Frequently Asked Homeowner Questions

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1. Do we bring soil samples to your office?
2. When is the best time to prune grapes?
3. How do you get rid of moles?
4. How much grass seed do I put to an acre for a lawn?
5. When do I kill bermuda grass?
6. How do I kill English Ivy?
7. When is best time to plant fescue?
8. Which is the best fescue variety for this area?
9. When is the best time to set out shrubs and trees?
10. Does your office sell pine seedlings?
11. How do you kill crabgrass in the summer?
12. How much lime do I put on my yard?
13. What is the disease that is killing my red tips?
14. What makes a good screen for my house?
15. What is causing my azaleas to turn yellow?
16. What causes dogwood blooms to turn brown in the spring?
17. Why are all of my trees dying?
18. What is a good tomato variety?
19. What is the hottest pepper variety?
20. How much mulch should I put around my shrubs?
21. When is the best time to spray peaches?
22. Can I prune my trees now?
23. How long do you put a poinsettia in the dark to make it turn red?
24. When is the best time to trim Christmas trees?
25. Can we grow frasier fir in Rowan County?
26. What can I do to make my soil richer?
27. How far apart do I plant my squash?
28. My squash are suddenly wilted, what is the problem?
29. How do I kill bagworms on my junipers?
30. I want a list of plants that bloom for each month; can you name them?
31. How do I make my hydrangea turn blue? pink?
32. What is the stickly stuff falling from my silver maple?
33. Can you come out and look at my dead tree and tell me what killed it?
34. What do I spray my roses with to control the Japanese beetles?
35. How much straw do I put down to mulch newly seeded lawns?
36. How much ryegrass do I mix with fescue for my lawn?
37. There are bats in my attic. How do I get them out?
38. What plants attract butterflies and birds during the summer?
39.When do I dig my potatoes?
40. How do I keep worms out of my sweet corn.
41. How much fertilizer do I put on my green beans?
42. How do I kill yellow jackets in my lawn?
43. How do I know if I have termites under my house?
44. Can I use sawdust in my garden?
45. Can I use leaves in my garden now?
46. When do I fertilize my strawberry plants?
47. What do I spray peach trees with in the summer?
48. Where can I purchase beneficial insects?
49. My child has eaten part of a plant. Is it poisonous?
50. How do I control chickweed in my lawn?
51. How do I keep the worms out of my crowder peas?
52. Why are my squash blooming and I have no fruit?
53. What causes my tomatoes to rot on the end?
54. How far apart do you set liriope in landscape?
55. What do you use to kill poison ivy on trees?
56. When do I spray dormant oil on fruit trees?
57. How do you tell when a pumpkin is ripe?
58. Why are my boxwoods yellow?
59. What do I do to keep my American boxwoods from getting leaf miners?
60. When do I prune my pecans?
61. Why do the figs on my bush not get ripe?
62. What is a good plant for hanging baskets that can tolerate full sun?
63. What causes the leaves to fall from my ficus tree?
64. What is a good house plant food?
65. How do I kill the grass in my flower beds?
66. How do I kept crabgrass from my lawn?
67. What causes dark spots on my apples?
68. What causes peaches to rot just before they ripen?
69. How much fertilizer do I use on my yard?
70. When is the best time to repot my house plants?
71. When do I plant my bulbs?
72. Can I take cuttings of my shrubs now?
73. Which mulch is best to use around my shrubs?
74. How do I keep the rabbits out of my garden?
75. Which is the best fertilizer to use for my lawn?
76. How do you kill fleas in the house?
77. What kills plant lice on roses?

78. When is the best time to repot houseplants?
79. How do you get rid of moss in the yard?
80. How do you make squirrels leave the garden?
81. What is the best variety of Irish potatoes to plant in this area?
82. How long does it take to get a soil sample back?
83. What are the black growths on my plum?
84. Do you have to cut down the tree if it has tent caterpillars?
85. Will any type of paint work on pruned cuts?
86. Where do you get super-phosphate?
87. How much horse manure should I put on my garden?
88. How do I kill grub worms in the lawn?
89. What is the best way to kill kudzu?
90. What is the plants that float on top of ponds?
91. When is the best time to take house plants outdoors?
92. Is fall the best time to prune trees?
93. When is the latest I can plant a fall garden?
94. When is the best time to prune roses.
95. Can I transplant volunteer pecan or apple trees?
96. Does lightning damage the soil?
97. Why are my white pines dying?
98. What makes the leaves on the holly drop in the spring?
99. How do you kill liriope?
100. What keeps grass out of flower beds all summer?
101. When is the best time to water a garden?
102. Will hostas live in sunny areas?
103. When is the best time to prune azaleas?
104. What is the best organic fertilizer for azaleas and camellias?
105. What are those black caterpillars that are eating my oak trees?
106. What causes the jelly-like substance at the base of my peach tree?
107. How do you control white peach scale?
108. Does your office take old or unused pesticides?
109. Which fig variety grows best in our area?
110. My tomato plant grows well but bares no fruit. What should I do?
111. Can I cut my lawn closer than 3 inches?
112. Which grass grows best in the shade?
113. Will sevin kill cabbage worms?
114. What is the best broccoli variety for this area?
115. The leaves on my beans turn black and fall off. What can I do?
116. What makes the leaves fall off my maple? It looks like fall!
117. What causes dark dead circles in my lawn?
118. What can I do to get rid of mushrooms in the front yard?
119. When do I side-dress my tomato plants?
120. When can I plant pansies?
121. What is the best plant for full sun that blooms all summer and perennial?
122. Can I lime in the summer?
123. What causes those funny spots on peaches?
124. Can I prune my dogwood in the summer?
125. How do you plant asparagus?
126. My trees have done well so far but seem to be loosing leaves. What is the problem?
127. Clematis vines are not blooming. How can I stimulate blooms?
128. When do you renovate strawberry plants?
129. Does your office still sell strawberries?
130. I have a scuppernong vine that will not bare fruit. What should I do to enable the vine to bare fruit?
131. Rhodendrons are dying slowly plant by plant. Is there anything I can do to help?
132. I have a wasp nest in the eave of my house. Do you come out and spray wasp and hornet nests?
133. Will frost on sweet potatoes damage the roots?
134. Is there another variety of sweet corn other than Silver Queen?
135. How do you tell when a cantaloupe is ripe?
136. What will kill crickets around the home?

 

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