How to Use Hydretain In Landscape Instillation
Installing features on a landscape is time consuming, so you want to make sure you get things right the first time. Replacements and return work can be expensive, damage your
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Joe’s Journal, Summer Edition: On Mulches and Mulching for Improving Plant Resiliency
(or, Mulch Ado About Nothing!) A mulch is a material that covers the earth. In woodlands, fallen leaves form an organic mulch. Organic mulches are food for “worms”, which here
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Joe’s Journal, Spring Edition – Spring Shrub Planting
Spring is an ideal time to plant trees and shrubs! Plants purchased from local nurseries are offered as container-grown or dug (ball & burlap) plants. The advantage of container grown
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How Plant Growth Regulators Make Landscaping Easier
If you haven’t already, you should consider adding plant growth regulators (PGRs) to your arsenal of tools this season when dealing with landscapes and maintenance. As the name implies, they
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How to Correctly Manage Plant Growth Regulator
Plant growth regulators such as Shortstop® 2SC have a wide range of secondary effects; while their primary effect is to encourage more root growth, it also leads to thicker leaves,
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Joe’s Journal, Spring Edition – The Art of Transplanting Trees: How Trees are Machine Dug in the Nursery and How to Plant in the Landscape
In the blog two weeks ago entitled The Art of Transplanting Trees for Both the Avid Gardener and the Interested Professional, we discussed digging trees by two methods: using bare
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Joe’s Journal: Winter Edition – The Art of Transplanting Trees for Both the Avid Gardener and the Interested Professional
Late winter-early spring is the time to transplant trees. Here, we will discuss both bare root and ball & burlap techniques. In each case, trees ought to be dug during
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