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Reader
Questions:
 Q: This insidious vine came in on pine straw. It
smells like a skunk or dirty gym shoes. Gay A.
 Q: Three out of nineteen of these
junipers are dead and several others are turning brown. I water them 5
minutes each. Kristy R.
 Q: I found a lot of these brown things among the
dead grass in my new sod. What is it? Darryl C.
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Garden Knowledge:
Odd tomatoes
 Hometown newspapers once featured large or oddly shaped
vegetables every summer. Maybe a squash shaped like a duck or a tomato
that resembled Richard Nixon. Do you have vegetables that veer into
weird shapes? Check out this "adult
content" video of a male tomato. Email your
pictures to me and I'll feature them in an upcoming newsletter.
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Garden
Calendar
Walter's To Do List for August
Water figs, prune hibiscus, fertilize crape myrtle,
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Ask
an Arborist
How to Kill Empress Trees?
 A Reader Asks: "We had an empress tree in our yard which we
had cut down and the stump ground down in April. I am now fighting
"babies" coming up in the ground stump area. I've spent the summer
spraying these sprouts with the brush and woody plant Round-up. Is
there anything else I can do?"
Get the answer here 
by
Theresa Schrum
Sponsored by: Bartlett
Tree Experts
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Cool
Plant
Chocolate Snakeroot
(Eupatorium rugosum
'Chocolate')
 Perennial native to the eastern half of the U.S.
Chocolate snakeroot is an unusual cultivar of a common native plant
that has dark chocolate stems, dark leaves and is topped with clusters
of tiny white flowers in the late summer and early fall. It's a
butterfly favorite.
Learn more...
by Theresa Schrum
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