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Gardening and lawncare sub for Nashville, Tennessee and the surrounding area. Ask questions and share your experiences with local plants and tactics for dealing with changing weather.

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ISO FIG LEAVES

In search of 20 fig leaves by end of day! Please help will compensate handsomely

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2024/10/28
19:55 UTC

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New to town, when are my typical spring and fall pre emergent application dates?

I inherited a rather weedy yard that I will be trying to tame over the next season or two.

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2024/10/05
13:16 UTC

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Which Lawn Treatment Service?

We haven’t had a lawn treatment service in awhile, once had Arbornomics/Top Turf but we were underwhelmed by them and annoyed by their billing practices. At this point, our lawn is weedy and patchy and I am looking for an alternative. I got some flyers for Lawn Pride and Lawnwise, and am also looking at Pure Green. Online research/reviews are leaving me unsure of where to turn. Anyone have a service they use and really like, any experience with the ones I listed?

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2024/04/12
21:43 UTC

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Master Gardener Events October

Sorry I've been AWOL for the last two months! Here's what the MG of DC are doing in October!

Oct 7th-31st - Annual Hermitage plant sale Location Andrew Jackson's Hermitage: 4580 Rachels Ln, Nashville, TN 37076-1331

The annual Hermitage Fall Plant Sale will run Thursdays-Mondays from October 7th-31st. Take a piece of history with you as these plants come from the Hermitage’s own gardens.

Weather permitting and while supplies last.

A tentative list of plants to be sold at the sale includes Red Giant Mustard, Lacinato Dinosaur Kale, Alabama Blue Collards, Green Glaze Collards, Prismatic Rainbow Chard, Seven Top Turnip Greens, Peony, Daylily, Lily of the Valley, Iris, Pheasant Eye Daffodil, Gypsy Queen Hyacinth, Delft Blue Hyacinth and Pothos.

Oct 7th at 10am - Ask a Master Gardener at both THe Warner Park Nature Center and the Shelby Bottoms Nature Center.

Oct. 7th at 2 pm - Join MGofDC's Speakers Bureau and the Hermitage Branch Library to learn about Hydroponic Growing. Learn how to grow plants in growing systems that use a soilless solution like water that can produce faster growth, larger yield, and other benefits.

October 14, 2023 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Bellevue Branch Library - 720 Baugh Road Nashville, TN 37221

Join MGofDC's Speakers Bureau and the Bellevue Branch Library to learn about Hydroponic Growing

Also don't forget to water this month! It's Nashville's driest month of the year!

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2023/10/03
15:13 UTC

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Is Sunday our first frost date?

I'm looking at the weather forecast and Sunday night is supposed to be 40 degrees Fahrenheit. Some sources say frost really 32 degrees. Also is frost date calculated by day temperatures or night temperatures? I need to bring in my tomatoes when it gets too cold. Thanks in advance.

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2023/10/02
15:50 UTC

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Best place for quality topsoil?

Looking to top dress my lawn before over seeding next week. Where is the best place to get high quality topsoil, not the bagged stuff you get at Home Depot/Lowes? Looking to have a few scoops dropped in the truck bed and transport myself.

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2023/09/20
18:11 UTC

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Library has seeds

I went to the library recently. They have seeds in for fall planting and next year. I got a bunch of winter hardy brassicas, chard, spinach, winter peas, radishes, cilantro, lettuce, and bunching onions. For the spring they had marigolds and other stuff.

If you're looking they should have new stock in.

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2023/09/20
12:13 UTC

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Master Gardener Events in July

Here's what the MG of DC has going on this month!

July 8th - Diagnosing Tomato Disorders @ Bellvue Branch Library 1-2pm

- Middle TN Annual Iris sale @ Crievewood United Methodist at 8am

July 15th - Farm Fun Day @ the Ag Museum in Ellington Ag Center 9am (lots of fun for kids and adults!)

- Fall Veg Gardening @ Hermitage Branch Library 1-2pm (get fall seeds!)

July 16th - Fall Veg gardening @ Bell Garden (655A Colice Jeanne Rd) 2-3pm

July 29th - Fall veg gardening @ Thompson Lane Branch Library 2-3pm

Farm Fun Day is a great time! I volunteered last year and it was hot as Satan's neighbor but we all had a great time. Highly recommend!

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2023/07/05
21:38 UTC

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Any watering advice for the upcoming heat wave?

TL;DR: For clay soil in a heat wave, should I increase watering from once a week to daily or twice a day? Would like to water more without drowning out the roots.

I'm growing 4 tomatoes and knockout roses in a south facing garden with clay soil. The weather report has a heat advisory with temps reaching 100 degrees. My usual routine is to deeply water at the roots once a week with a garden hose in the morning. Should I increase watering to more days a week or twice a day?

I also have young 3 day old arugula sprouts, 2 day old wheat grass sprouts, and other directly sown germinating seeds from the library seed exchange. I lightly water those about 3 times a day with a watering can. Watering three times a day is because in the hot afternoon the soil gets dry and crusty. Otherwise it would have been twice. Those are in a north west facing garden.

My cactus and rosemary seem happy to be ignored and are thriving.

Any advice on upping watering frequency this week is appreciated.

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2023/06/27
12:10 UTC

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Moles and voles.

TL;DR: looking for vole deterrent advice to grow tubers and brassicas.

Tomato gardening is fun. I'd love to companion plant tomatoes with more than basil and peppers but it can get hard. My yard is filled with both voles and moles. The voles don't bother my tomatoes but gladly eat any tubers. One has to purposefully plant any tubers all the way in the backyard for this reason. Tomato plants are in a separate garden on the side of my house.

While effective, I can't use poison coz of my neighbor's dog, my other neighbor's toddler, and the birds. I can't plant castor beans for the same reason. One of the neighborhood cats wandered into my yard, somehow found a vole, killed it, didn't eat it, and put it on my back porch. Kitty litter is not an option as I don't have a cat. There's bobcat urine for sale but don't know if it's effective.

I have recently found out about planting alliums to keep the voles away. I've started on companion planting chives and green onion (kitchen cuttings) with my tomatoes. I have a backyard so large people envy it (and I hate to mow it). I would love to plant something back there. Other than alliums if anyone has advice I'd appreciate it.

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2023/06/10
02:06 UTC

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Winter freeze affect on plants, trees?

How did you all make out after the deep freeze we got over the winter? I lost three small decorative trees/hedges and gave up on them last month. Pulled them out and replaced with an arborvitae in the full sun area, an Eddie Yew in the shaded area and a couple skip laurels to screen my AC units outside. Also had to cut back my shrubs that did survive pretty much all the way back to the ground. Signs of life exist and we’re bouncing back but I don’t expect them to be filled in completely before next summer.

How did you all make out?

Side note — I’m an Ego tool user given I only have about a quarter acre. I got the new 18” electric chainsaw to pull out the trees and roots. It worked surprisingly well though it does lack a bit of peak power I’m used to from gas powered units. I highly recommend the full Ego line for small to medium size lots. I have the mower, trimmer, blower, hedge trimmer and now the chainsaw.

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2023/06/08
13:08 UTC

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Upcoming Master Gardner Events

Master Gardner's are a great resource for research based gardening advice. They are a volunteer arm of the UT Agricultural extension office and have a lot of folks with decades of experience gardening in Middle TN.

Here's what they have going on in the next week:

06/10 - Ask a Master Gardner at Warner Park

06/10 Beneficial Insects for the Landscape and Garden

06/13 Fruits of the Backyard - Field Day in Spring Hill

If there is interest I would be happy to keep updating on events from the MG of DC!

There is also an amazing demonstration garden behind the UT Extension offices at Ellington Ag center. Tuesday and Saturday mornings Master Gardeners are there working and would be happy to answer any questions you have! Plus it's always worth a look around at what grows well and where.

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2023/06/07
17:26 UTC

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Tips for managing sporadic rainfall to maintain a green and healthy lawn

Hey Nashville! I failed miserably last year in keeping up with watering on my lawn. Things were looking great in from late-March to mid-May but then we hit the 6 week drought, followed by 2-3 weeks of extreme heat. By late-June, the lawn was a wasteland. I was not proactive with watering or keeping up with my fertilizing schedule.

This year, I am being much more proactive. I have applied Milorgranite twice (Easter and Memorial Day, followed by 4th of July and Labor Day later this summer) and am watering every 2-3 days during this dry spell. Things are looking better so far, but I don't want to get ahead of myself. I will update again later this month.

What are you doing to keep things green this summer?

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2023/06/07
17:03 UTC

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