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Garden Help Desk: Before using any pesticide, read the label

Every year we get multiple emails about plants with strange-looking leaves, and we’ve received several of these emails already this year. That must mean it’s time for our annual review about using pesticides properly. Many people think of insecticides when they hear the word pesticide, ...

Garden Help Desk: Options for treating, controlling elm scale

We just moved to Spanish Fork from Colorado Springs. The tree that we have in front of our home, which is on the south side, has a drippy sap coming from it. It looks like corn syrup with a gooey sugar-type substance along the branches of the tree. I am not sure what variety this tree is, but ...

Garden Help Desk: Preventing thrips damage on flowers and vegetables

What’s happened to my peas? Most of the pods on both my shelling peas and my sugar snap peas look like this. What can I do so that this doesn’t happen again? This looks like thrips damage. They’re a common pest on many different flowers, fruits and vegetables in local landscapes. Onion ...