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Podcast: Fruit Tree Care with Darren Butler

Continue ReadingPodcast: Fruit Tree Care with Darren Butler

C. Darren Butler is more than a tree expert. Yes, he's a certified and consulting arborist. But he's also a Master Gardener, an ecological landscape designer, and a landscape consultant. In this week's podcast, we chat with Darren about proper tree planting techniques and tree care. We also cover his online gardening resource for Southern California, GardenZeus. Darren Butler - photo by Frankie Louise Listen to the Podcast Here Subscribe to the Gardenerd Tip of the Week Podcast on Apple…

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Ask Gardenerd: Decreased Production in Planter Beds

Continue ReadingAsk Gardenerd: Decreased Production in Planter Beds

Vidya writes in to Ask Gardenerd with a problem we've been dealing with for awhile: decreased production in raised beds. She writes, "For five years I have been growing flowers and vegetables in my garden. The first few years, I had amazing yields...Slowly, the plants became shorter and weaker, and this year, I barely had any fruit...I believe that we attracted all of the neighboring trees to send roots into our garden. After scouring the internet for solutions, I found…

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Ask Gardenerd: Tree Roots in my Garden

Continue ReadingAsk Gardenerd: Tree Roots in my Garden

A great question came in this week to Ask Gardenerd: "It's Yvette from Mar Vista!!! I have a BURNING QUESTION!!! We have a big big rainbow eucalyptus tree in our front yard that is causing big, big problems with our raised beds...the roots (mostly small tangly ones) keep invading and stealing all the water and nutrients from them and we had a horrible harvest...we want to put in a root barrier but we don't know anything about it. Might you…

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