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Septoria spots on garden phlox

July 8, 2019 By Jo Ellen Meyers Sharp

A sneaky fungus disease has attacked my stand of garden phlox. The leaves went from clean one day to spotty the next. This is the first time septoria has shown up on the garden ...

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Filed Under: Hoosier Gardener Tagged With: fungus disease, leaf spots, septoria, spots on phlox

Catching up to the season: Tomatoes, peppers planted

July 6, 2019 By Jo Ellen Meyers Sharp

    Gardeners are nothing if not optimistic. Optimism was the driving factor to my spending the last few days of June and first few days of July planting tomatoes and ...

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Filed Under: Hoosier Gardener Tagged With: new pepper, new perennial salvia Rose Marvel, new tomato, trial plants

A fungus among us

June 29, 2019 By Jo Ellen Meyers Sharp

Powdery mildew on monad

         Mother Nature has hit our gardens with a double whammy: Rain and high humidity. Did I ...

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Filed Under: Hoosier Gardener Tagged With: fungus, mulch, powdery mildew, spots on leaves, white spots on leaves

Scouting gardens leads to what’s old is new again

June 22, 2019 By Jo Ellen Meyers Sharp

         I recently spent much of a week scouting residential gardens in the Indianapolis area for a national magazine with its editor and ...

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Replace drowned plants, prune spring shrubs

June 15, 2019 By Jo Ellen Meyers Sharp

         If the pruners have been burning a hole in your garden glove, go ahead and trim up the lilac, forsythia, viburnum and other ...

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Get the garden ready for the big event

June 8, 2019 By Jo Ellen Meyers Sharp

         If June has a season, it’s weddings. No matter when the wedding or other special event is scheduled for your garden, you need to ...

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Plants vs skeeters: Skeeters win!

June 1, 2019 By Jo Ellen Meyers Sharp

plants are not effective mosquito repellents.

Every year, customers come into garden centers looking for plants that will repel mosquitoes. The shoppers want something they can plant in the ground or in pots around their deck, ...

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Honeydew droppings make mess

May 25, 2019 By Jo Ellen Meyers Sharp

Oak scale on oak in Indianapolis

    This was published originally May 25, 2018     Something unpleasant drips like rain from oaks in Indianapolis. It may have the innocuous-sounding name honeydew, but ...

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Ready. Set. Go. Planting Time

May 18, 2019 By Jo Ellen Meyers Sharp

Squash Vine Protection

It’s time. Go ahead and plant your tomatoes, squash and other summer veggies. Since peppers like even warmer soil, plant those in a couple of weeks. And while you’re at it, ...

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Celebrate all our charges on Mother’s Day

May 13, 2019 By Jo Ellen Meyers Sharp

Although my son lives more than 1,000 miles away with his wife, I have everyday Mother’s Day reminders of him in my garden and in my life. Probably my favorite for outdoors is a ...

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