Tag: Ask Burton

Ask Burton: Q: I have a weed – looks like a grass, but when I clean out my bed, it’s always back within the next ten days and it’s always worse than when I first started pulling. What is this, and how do I get rid of it?
Ask Burton: This week, a reminder about bagworms! An ounce of prevention, a pound of cure.
Ask Burton: Q: I built a raised garden this year, filled it with a bulk soil sold to me as “vegetable garden mix”, and planted peppers and squash in it. WHY is nothing growing? My plants are well watered, but still yellow and stunted.
Ask Burton: Q: My mature live oak has hundreds of suckers coming up around it! Why is this happening? What can I do to make them go away?
Ask Burton: Q: My clay has terrible drainage! Should I add sand to the soil to loosen it?
Ask Burton: Q: My magnolia has lots of yellow to yellowish brown leaves scattered all through it! I have leaves all over the ground, so what’s going on?
Ask Burton: Q: Why does my St. Augustine lawn look so weak? It’s much thinner than it should be for the time of year, and basically dead in shadier parts of the yard. Is it diseased?
Ask Burton: Q: I have a St. Augustine lawn and it looked terrible by the end of last year. I had large dead patches across my front yard, and the strip between the sidewalk and the street looked like I’d sprayed it to kill it intentionally. Small parts of my lawn are starting to green up now, but those patches look like they’re not likely to come back. What should I do? And how do I stop it from happening again?
Ask Burton: Q: My Americana agave melted during the winter ice storm – I didn’t have time to cover it before the cold snap. But my hardier agaves and yuccas have black splotches. How do I fix it?
Ask Burton: Q: Can you tell me how to prune roses properly…I have bush roses and climbers.