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  1. Help please!

    Last year the city gave me a Thunderchild Flowering Crab for my yard & I seem to have killed it???
    The tree was planted last July, full sun exposure, & did great last year. This year spring we had everything from spring snow to lots of rain, frost, you name it. The tree is now sitting dormant & don't know if it's dead or what. Where the tree sits, doesn't have very good drainage, gets full sun. It looks like the buds were coming & now nothing. Does anyone have suggestions ...
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  2. help with pruning a "rescued" maple

    First timer to this very good site.....
    situation: I transplanted a maple last fall that had just grown wild and unattended near building on neighbor's property...No 1: it survived the transplant, bare roots and all, so I'm happy about that, just dormant enough I guess No 2: approx 4-5 yrs old, about 12 ft tall, but has grown without the standard care needed to shape properly...it has one main trunk, curved from climbing up the side of a building, with 2 other limbs, 3-4 ft long, both coming ...
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  3. Help Me Please

    I have about 40 heirloom tomato plants in the ground have been for about three weeks .. I water every morning at 5 a.m. The plants arent growing half are the same size they were when i planted the others are about 14 inches but havent gotten any taller but all of them have blooms and half of them a big big bloom at the top of the main stem like theyre done growing up..????? I have gardened for years but never heirloom tomatoes .. Is this Normal???? Or am i doing something wrong please Help me!!!!!!!!! ...
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  4. 4-30-2010

    I'm sittin here listening to the sound of thunder in the sky. Since my last entry I have been slowly getting the beds ready to go. This year I pitch fork them, every other year I do, no reason, just that I like to get in and see whats going on in the dirt. I look for worm sign, stuff like that. So I get the good ol pitch fork out and start. I need to put in some peat and sand in some spots. I live in zone 5. We've had some good warm days, and yep this week I woke up to frost,lol. But back ...
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  5. Tulips

    I bought a container of tulips for my deck and now they are finished blooming. I would like to plant them in my yard. Do I need to wait until fall to take them out of the container and plant them or can I plant them now?

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