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Hope you all can help. Just receivedsome Marion Berry vines. I am in NW Arizona. High nintie degrees in summers high twenties in winter. Any advise as to where to plant. Full sun? or because of our heat should I find a shadier location? I usually plant in a mix of mulches and planting...

With everyones help here I finally determined that I had a really bad aphid problem on my squash. All my squash plants, that are usually my pride and joy when all else fails, wilted, dried up and never produced really great this year. I pulled them all and replanted with more squash two weeks...

I am not very good at taking close up pics. I have search the web but cannot find out what kind of bug this is. It is about 1/4 inch long black with two horizontal orange stripes. When it moves it reminds be of a tram made up of two cars sort of long and jointed in the middle. They are all...

I have these little black specks all over my squash plants. Very heavy on the underside of the leaves and they attack the blooms before they open causing the blossom to not open. I have been fighting them all season with Sevin with limited success. Squash harvet has been OK but not what I am...

Is there anything special I need to look for that tells me my spaghetti squash is ready to harvest?

Hi Everyone: I have a three year old plum tree. It has it's first crop (3) of plums this year. Over the course of a week, something has stripped almost all the leaves from the tree. The leaves have been removed where the leaf connects to the tree. New leaves are growing in, the three plums...

Are there any herbs that should not be planted with potatoes? I have my potatoes in a raised bed and thought I might also try planting some herbs with the potatoes. Are there any herb no-no's. Thanks!!

Well, I messed up. I planted garlic this spring. Did not realize it should be planted in the fall. Now what do I do? Thanks!!!

Hi all: My spinach has bolted. Can I still harvest the big leaves for freezing? Thanks for your help.

I hope you experts can help. I finally got a friend of mine to start a raised bed vegetable garden. Her husband thought he would help and sprayed the entire area where she was to put her raised beds with a commercial weed killer-something he got at work. YIKES. Can she still put her raised...

Need some advice...one wall of my garden is a metal, beige painted wall 8 feet tall. I am in NW Arizona so that metal wall gets hot in the summer. Is there a veggies I can grow up on a trellis against this metal wall. Thanks for the advise.

Hi everyone: I ordered and received bareroot fruit trees from Gurney. They provided Boron to put around the trees after they have been in the ground 3 weeks. I planted bare root grapes from home depot about 4 weeks ago. Will Boron be beneficial for grapes also or will it hurt the grapes? The...

Hi everyone: About 1 month ago I bought a few bags (plastic) of asperagus crowns and strawberry crowns. I completely forgot and just found the bag. Are these crowns still viable or have I killed them? Thanks for your help!!

Planted romaine and red sail lettuce I got at Home Depot last week. Last night it got down to 28. I covered the bed and put a kerosene lantern on very low underneath also. Lettuce did great. Tonight it is suppose to be about 31, is the cover sufficient or do I need to put the kerosene...