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Two winter villains are working on our lawns
Published 03/18/2010 at 7:45 p.m.
Many homeowners are experiencing the typical late fall-early winter surprise of large brown areas in what they thought was a perfectly green and healthy stand of turf.
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Collier Extension: Are your ‘mow-’n-go’ landscape maintenance companies legally using pesticides?
Published 03/11/2010 at 9:03 p.m.
If you pay a landscape maintenance service to apply herbicides or insecticides, then that person or that person’s employer, by state law, needs to have a pesticide license and certificate, as well as a local occupational license.
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Collier Extension Service: Copper fungicides may protect palms
Published 02/11/2010 at 10:25 p.m.
Some landscape companies have been pushing “protection” of potentially cold-injured palms with bud sprays or trunk injections of nutrients and fungicides. As far as I know, sprays of copper or fungicides, or injections after the damage has occurred are of ...
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Extension service: Yellowing palm disease moves to new victims
Published 01/21/2010 at 10:28 p.m.
Palm lethal yellowing disease eliminated thousands of coconut palms on the east coast of Florida back in the early 1970s through the early 1980’s. Tourists were dismayed when they arrived at their beach destination to find no coconut palms along ...
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Take care if you find Mexican clover in your grass
Published 12/03/2009 at 9:32 p.m.
Help — my lawn is pink! I have had a larger number of calls this year about the beautiful flowering “weed” that seems to have sprawled over many areas. This plant is largeflower pusley or Richardia grandiflora. Both of those ...
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A trio of landscape problems are showing up in our gardens
Published 11/05/2009 at 8:56 p.m.
We are seeing many types of plants with chewing damage which starts at the edge of the leaf and meanders toward the midrib. So many plants are chewed, that the destruction reminds me of hail damage on some properties. This ...
