1997 Southwest Yard & Garden Archives

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• December 29, 1997
  • Windowsill cactus problems

• December 15, 1997
  • Growing bananas in New Mexico

• December 12, 1997
  • Cut Christmas trees safety

• December 8, 1997
  • Gardeners' gifts

• December 1, 1997
  • Concerns with insecticidal soap

• November 24, 1997
  • Growing a pineapple houseplant

• November 17, 1997
  • Scrawny pampas grass
  • Plants good or bad for sick people?

• November 10, 1997
  • Winter watering
  • When to prune trees

• November 3, 1997
  • Using homemade compost
  • When to prune roses

• October 27, 1997
  • Window gardening plants
  • Winter composting

• October 20, 1997
  • Yellow areas on tree leaves
  • Too late to plant bulbs?

• October 13, 1997
  • Squash leaves turned black
  • Frozen tomato safe to eat?

• October 6, 1997
  • Saving tomato plants from the frost

• September 29, 1997
  • Mushrooms everywhere
  • Spreading compost

• September 22, 1997
  • Pests and diseases from outside
  • Blooming amaryllis

• September 15, 1997
  • Fertilizing Mexican elder and nandina
  • Poinsettas and Christmas cacti

• September 8, 1997
  • Bark beetle treatment scam?
  • Fruitless mulberry

• September 1, 1997
  • Help us watch the Japanese beetle

• August 25, 1997
  • Old lombardy poplar sick
  • Watermelon blossom end rot

• August 18, 1997
  • Transplanted trees sick
  • Weeping fig dropping leaves

• August 11, 1997
  • Grasshoppers eating garden

• August 4, 1997
  • Elm leaf beetles, again

• July 28, 1997
  • Apple leaves drying up
  • Wildlife garden

• July 21, 1997
  • Yellow wildflower, sweet clover, alfalfon

• July 14, 1997
  • Brown needles on pine trees

• July 7, 1997
  • Elm leaf beetles invading new home
  • Waterlogged African violet

• June 30, 1997
  • Leaves turning yellow and falling from locust tree

• June 23, 1997
  • Euonymus scale insect problem

• June 16, 1997
  • Cucumbers and melons too close in the garden?

• June 9, 1997
  • Grass turning yellow

• June 2, 1997
  • Leaves and twigs falling from trees
  • Birds eating my cherries

• May 26, 1997
  • Rabbits eating garden

• May 19, 1997
  • Apply compost to established lawn?
  • Herbicide and groundwater contamination?

• May 12, 1997
  • Fertilize newly planted trees?

• May 5, 1997
  • Ash tree leaves frozen

• April 28, 1997
  • Black leaves on pear tree in spring

• April 21, 1997
  • Elm tree drips stinking sap

• April 14, 1997
  • Watering lawns under water-conserving restrictions

• April 7, 1997
  • Bone meal and mad cow disease

• March 31, 1997
  • When to plant grass seeds
  • When to set houseplants outside
  • Protecting seedlings from birds

• March 24, 1997
  • Weed control to reduce curly top virus
  • Moving daffodils
  • What is calcareous soil?

• March 17, 1997
  • Ugly globe willow
  • Fewer bugs

• March 3, 1997
  • When to fertilize trees

• February 23, 1997
  • Skinny tomato plants started indoors

• February 17, 1997
  • Daffodils blooming too early?
  • Fat white worms in lawn.

• February 10, 1997
  • Cut trees because of hay fever?

• February 3, 1997
  • Lawn toadstools
  • Pretty lawn and dead trees

• January 27, 1997
  • Digging a garden now

• January 20, 1997
  • Grass drought tolerance

• January 13, 1997
  • Gardening for wheel chair gardeners

• January 6, 1997
  • Prevent short flower stalks on spring bulbs
  • Fragrant indoor plant