Planting Corn & Composting For Spring

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• Listener planted corn from seed in July that’s grown 5 feet high.  Watered, fertilized and pollinated yet the ears should be bigger.  Stalks have 2 to 4 ears.  Is that normal

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• Preparing a 300-400 square foot area for spring gardening. Dug it 12 feet deep? with no soil.  What do you add to the area to start the composting process

RESOURCE

• Grow Well Organics
• Singh Farm/ South Scottsdale

Weed Control

GUEST

• Ray Lopez of Scottsdale Weed Control

COMMENTARY

• Ray explains how to control this crab grass
• Winter weeds that can crop up. Emphasis on the evasive stinknet weed
  • Yellow globe shaped flower
  • Fuel for fire when it dries out
  • Can take over property rapidly unless controlled
• 2 types of pre emergent: one for lawns, the other for everything else

Artificial Lawns

COMMENTARY

• Reasons to covert to artificial grass
  • Save money from high water bills
  • Insects like mosquitos and ticks don’t live in artificial grass
  • Aesthetic look
  • American manufactured turf is better quality than cheap imported turf
• The ground must be treated first. Eliminate grass and tree roots before turf installation
• Artificial turn around a tree not recommended