate change. Since then, over
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