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Desert Horticulture — 86 episodes

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1

Soil Sampling and Testing of Desert Soils

2

Internet Research on Desert Horticulture. Good, Bad, or ?

3

Amending the Soil - What Does it Mean?

4

Iron Treatment Differs Depending on Time of Year

5

Fire Blight Disease in Your Fruit Trees

6

Managing Fruit Trees by Summer Pruning

7

Buying and Growing Citrus in the Eastern Mojave Desert

8

Wind Damage to Vegetables, Fruit Trees and Ornamentals

9

Pruning Classes 2021-2 Winter and Spring

10

Queen Palm for the Desert?

11

Straighten 20 YR Old Leaning Saguaro?

12

Spacing of Plants Depends on its Mature Height

13

Grubs and What to Do About Them

14

Plants Don't Use Water. People Do.

15

Watering Joshua Trees

16

When to Fertilize Newly Planted Podocarpus 'Maki'

17

Tree Damaged at Planting. What to do?

18

Which Citrus is Right for Me?

19

Late Freeze Effects for 12 Months of the Year

20

Are Food Forests Right for the Desert?

21

Growing Roses in the Desert

22

When to Prune Flowering Trees and Shrubs

23

Confused About Pomegranates?

24

How Much Water Should I Give My Landscape Plants?

25

Are You Selecting the Right Grass for Your Lawn?

26

Ash Trees for Desert Landscapes?

27

Growing Herbs, Greens and MIcrogreens in the Desert

28

What To Do in the Fall

29

Desert Lawn Establishment and Maintenance

30

Artificial Grass Pluses and Minuses

31

What is Mulch and Why Use It?

32

Planting Fall Vegetables in the Desert

33

Planting Landscapes in the Heat

34

Summer Heat and Plants

35

Mineral Fertilizers

36

Growing Roses in the Desert

37

What HOA's Need to Know About Minimizing Costs and Maintaining Attractive Landscapes

38

Fruit Removal: a Management Process Called Thinning

39

Bottle Trees, Spider Mites and Plant Yellowing in the Desert

40

What To Do After a Rain

41

Prevent Early Peach Flowering, Identify Landscape Plants and Miniature Peach Trees

42

Desert Landscape Design vs Xeriscape

43

Growing Jujube in the Desert: An Interview with Rafael Evangelista

44

Irrigation and Desert Plant Water Use, Part 2.

45

Irrigation and Desert Plant Water Use Part 1

46

Verticillium Wilt in Desert Willow, Improving Soil Mixes, and Managing Palo Verde versus Crepe Myrtle

47

Bartlett Pears, Winter Planting a Pomegranate, and Controlling White Flies

48

Why Wait until January to Prune Fruit Trees?

49

Talk to Your Plants

50

How to Grow Excellent Vegetables Successfully

51

Italian Cypress Browning and What To Do About It

52

Whats Wrong with my Roses?

53

Protect Your Plants from Fall Freezes Now!

54

Fix Your Landscape

55

Maintaining a Lawn in the Desert

56

Starting a Lawn in the Desert

57

Producing Tomatoes in the Fall

58

Why Fertilizers Aren't Working

59

Grasshopper Invasion, Cicada Killer Wasps are Short-lived, Whats Better than a Fruit Salad Tree?

60

Controlling Aphids in Landscape Trees, Using Drip Tubing to Irrigate Trees, Managing Shrubs that Don't Belong Here

61

How to Water Plants in the Desert

62

Growing Tomatoes in the Desert

63

Leaffooted Plant Bug, Weed Control, Horsetail Control, Twisted Myrtles and Ants in Figs

64

Importance of rotating your vegetables, leaf drop on apricot and bacterial leaf spot of tomato

65

Asparagus Failing, Dwarf Southern Magnolia Leaf Drop and Apricot Leaf Drop

66

Converting to a Mojave Desert Landscape, Planting Plants in Containers, Cactus Pad Propagation and Soil

67

Pines as landscape trees, water droplets on grapes, transplanting cholla and wildflowers, protecting cactus from the sun, pollenizer for jujube.

68

Grape Leaf Skeletonizer, Birds, Yellow Bottlebrush and Importance of Shade

69

How to Perform a Jar Test of Your Landscape Soil

70

Yellow plants, transplanting sago palm and transplanting rosemary into containers

71

Yellow leaves and fertilizers, saquaro black spot, pruning bougainvillea and fruit tree selection

72

Selecting the Best Almond Tree

73

Selecting the Best Apples and Pears

74

Selecting the Best Apricot and Plum

75

Pick the Best Nectarine and Peach Tree

76

Planting Tomato in Cool Soil, Use Pheromone Traps, Making Raisins, Planting Ornamental Plum and Poor Grape Production

77

Which Grapes to Plant, Why Western Redbud, Control Bermudagrass, Cover 'dem Plants

78

Make Soil Warmer for Planting, Snow on Flowering Apricot, Lousy Fruit Production, Fuji Apple Not Flowering, Planting Mimosa in the Same Hole

79

Pruning Grapes in the Desert

80

Dormant oil, repairing damage to limbs, sunscald to trees

81

Spring Freeze Damage and Plants

82

Pruning Fruit Trees

83

Fertilizers, compost and iron

84

Bosc pear, winter irrigations, water softener and yellow bottlebrush

85

Fertilizer injectors, container dirt, potting soil and Santa Rosa plum

86

Citrus, Landscape Fabric and Getting Rid of a Lawn