Question: I found this “thing” under my Joshua tree this morning. It is about 6 inches long. Is it mold? I only water three times a week for five minutes.
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There it was: the highway sign, flashing urgently. High wind on the Hoover Dam Bypass bridge. Use caution. Ordinarily no big deal, but today we were headed to Boulder City to play a round of golf at Boulder City Golf Course.
Question: What do you say is our planting zone? I got a Plant Smart Sensor for Christmas, and it says we are a 7B, which is way lower than I’ve read. Just because a website says a tree or plant will be OK for a certain zone doesn’t mean it is necessarily, right?
Question: Before I plant my apricot tree this spring, I would like to know how much space I should allocate for it. Does a Blenheim apricot lend itself to close pruning?
If you can hit the trail early on these days of late spring, you can still sneak into a few lower-elevation destinations before temperatures soar into the misery range. A good point for such a dawn attack might be Keyhole Canyon in the western foot of the Eldorado Mountains about 20 miles south of Boulder City.
Bean plants could suffer collar rot when springtime weather is cool and causes soil to retain moisture.