Homeowner Forum / Lawn and Garden / August 2008

Hey Y'all!
Does anyone have any tips on how to get rid of fruit flies? The kids and
I were gone for the weekend and left the hubby at home to tend to the
farm. While we were gone he decided to cut open a watermelon and then

V. Robert's Delight x 2:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/28721677@N06/2771533833/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/28721677@N06/2771533553/
And Ascda. Golden Magic 'Meechai' x2:

Should I prune or let it go.  Hail hit and  we have much plant life
with holes.
 I am in inclined  to look forward to next year.  Our perennials with
stood the storm but annuals did poorly.  

I have 3 new picturs at flickr.  http://www.flickr.com/photos/kbarrett/
I htink the link will work...
K Barrett

I have some early tomatoes that either need to be eaten or put up, but it's
not really enough to run a canning batch.  I've also got tons of green ones
still on the plants.  I'd like to save the early ones until the green ones
are ripe too.  How about freezing the ripe ones until ...

Those German wasps are prolific little blighters!  We found several were
coming into the tea room and its garden and the nest was rapidly tracked
down to our log shelter.  That's mere yards, as the wasp flies, from the
nest found earlier.  One of the dogs was stung over the eye ...

OK, there was a thread on this last year, but I'm not sure we got
closure on it.
What's the most effective way to do tomato cuttings? I took six inch
young stems off a very healthy overgrown red cherry, and stuck them

I have some mushrooms growing on my front lawn.  Not the usual kind
that look like the ones you'd put on pizza, (they LOOK like those).
These mushrooms look like brains, (really!)  
I dig them up, and they take divots out of my lawn that are 6" deep.

Many tree problems are associated with the following: They are Case
Sensitive.
Unhealthy Trees from the Nursery / Improper Planting
http://www.treedictionary.com/DICT2003/T/tree_planting.html

For those of you who are searching for a remedy for moles, have tried
all the folk remedies without success. let me give you the answer.
I have been pestered by the little blighters for years, on and off.
This year particularly bad. After lots of research on the net, I came

I've had English walnut trees for years but seldom get nuts.  Now I
have a few that I managed to rescue from the squirrels and have husked
them.  Nuts look fully formed but nutmeat is soft and somewhat
bitter.  Question I have, is will they become more edible on drying

Can anyone recommend a good general website which will give me advice as to
year-round care of plants in my garden (Perennial shrubs etc). I never know
which ones to cut back (or when) and which to leave. I giuess it's a kind of
idiot's guide i'm looking for!

generally instructions for growing tomatoes tell you to stop the plant
after the fourth truss.
In the past I have seen plants in late August in a nice warm greenhouse
with no leaves and the last few tomatoes ripening on the fourth truss.

Has anyone else noticed how many weeds grow in the new peat free alternative
composts ?
This year seems to be worse than last, growing annuals from seed I am
constantly trying to weed within a couple of centimetres from plants without

I am going to repot my tahiti lime. i just got it, and it doesnt loo
like an overly happy tree, and upon removing it from the pot to chec
the roots, i see they are circling around the pot. i have enclosed
couple of pics. i intend to get this lime growing strong! i know the