Homeowner Forum / Lawn and Garden / June 2008

We have an acre lot in west central Florida and palmettos are the norm
just about everywhere.  I have dug up some 'infestations' and they
never come back but you have to dig them out completely.  A few places
in our lot the palmettos have sprung up at the base of nice southern

It looks like I may have some squash vine borers and was wondering
if anyone knew of a local source for BT to inject into the vines to kill
off the little bastards.

Well the garden did, the house did, the kids thought it was "kewl" but the
truck has a cracked windshield.
I know we were lucky and the teenaged son was beaned by a pea sized
piece....

On the UKTV Gardens channel (Sky 258), I recently saw a series called
"Geoff Hamilton - a man and his garden".  In this 4-parter, it briefly
mentioned a series he did in '92 called "The Living Garden".  I was
wondering if this series has either been shown recently, or is about

My neighbor has a 6-year old rider with a Kohler engine, he says.
This year, unlike previous years, he finds that as he cuts his
half-acre, the engine wants to cut out.  He suspects gas flow because
he can view the tubing going from the tank to the filter, thence to

My garden is just starting to get ripe slicing size tomatoes and it
turns out we get to share them with the 4 young squirrels we thought
were so cute just yesterday.
We got half of three tomatoes and the squirrels got the other half :-(

I was wondering if anyone else didn't get the June issue as me and my Dad
both didn't get it.

Having lived with a building site garden for 3 years and all th
attention spent on the house, we have just spent a large amount o
money and physical exertion doing our gardens with borders, decora.tiv
stones, decking, huge pots, and large plants and trees.....you name it

I have a 25' carrotwood tree, trunk diameter 7". (See photo One) It was
bifurcated. To prevent splitting, I cut off the smaller of the two trunks
with an almost vertical cut.
http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn96/wer11111/100_2346.jpg

I moved to my current house at the beginning of this year.  There are
couple of trees in the garden, but as we have gone through spring one o
them has failed to grow any leaves.  It did have a small sprout at th
end of one branch right at the beginning of spring but this soon died.

Can anyone identify the bush displayed in the linked images.
It is ball shaped and around 9 feet diameter. Normally at this time of year
it looks like a giant snowball. This year however it looks a little 'sad'
and sparse of blossom. This may be due to the weird seasons we have ...

I have had four pine trees removed, but because of their location the
tree people cannot use the grinder to get rid of the stumps. I would
like to remove them without using harmful chemicals. I heard you could
put lime on them. I could chop them out,but my wife does not like the

I had an email from Cormaic, who is just too busy to post to urg now and it
included this link to his remarks on the paving he saw at Chelsea this year.
It's from his paving expert.com web site.  As people often ask questions on
this subject on here, I thought it would be ...

after checking my runner beans on a regular basis for black fly I see
to find that when I find the black fly there also seems to be a lot o
activity with the ants running up and down the stems,it has occured t
me that the ants seem to be the main carriers of the fly,is ther

I posted this in .edible, but I think that may have been the wrong
board to post too--it's just general; here's the post
Hello,
How do I ID bugs? I should know this by now but I don't. Skip to the