Great Garden Questions Answered – Cold Damage, Winter Gardening – In this video I answer gardening questions from last week’s garden and landscape q and a.
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Happy New Year! Looking forward to another year of planting flowers, shrubs and vegetables.
Thank you and happy new year!
I didn’t realize that some ornamental species were being sterilized, as a re-introduction. Interesting. I have both burning bush and nandina on my property, and neither has proven invasive, as you mentioned.
I believe there's some scientific studies that show lights on the plants all night disrupt their growth and health. I use solar lights for this reason, as they will turn off by themselves after a few hours.
Holly 🤦♀️. She has an opinion!
Happy New year Mr. Putnam. Thanks for the work you do 👍
I agree with you about the night, we have a small farm property in the country and the star gazing is amazing. Happy New Year 🥳 🎉
To comment on the new construction question about adding worms to the soil…… 28:47 ….I have a new construction house. Rotten soil condition. We had our backyard landscaped and the landscaper added landscape fabric and 3-4 inches of hardwood mulch over the top. I quickly became unhappy with the landscape fabric and went out (in winter!) and removed the fabric. When I did, there were LOADS of worms —in the hardwood much! I had not added them, they just came. Mulch is the answer! Mulch is always the answer 😂
Jim's in shorts so we know it's probably above 15 degrees. Most of the things in my 7b yard are brown & crunchy. Some are almost black, even the 30 year old photinia. Killer weather. It's hard to wait to see if anything recovers.
Happy New Year! I look forward to continuing education in 2023 via your channel. Older cultivars of butterfly bush are definitely invasive here in the Hudson Valley New York 6b. I had some growing in cracks in my bolder retaining walls–these are tough plants. I have pulled them out of the garden beds and elsewhere and am still finding seedlings popping up. I didn't want to deprive the butterflies who cover this plant when it is in bloom so I plant the sterile cultivars. It sometimes takes some research to identify which are sterile and I wish there were more of them in the nurseries.
Clever, helpful Holly is field testing Hypericum 'Brigadoon' salt tolerance today.
Great Q&A today and Happy New Year! Interesting on Wilt Stop. I have only used it on my winter evergreen porch pots and never paid attention that you could use it in other ways. Not that I will, but love learning.
Clayton, NC. I have a grafted 3 gal Fantastic Avocado tree(planted in-ground last spring) that I put a yard waste container over during the cold snap for two days. Since I took it off the leaves have been brown and dry even though the soil is still moist. The branches and trunk are still green though. Should I be worried about it?
QUESTION: can I use uncomposted chicken manure on my garden beds if I use it sparingly? Just a very light application on the surface of the soil. I have a barn full of chicken manure that I could use but haven’t aged it at all because at my age it’s going to be a real chore just moving it out of the chicken barn and I really don’t want to have to move it twice. I also have a barn full of uncomosted sheep manure but that has more straw in it than the chicken manure making it heavier in my opinion. I’m 68 years old which isn’t truly that old but I have chronic back and knee problems and love to garden but can only do so much. I know uncomposted manure can burn plants but I’m just hoping that if I use it sparingly it won’t do any damage. ❄️💚🙃
I have a 28 y.o. Dwarf Alberta spruce. One spot on lower part of trunk around one branch looks like it’s bleeding quite a bit. Has done so for several years. Soil in area gets a white powdery like substance. Its usually an inch or so deep. I’ve raked it out a few times over the years. Weird huh? What could be her problem? Thank you for teaching and being so kind!
As a big notebook fan, I’d love to know what kind of notebook you use to jot these questions down! And how you organize your gardening notes in general.
Who has significant brown/burn on well watered, mulched plants in ground 2+ yrs? Here in 7B north of Raleigh damage is: 5 of 6 ligustrum, 5 of 6 distyllium, 2 of 3 tea olives. Ironically, the 7' tall Camellia Japonicas are still green and budded. Even the newer Sasanquas are green. Go figure!
Thank you for telling us about earthworms in the NE. I did not know that. It gives me a better understanding of the ecosystem.
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Landscape fabric @!#&#!!! The property I bought had several layers of landscape fabric (and layers of decayed mulch) in most of the beds. It would have been very expensive but I wish I had just gotten a team in to remove it all at the beginning. I was too eager to plant the vast areas of barren mulch. At first I cut holes and removed the layers of fabric where I was planting something new. Not the best approach. Now I tend to pull out larger sections. It gets easier as there are more holes throughout the system — now when I pull on the fabric it sometimes brings along strips from adjacent areas. Unfortunately the fabric has been there long enough that large roots have grown into it. Sometimes you just have to cut around them. I use a box cutter and industrial quality scissors to cut the fabric. The deepest layer of fabric has degraded a bit which causes it to stick to the clay beneath and stretch rather than pull away. Sometimes I just tear a bunch of holes in the bottom layer hoping that the soil organisms and roots will work their way down. I have had a landscape crew in to take out some bigger patches. Strong young people are much more efficient at removal than I am. I have to laugh (grimly) when I see Jim pop a plant into the ground with ease. For me, planting is often a major excavating job. If there is anyway you can get rid of the fabric wholesale, do it! I hope this is helpful for those of you dealing with this issue.
Thanks Jim.❄️💚🙃
Happy New Year! Excited for the course, just signed up. Looking forward to a great gardening season in '23!
Q: is NOW a good time to buy Chamaecyparis Nana Gracilis (was green before the cold snap, now yellow-ish but not brown) and Cryptomeria Globosa Nana (also yellow-ish)? Zone 7a, the plans are in gropings (ie protected) at my local nursery outside.
Thanks!
I’ve read that the night lights messed up reproduction of a lot of insects.
Happy New Year
How do you protect seedlings and small transplants from squirrels?
Jim's inbox about to blow up! Everything in my N. Georgia landscape looks terrible & for the first time ever, the deer are coming right up to the house & pulling the pansies & violas right out of the soil.
Rabbits have eaten my azaleas, the bottom branches of my Holly bushes, my new mahonias (the wispy ones), and the tops off all my pansies, my irises (I have double blooming irises that bloom even in the winter), my lilacs, etc…They are worse every year! What can we do? I am putting fences around everything. Tried all the sprays, even trapping but to no avail. (Thinking of getting a cat) Have added chickens to our garden for the eggs and fertilizer, may attract more predators. What else can we do? We live in Morrisville NC (Raleigh).
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I have seen things written about oak leaves not being good for mulch or pine needles because they change the ph too much. Is this a myth and are there things you really don’t want to mulch with?
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Happy New year Jim I have a question I live in Southwest Pennsylvania zone 6 When's the best time to prune a butterfly Bush someone told me in March And I can cut it back pretty hard What's your thoughts Thanks
I have a redbud that needs pruning and don’t want to wait until after bloom to do the pruning. I live in the Pacific Northwest in zone 8. Could some of. The branches be brought inside to force bloom, and when would be the best time to do it?
Thank you for all your help and encouragement
Loved the answer about earthworms and glaciation. Fun information!
Looking forward to the future episode on JCR with Mark. Would be interesting to know if there was any additional winter protection to the lath house.
Thank You Jim for bringing up the night lighting issue. We know for a fact night lighting disturbs nesting and migratory cycles of birds & insects like the Monarch butterfly. Let them nest and travel in peace!
Happy New Year, Jim!! Let's hope we all have a wonderful gardening year!! Thankful for all your gardening advice and for sharing your knowledge!!
Wishing you a Happy, Healthy and Prosperous New Year!
Q – I am very curious as to why you are not a fan of Crape Myrtles. Is it a personal preference or is there a trade secret we do not know about?
Are variegated plants more susceptible to frost damage? Here in 7a (reached around 5 degrees at the worst of the storm), the plants that faired the worst were all variegated (sunshine ligustrum, golden oakland holly, and radiance abelia). Any insight on that?
Will medium sized red rock landscape stones integrated into your shrub/flower beds cause damage or burn your plants and shrubs? Happy New Year!
Love all the helpful information! Happy New Year to you and yours!
Happy New Year to you all! Well, perhaps we have made headway into decreasing our drought pattern. 14” of rain in 30 hours with another atmospheric river coming our way here in SF Bay Area. Sun today with cool temps but still just sweatshirt weather.
Question, does artificial fertilisers affect earthworms ?
Happy new year Jim. Your channel is invaluable.
Happy New Year! Thanks for answering my question. Our Live Oaks and Water Oaks provide welcomed shade during our Deep South Summer. But their surface roots running everywhere and the tree limbs on my house are a constant pain.
Thank you and Happy New Year!
Happy New Year, Jim, Steph, and everyone out there. I've got to have hand surgery (dom hand) and idk what date/month would be best. I heard it could be a 3-4 month recovery, and even a year for getting back to "normal" use as a gardener. 7b, W. TN.