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Why is one side of my Japanese maple, or just one large branch completely dead?

Updated : January 12, 2020

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Verticillium Wilt on a lace leaf weeping Japanese maple.

The damage you see in the above photo is called Vertcillium Wilt. Verticillium wilt attacks all kinds of plants, usually with devastating results. I’ve had it attack at least three if not four of my pretty mature Japanese maples. Verticillium Wilt is a soil borne, fungal type of disease that affects the plants ability to… Click here to read more…

An Easy Way to Build the Perfect Trailer for Moving Plants.

Updated : January 12, 2020

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No matter what kind of work you are doing in your yard or in your backyard nursery it’s always nice to have an easy way to move things around. Our biggest challenge at Mike’s Plant Farm is being about to safely move our freshly potted plants from the potting area to the area in the… Click here to read more…

A Simple Way to Build an Underground Root Cellar.

Updated : January 9, 2020

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Why would you need an underground root cellar? An underground root cellar can provide you a place to store plants, or plant bulbs, anything that you want to protect from freezing. I build mine to store rare Japanese maples that I’d get shipped in during the winter months but couldn’t plant out until spring. One… Click here to read more…

The Perfect Evergreen for a Heavily Shaded Area.

Updated : December 10, 2019

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Ilex Green Lustre Japanese Holly.

The current images on this page are not great because I took them of plants growing wild in a very heavily wooded area on my property. But I will explain why I decided to use them. Years ago when I first started landscaping houses in 1979 one of my favorite go to plants, an evergreen… Click here to read more…

Silver Dollar Hydrangea

Updated : November 30, 2019

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Silver Dollar Hydrangea.

Silver Dollar Hydrangea is an awesome hydrangea, smaller in size, yet a prolific bloomer. This plant is a sport of the P.G. Hydrangea which has been a staple in landscapes for more years than you can remember. Today several different types of hydrangeas are used to create into tree hydrangeas but I believe P.G. was… Click here to read more…

How to Get Rid of Yucca.

Updated : March 3, 2019

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I get this question a lot . . . “Mike, how in the world do you get rid of Yucca?” Yucca have roots that go really deep into the ground so when you dig them out it’s unlikely that you are going to get all of the roots and new plants will sprout up from… Click here to read more…

Which Fertilizer Is Best?

Updated : October 3, 2018

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Which fertilizer is best?

I was sitting out on the front porch admiring the Impatiens that Pam and I planted. What a blast of color! Then I thought about what I feed them. Before I get into that, let’s do a fertilizer crash course. On a bag of fertilizer you will see three numbers like 12-12-12 or 18-6-4 or… Click here to read more…

Reviewing the Mantis 58 volt Tiller/Cultivator.

Updated : March 30, 2021

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Reviewing the Mantis 58 volt Tiller/Cultivator.

A Tiller/Cultivator this is cordless? Yep!  Mantis has done it again. I need to tell you this.  I own and have owned for many years a Mantis 2-cycle Tiller/Cultivator and I love it.  I use it for all kinds of things. But . . . it’s 2-cycle.  That’s fine by me because I keep 2-cycle… Click here to read more…

Reviewing the Mantis Electric Tiller/Cultivator.

Updated : July 19, 2019

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The Mantis Electric Tiller/Cultivator.

Many of you know that I have “A History with Mantis Tillers”.  First falling in love with the 2 cycle model which I’ve been using and bragging about for years. But recently Mantis has come out with two new models, an Electric Tiller/Cultivator and a Cordless Tiller/Cultivator. Let’s take a look at the electric model…. Click here to read more…

A Weed Free Vegetable Garden!

Updated : June 14, 2019

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My neighbor Richard is awesome and he let me use his garden for this presentation.  Last fall I helped Richard pack his garden with donkey manure and other compost from my compost pile. We put at least two or three ton of manure and compost into his garden.  Then I tilled it in with the… Click here to read more…

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Flower bulb care after they bloom.

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Me and the donkeys made a movie for you about caring for your flower bulbs after they bloom. It seems to be that the standard practice is to roll the tops into a ball, put a rubber band around them and wait for them to turn brown before you cut them … Read Full Article

Miniature donkey shenanigans.

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Listen up, me and the donkeys, Finnegan and Fergus, made a video for you that just might save you a giant headache when it comes to your power equipment. I made this giant mistake and hopefully this will make sure that it does not happen to you. Not … Read Full Article

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A couple of years ago I posted a video and some photos of the landscaping around our house and one guy said something like, "It's a good thing you know how to grow plants because your landscape design skills are terrible. So when I did an update I titled the … Read Full Article

Busting Gardening Myths!

One of Our Members, http://backyardgrowers.com/join, shared this article with the other members. It's a great article about long held gardening beliefs that just flat out are not true. I'd love to display the article here but I just don't have permission to … Read Full Article

How to Move Heavy things the Easy Way.

It's that time of year when I have to put balls on the Japanese maples that we dug earlier this spring. On this page, https://mikesbackyardnursery.com/2021/04/how-to-put-a-ball-and-burlap-on-a-bare-root-tree-that-has-been-previously-dug/, I show you how I put … Read Full Article

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