Posts by Maxine Mitchell
Putting Your Garden to Bed for the Winter in Edmonds
By Maxine Mitchell. As the days grow shorter and chillier, homeowners need to conduct the age-old practice of “putting the garden to bed” for the winter. “What is that?” you might ask. Well, it’s a lot of things, but essentially, it’s doing a final pruning and clean-up and making sure your plants are protected for…
Read MoreApple Maggot Control in Edmonds
An Organic Approach By Maxine Mitchell I used to have a terrible apple maggot problem with my small Honey Crisp apple tree in my backyard in Edmonds. Every year, I would get apples but they were riddled with the telltale dimpling that indicated apple maggot flies had laid their eggs on the fruit and the…
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