Master Gardeners help you with your garden for April.
The numbers on a bag of fertilizer tell you the percentage of nutrients contained in the bag. This is shown in percentage of weight by volume.
Soil supplies 13 essential nutrients to plants. Soil nutrients are classified as primary, secondary or micronutrients. The most common nutrient deficiencies are in the primary nutrients, nitrogen (N), phosphorous (P) and potassium (K).
A successful garden is all about soil. Soil provides the network to deliver air, water and nutrients to your plants. So what is going on in garden soil?
The Master Gardener column takes a winter break beginning in November and will return in March.
Christie Lassen of Wild Birds Unlimited, Gardiner, will present the Nov. 8 program for the Backyard Birding series presented by the Olympic Peninsula Audubon Society.
Here’s the latest column from the Master Gardeners.
Although the harvest of strawberries, raspberries, blackberries and blueberries is over for the year, continued care of your berry patch through the fall and winter will minimize plant loss and ensure a good harvest next year.
Can I eat the fruit on a squash plant that came up voluntarily in my compost pile? It looks different from any squash that I have grown in my garden.
With winter right around the corner, it is time to get serious about cleaning up the garden and putting it to bed before the rains start in earnest.
Would you like to have the hydrangeas that are now blooming in your garden brighten your home during the winter months? You can, by drying those blooms yourself!
Fruitless fruit trees are frustrating and result from a variety of causes. Clues as to why your tree did not bear fruit can be gleaned from observations of its flowering and fruiting.
Getting you ready for fall gardening in the Sequim-Dungeness Valley