- Discussing prune cut treatment…..leave it alone in most cases. Jay talks about the few exceptions. With Carol’s treatment in the last segment, she could try spinosad.
Callers:
- Patty – How can she tell that she is picking the right peaches at the grocery store to avoid hard or “mealy” fruit.
Recommendation – It’s very tough to know, but she could find a really good produce manager and try to get an explanation. Maybe, sample a piece of fruit 1st.
*The Arizona Department of Agriculture could direct you to a few local farmer’s markets to hunt for the perfect peach.
- Sharon – She wants to plant african daisies in her yard and wants to know what to add to the soil before she plants.
Recommendation – African daisies don’t need that great of soil, so her husband shouldn’t need to add too much. Some loose sand and plant them late October and early November. Next spring when they burn up and die, rake them around a little to get the seed loose and they’ll come through next year.
- Corky – Her shamel ash tree has burned leaves & he wants to verify that the reasons could be soil in the ground.
Recommendation – It could be salt or desication. Those trees need a lot of water & he could add gypsum to the soil around the tree. It could need a few long, deep soaking. The brown leaves could be unavoildable with the extreme heat of the summer.
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- Can you plant milkweed to encourage monarch butterflies increase their population?
Recommendation – Absuletly, there are all different kinds of plants to help this & the milkweed is definitely one.
Caller:
- Keith – His olive tree is bursting with fruit and is there anyone who could come take them? He’s worried they’ll break the branches on the tree and wants someone to use them.
Recommendation – We’d put out an ad for them on Craigslist. There should be someone who would like to take them up on it.
