The Trust Project
Your gardening tools have been neglected for too long. With spring around the corner, it's time to get them sharp and ready for use.
Don and John go over some basic tips for maintaining your garden tools and discuss how to make sure your pesticides or fertilizers are ok for use after sitting all winter.
Also, after an unfortunate encounter with his snowblower, Don thinks we might have a vole problem in our region this spring.
Have a question for Don? Send him an email at donald.kinzler@ndsu.edu .
This week, gardening columnist Don Kinzler gives the odds for survival of a flowering crabapple damaged by rabbits, recommends a potentilla type, and discusses the importance of seed-starting mix for new seedlings.
Gardening columnist Don Kinzler writes, "Having a record of our plants’ identities can save their lives, or at least make their lives a lot healthier."
This week, gardening columnist Don Kinzler answers questions about when to cut back geraniums grown from cuttings over the winter, where to prune a burning bush with rabbit damage, and more.
Gardening columnist Don Kinzler says homeowners have three options: do nothing; proactively remove trees; or treat them with insecticide.
This week, gardening columnist Don Kinzler fields questions about saving shrubs damaged by deer, when to trim back geraniums wintering in the basement, and how to kill quackgrass in peonies.
Throughout the garden season, volunteers meet weekly in groups at their specific garden to perform tasks that need to be completed. Members share the work and share the harvest.
This week, gardening columnist Don Kinzler fields questions about brown spots on a houseplant's foliage, how to control mealy bugs, and if an apple tree should be replanted elsewhere.
A primary reason for pruning fruit trees is to let more sunlight and air inside the tree. The sunlight prompts more flowers to form lower on the tree, yielding more fruit within easy reach.
This week, gardening columnist Don Kinzler fields questions about a Christmas cactus that only bloomed on one side, how to repair a snow-damaged cotoneaster, and more.
In this week's column, gardening columnist Don Kinzler talks about selecting the right tomato variety, or cultivar, for this area.
