Plant health care discusses:

Soil management

Insect management

Disease management

Diagnostics as it applies to plant

Abiotic which are non- pathological

Biotic which are pathological

Understanding the disease triangle as it applies to plants

I discuss how to manage Kikuyu grass out of a cool season lawn.

Implement integrated pest management practices for the management of the kikuyu grass

What is a pest issue?

Insect, mite, virus, bacteria, fungi, weed and improper cultural growing conditions

What season of the year is the pest issue the problem?

Spring, summer, fall and winter

Strategies to manage a pest issue:

Monitor

Chemical

Biological

Mechanical

Cultural

Growing a healthy garden is a multi step process, it incorporates:

Soil management practices

Effective Irrigation management

Nutritional program 

Garden time is now on Facebook, simple go Garden Time with Mike Ventura and you are good to go.

How to grow a healthy garden is not just a single step, steps that will benefit the performance of the garden:

Organic soil amends

improve the overall cultural growing conditions in the garden

learn and implement  the cultural growing conditions that the plant requires

applying organic soil amends that are low in salts

Preparing the garden for spring time, this is the second part of the episode.

As a recap, I mentioned:

planter bed irrigation management

soil amends

irrigation management

fruit tree management

turf grass management, how to manage crabgrass

Preparing the garden for the spring time, this includes:

soil mangement

irrigation management, converting where possible spray head to drip irrigation

fruit tree management

turf grass management, specifically how to manage crabgrass in the the lawn

This episode is about the management of Camellia's. In this episode I will be discussing cultural conditions as far a irrigation practices, management of Camellia Petal Blight and the flowering periods of the camellia.

In this episode, I discuss biennial weeds and perennial weeds. 

In this episode, I discuss weed control strategies for commonly found weeds in the garden. Weeds in the garden are classified as:

Annual

Biennial 

Perennial

Annual weeds, 6 month growing season

Biennial weeds, 2 year growing season

Perennial weeds, 3 years and longer

Weeds are classified as:

Grassy and broad leaf