winter garden care

Now is a great time to wonder in the yard to take notes on how the yard did this year. What do you want to change or add for next year? Need some help? Give me a call anytime 360-990-3035.

Pruning

Have you done any pruning yet on your tree's and shrub's? Now is a great time to do some thinning and dead wooding. Please do not top your tree's or shrub's. That just makes more work for you. Give me a call to discuss your needs.

Water your new plants

Did you just put in some new plants this year? Make sure they get plenty of water to get established. Once they are they will take care of themselves.

Don't buy chemicals!

There are better ways to deal with pests and diseases. Take birds for example. It is 7 am and they are singing outside. In my yard I have many feeding stations. What better way for nature to help you with insects. When pruning not to much now, make little areas for the birds to nest and hide. Make some compost piles. More about that latter. If you use chemicals you do damage to all the good creaturs including yourself! You can always e-mail me if you need some help.
Joe
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Pruning

Just a little bit of info when you are pruning. Try to limit your pruning to no more than a third. I see to many times people out there pruning way to much to try keeping it small. It won't work. A plant is programed to get a certain height. Take fruit trees for example. If you prune out the top to much you start to get the umbrella tree. If you want to learn how, give me a call and I will be happy to show you.
Thank you
Joe

IPM for the garden

I just took a 3 day class for the pesticide license from WSU extension and took my test wow so much info! It just opened my eyes about chemicals. I believe we all can have a great garden without those items.
Let me show you how. Use IPM. In my experience everything in IPM starting with seeing the problem then find the ways to correct the problem works instead of just spraying. Give me a call and Iwould be happy to answer any questions.