The Down the Garden Path podcast is five years old this month! In this special “Ask Us Anything” episode, Joanne and Matthew celebrated by inviting listeners to write or call in with their gardening, landscape design or podcast-related questions.
Some of the topics they covered include:
- whether it’s safe to plant trees in the fall or should it wait until they are dormant and plant in the winter.
- solutions for a listener who didn’t want to take the pump of their pond. Can a heater be used to prevent the pond from freezing?
- if it’s still okay to apply fall fertilizer on our lawns.
- the best ways to protect roses for the winter.
Thanks to everyone who called or wrote in with questions and well-wishes. In the spirit of celebration, each listener who reached out was entered to win a prize and five prizes were awarded.
Each week on the Down the Garden Path podcast, professional landscape designers Joanne Shaw and Matthew Dressing share tips and to-dos for your garden, answer listener questions and share with you what’s happening in the garden centre and in their own gardens.
Tune in to www.realitradio101.com each Monday at 7pm to listen to them live.
Merna Vella
Hi Joanne and Matt,
(from Bowmanville, ON)
I continue to love your DTGP Podcast.
‘The new format of a different theme for each month is brilliant; so fit this question in as you please.
I have tiny black “flying somethings” in some of my houseplants. They arrived in a new purchase that I had not segregated. The little yellow “Stickie Stks” catch some but not all. The larvea eat the roots which eventually kills most plants.
Can you help me….please? It is a HUGE problem because they are so mobile.
I NOW isolate all new plants in a sealed plastic bag for 2 weeks with a yellow Sticky Stim to both segregate and discover any pests.
Stay safe
Warmest regards,
Merna
Bowmanville, ON
Joanne Shaw
Hi Merna,
I will read this on air tonight but I thought I would answer here as well. I use the Yellow sticky traps as well. They do work but it is slower because you catch the adult insects but if they have already laid eggs then you need to wait for those eggs to hatch ( usually quickly) and then you catch the next generation. There is no longer a ” systemic ” chemical that you can put into the soil to kill the insects. Letting the plants dry out also helps as I think the eggs love moist soil. I get the bugs every year and just put one sticky trap in each area I have plants.