Expensive Neil: I am remaining included up with dollarweed in my St. Augustine and also in my shrub beds. I’ve applied a solution labeled exclusively to command dollarweed, but without good results. What will get rid of it?

Reply: 1st, dollarweed has leaves the measurement of the palm or your hand borne on stems 2-4 inches previously mentioned the floor. Which is to distinguish it from the generally misidentified dichondra. The latter has kidney-shaped leaves the dimension of your thumbnail, and it trails alongside the ground hardly 1 inch higher than the soil floor. Each can be managed with a broadleaf weedkiller spray containing 2,4-D, but just about every offers special worries. Dollarweed leaves are ultimately glossy, so it’s difficult to get the spray to adhere to the leaf surfaces. Contain just one drop of liquid dishwashing detergent per gallon of spray to assistance break the area tension and coat the leaves. Near the shrubs, even so, you’ll have to utilize it with a foam rubber paintbrush to avoid injury to the shrubs given that they’re broadleafed plants in their have right. And the dichondra is so lower-rising that it hides beneath St. Augustine. Its leaves also form modest funnels that direct the spray off the leaves and on to the soil. The moment once more, you will have to coat the leaf surfaces meticulously. And, with the two vegetation, you will likely have to deal with two or a few situations a several months apart.

Dear Neil: I had my stay oaks pruned two several years ago. They did not use pruning paint on them, and at any time considering the fact that, dried or dead patches have appeared on them. I have purple wandering Jew around them, and I’m wondering if it could have a poisoning result on them. I’m also questioning if it could be oak wilt, while a couple of folks have explained it was not. What would cause that? I’m attaching a picture.

Reply: Unfortunately, no photograph came connected to your e-mail. If you’re conversing about personal branches that turned brown and dried, I would suspect squirrel problems. That is fairly popular on are living oaks (also pecans). If which is the circumstance, the trees will be fantastic in the extended run. As for…