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Gardening in Hawaiʻi with Tom Timmons: How to eat a tree
In the latest Big Island Now gardening column, Master Gardener Tom Timmons explains how to eat a tree. Yes, a tree. And he says it’s yummy.
Gardening in Hawaiʻi with Tom Timmons: Is my tomato a hypochondriac? Or is it really sick?
In another gardening column by Master Gardener Tom Timmons, he writes: “Sadly, tomatoes are subject to so many diseases that I think they may have suicidal tendencies. But with a little TLC, they will survive nicely until you rip them from the plant and chop them up for salsa.”
Gardening in Hawaiʻi with Tom Timmons: Are you smarter than a rose beetle? Can you outrun a snail?
In his latest Gardening in Hawaiʻi column, Kauaʻi Master Gardener Tom Timmons explains how to get rid of beetles, slugs and snails without chemicals.
Gardening in Hawaiʻi with Tom Timmons: The evil web of an avocado lace bug
To the naked eye, they may look like course ground pepper, but through a magnifying lens you will notice the edge of the wings have a lacy appearance — hence the name, lace bug.
Gardening in Hawaiʻi with Tom Timmons: Choosing a fertilizer for your lawn and plants
Master gardener Tom Timmons never realized that plants were fussy eaters until he was lollygagging in the garden shop rather than cleaning the garage like he promised his wife and discovered shelves piled with every imaginable kind of fertilizer.
