The Bay Gardener by Dr. Francis Gouin

There Will Be Figs

With lots of fruit and few demands,
what’s not to like?

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– by Dr. Frank Gouin – 6/17/10

Clover Is No Miracle Lawn Feeder

It makes no nitrogen to spare

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– by Dr. Frank Gouin – 6/24/10

Let the Sun Shine In

How to prune your bare-bottomed hedges

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– by Dr. Frank Gouin – 7/8/10

Plants Need Clean Air, Too

The spate of Code Orange days have our plants gasping for breath

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– by Dr. Frank Gouin – 7/15/10

The Results Are In

Carol Allen scores with Francis R. Gouin Undergraduate Research Grant

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– by Dr. Frank Gouin – 7/22/10

What’s the Value of Organic?

Depends on how you define it

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– by Dr. Frank Gouin – 7/29/10

Local or Organic?

That’s a choice you have to make in buying cherries, peaches, plums and nectarines

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– by Dr. Frank Gouin – 8/5/10

Not Sour Enough to Kill Weeds

There’s a big difference between household vinegar and horticultural vinegar

A few years ago, I wrote about using horticultural vinegar to kill weeds. At a recent Deale Farmers’ Market, a customer who bought peaches from me insisted that my recommendation to use vinegar does not kill weeds. She even went to the trouble of boiling the vinegar, thinking she would be concentrating it. What she did not realize is that boiling vinegar dilutes the acetic acid, which is why vinegar gives off a strong odor when heated.

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– by Dr. Francis Gouin – 9/16/10

Keep Your Roses Blooming

Bet you didn’t know these tricks

If you examine a rose plant carefully, you will notice that it has compound leaves, meaning that there are either three or five leaflets to each leaf. The three-leaflet leaves appear near the top and bottom of each stem, and the five-leaflet leaves appear in the middle of the stems. In the axel of each leaf is a vegetative bud; however, the buds are more robust and pronounced in the axels of the five-leaflet leaves than in the three-leaflet leaves.

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– by Dr. Francis Gouin – 9/2/10

Bay Gardener’s Cat

From a Norwegian forest to Upakrik Farm

Spooks adopted Upakrik Farm on the evening of All Souls Day in 1996. Our black cocker spaniel Dixie and I both saw a cat in our driveway. I thought it was our cat Pumpkin, a Maine coon cat, but Dixie gave chase and the cat jumped into the shrubbery. When I found Pumpkin in her basket, I concluded we had a visiting cat. Then I heard a yell from my wife.

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– by Dr. Francis Gouin – 8/26/10