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Hi all... it's been a while since I've been on here but thought about you all when I was checking my artichoke bush yesterday.. This is a recent infestation and flies were buzzing around it (an unusual number) and when I felt some of the leaves and they were sticky.. This bush is close to 5'...

hey all.. so I started yet another task in my yard.. I started digging up this one plot of dirt that is on the left side of my driveway.. since it’s where all of my utilities come in I had to get the lines mapped by calling 811 so they could map their respective lines. Gas, electric, cable...

i have a short butterfly video I’d like to share but wasn’t sure if the site supports that or if they’re wanted or not.. I suppose I could post it to YouTube and provide a link..? Just wanted to check.. thanks!

This was found growing in my friends community garden plot here in southern Ca.. it kinda looks like celery but she said she didn’t think it was.. she did try eating it and it had a green flavor give or take.. thoughts??

Hi all.. So.. My blackberries, which I've asked here about in the past, are up on the discussion list today. I'm wondering if my overhead watering (via mini drip sprinklers) is the cause of what you see in the pics below. The plants are dying except for those areas not touched by the water...

A friend of mine has a fair amount of rose bushes in her yard and some of them are exhibiting what you see in the attached photo -- some sort of mildew like stuff on the leaves. If it matters, these bushes are sprinkled with sprinklers (not drip) and not sure if that has any impact on whether...

Ok.. I'm not sure if this is the correct forum as none seemed quite right but here goes.. My blueberries in my front yard are all hooked up for drip using the 1/4" soaker lines in a circle config around each plant. I run it daily for 7 minutes currently at about 5am. I'm not convinced that...

Ok.. While checking out the late night creatures in my front yard I ran across this thing running rapidly across my concrete walkway but couldn't get a photo til he was roaming around my wood chips so this image is far from great but is all I have. This spider was at least 2 inches long with...

Ok.. So you've seen my blackberries before and they're doing quite well despite the heat here in the high desert of So-Cal.. It's gonna be a toasty 99F here today -- providing shade goes a long way to help these plants survive here. Regardless, something is coming at night and having a vast...

Ok.. So this is year 2 of my blackberries in my front yard planter. Last year they caned as expected and grew 8-12 feet before the desert winds damaged some of them due to not having them sufficiently tied down to the trellis. Regardless, there are new branches coming out of the ground that...

Hi all... I'm in the high desert of California (northern LA county) and once I dig below about 6-8" of what I assume the home builder put in place 30+ years ago, I hit really hard "soil" -- I use that term loosely. I think its probably clay primarily. Eventually this area where I'm digging...

I planted a blueberry a number of months ago and unfortunately I think I forgot to water it in the heat of the summer. I'm in the northern Los Angeles county high desert area and it gets kinda hot here from time to time -- I think 107f was about the highest I'm aware of. Anyway, I thought I...

I've been away for a handful of years but I always enjoyed his wisdom -- I saw he was last on back in August after having a stroke.. It's been almost 4 months since he was last on.. Just curious if anyone knew how he's doing.. Thanks all...

They're on many branches and slowly killing them The green triangle bugs are recent visitors .. The originals were the non flying crawlers

Hi all! Long time no read. So I'm in Southern California and have an odd weed that is recently shown up in the past year and don't know what it is and need help identifying it.. It's a fairly aggressive grower and spreader and has small thorny like things up and down the main branch in and...

Hi all.. Been away for a while and thought I'd check back in.. We've been working on a few projects in the garden and we are currently setting up our first climbing structure for vining plants.. The first structure (parts of it shown below -- NOT done yet!) will be used for a handful of Golden...

So, our set of 4 month and a half old pullets (lohmann browns) are living in their composting coop/run.. They seem to enjoy it but behave like little school kids much of the day.. They frequently spend most of the mornings in the coop -- NOT the run.. playing in the nesting boxes.. If you go in...

So, I've got a front strip of grass between the sidewalk and the street that is approx. 40'x4' and about 1/2 of it has a nice set of Bermuda grass that is slowly taking over -- ok -- quickly.. What I'd like to do is spend a few hours and a few $$ and make an A-frame style weed collector that...

We just picked up a passion fruit vine at the local farmers market for $20 and it's loaded with green fruit about the size of tennis balls.. I'm under the impression that they should turn purple when ripe since this is the purple variety.. Anyone got one of these that can clue me in? I don't...

So, this Mandarin orange tree (all 4' of it) has been attacked some time ago and is still being attacked.. I'm thinking it's some sort of bug of some sort? The tree recently sent out some nice new growth (about 1.5' of it) and nothing was on those leaves until this past week when I started...