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Gardening with Job's Nursery
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Greetings!
September is here! Fall will be on its way soon with the changing colors and crisp air. It is a good time to work in the yard, and finish those planting projects. We have opened the Tree Field for reserving trees for planting in the dormant season. Below I have the Tree Field Catalogs available for download, this is great way to start with a bigger tree to get shade sooner rather than later. Don't forget the U-pick Pumpkin Patch opens October 1st for all that great fall fun of picking pumpkins!
Job's 2012-13 Shade and Flowering Tree Catalog
Job's 2012-13 Evergreen Tree Catalog
We also have 2 garden classes this month located at the nursery. Cost is $10 per person and we have plenty of chairs
September 15-Landscape Design: How Not to Over Plant 10 am
September 22-Landscape Design: Low Water Use Plants Found in the Garden Center 10 am
Finally we are selling tickets for the Mid Columbia Koi and Pond Club's 2012 Pond Tour on Septmber 8th. Cost is $5 dollars per person. This is a great way to learn and get ideas about backyard water gardens.
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Disease or Scorch on My Dogwood?
 Garden diseases have been on the rise in the last couple of years in the Tri-Cities. One of those is Anthracnose, a fungal disease that loves wet, cool weather conditions to appear and multiply; like we had this past June. Anthracnose spreads by wind or splashing water. It is also encouraged by watering with sprinklers late in the day or night.
Anthracnose fungi can be found to infect the following trees and shrubs: Dogwoods, Maples, Sycamores (excludes Bloodgood), Rose of Sharon, Hydrangea, Zelkova, Catalpa, Elms, Birch, Oaks and Peaches. We have even found it affect Raspberries and fruit set too. Dogwoods are the more common tree to have damage brought into the nursery. The damage resembles scorch from drought stress however it has circular spots or a  layered pattern that gives the "burn" a swirl. It works it way from the bottom of the tree to the top where a scorch is generally on only the leaves where the wind hit it or the entire tree all at once. Pictured first is a Dogwood afflicted with Anthracnose and the bottom picture is of a Dogwood that has been drought stressed. Further damage is dropping of foliage and weakened stems that die back.
To prevent this disease it is best not water late afternoon or evening. Let your dogwoods go dry into the night. If you find your plant already afflicted with this disease, it would be a good idea to spray with a fungicide with anthracnose on it's label as soon as it diagnosed as anthracnose to prevent it spread to new growth. Then spray the tree again in the dormant season to help clean up any remaining spores.
Here are a few products to help clean up this disease.
Bayer Disease Control for Roses, Flowers, and Shrubs
Bayer 3 in 1 Isect, Disease, and Mite Control
Bonide Liquid Copper Fungicide (Organic)
Bonide Infuse
Bonide FUNG-ONIL
fertilome Liquid Systemic Fungicide II
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Tips Toward Happy Trees
 With the field opening this September here are a few tips toward happy trees.
Don't Plant too Deep
Trees suffer, stunt or fail if planted too deep. When planting your trees, make sure the root flare (where the roots meet the trunk) is within an inch from grade.
Water Thoroughly
Trees grow best when properly hydrated, you want to deep soak them weekly or have the soil moist to 12 inches below the yard surface. This can be done by running the lawn sprinklers longer and less frequently or with a sprinkler on a hose to water under the trees' canopy.
Fertilize Trees
For great tree growth, your trees needs to be well fed. Healthy trees perform well and are not as susceptible to disease, insects, or wind. Here are a few products to feed your trees. Remember to apply as stated on product label * notes organic
Mircle Gro Tree and Shrub Spike
Lily Miller Rhody Food
Dr. Earth Fruit Tree Fertilizer
Placing Trees for Success
To keep your tree roots from causing problems with driveways, foundations, drain fields and swimming pools; you want to place your tree half its mature spread (diameter) away from your structures.
Staking Trees
To keep a tree straight while it gets established, stake the tree for the first year only. Newly planted trees shorter than 6 feet generally don't need to be staked, but a newly planted tree taller than 6 feet generally does in our local winds.
Tree Ideas
Here is a list of trees that do well in the Mid Columbia! Some are direct varieties, while others are listed as a species; with many varieties belonging to that species to choose from that grow well. * notes trees that need wind protection.
Trees for near streets, structures or curbs
Bald Cypress
Elms
European Hornbeam
Flowering Pears
Hedge Maple
Gingkos
Lindens
Oaks
Redbud
Zelkova
Trees that make great shade
Bald Cypress
Elms
Honeylocusts
Lindens
Maples
Oaks
River Birches
Zelkovas
Sweetgums
Tree that have great flowers
Dogwoods*
Flowering Cherries
Flowering Pears
Flowering Plums
Golden Chain Tree
Horsechestnut
Japanese Lilac
Japanese Snowbell*
Lindens
Maakias
Serviceberries
Trees that are evergreen
Austrian Pine and dwarf hybrids
Alaskan Cedars
Atlas Cedar
Blue Spruces
Bosnian Pine
Concolor Fir
Norwary Spruce
Tolleson's Juniper
Vanderwolf Pine
Western Red Cedar
Trees with great fall color
Aspen
Dogwoods*
Flowering Pears
Freemanii Maples
Golden Niobe Willow
Lindens
Norway Maples
Oaks
Red Maples
River Birches
Tree that are neat and different
Bald Cypress
Corkscrew Willow
Dawn Redwood
Evergreen Magnolia*
Gingko
Goldenrain Tree
Merrill Magnolia*
Paperbark Maple
Shangtung Maple
Umbrella Pine
Weeping Norway Spruce
Weeping Atlas Cedar
Trees for tiny spaces
Centerglow Ninebark
Forsythias
Hydrangea Trees
Japanese Maples*
Lilacs
Snowball Viburnum
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Well that's all for now, remember to Like Us on Facebook or Follow us on Twitter to see tips, pictures of plants and cool ideas as I find and share them!
May your gardens flourish!
Alex Job
Job's Nursery |
September Hours Monday-Saturday 9 to 5, Sundays 11 to 4
4072 Columbia River Road
Pasco, Washington 99301
509-547-4843
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