Randy Lemmon's Weekly Journal and Newsletter Archives
To look up a topic from Randy's past email tips or blog entries, just type an appropriate word or two in the search box above. A list of some back issues is also posted below. (NOTE: Ads, contests and some links may no longer be valid in older issues.)
8-30-12 - Finally ... An Answer For Stink Bug Control! (Maybe) 8-23-12 - Cicada Killer Wasps 8-16-12 - My Love/Hate Relationship with Magnolias 8-9-12 - Fall Vegetable Gardening 7-26-12 - Mushroom Mania 7-17-12 - What now, after all the rain? 6-28-12 - Yellowing Grass 6-21-12 - Top 5 Things to Think About with My Summer Fertilization 6-14-12 - Top 10 GardenLine Commandments 6-7-12 - Top Heat-Loving Plants For The Houston Area 5-31-12 - Crape Myrtle Chronicles 2012 5-17-12 - "It's Never Too Late to Do the Right Thing" Applied 5-3-12 - Plant Profile Redux: Sweet Almond Verbena 4-26-12 - Japanese Maples: Worth A Try 4-19-12 - "Feed Me, Seymour!" 3-29-12 - A Litany of Lawn Questions 3-22-12 - My Fertilization Schedule Works Better and Costs Less 3-15-12 - Clarification of "Till" in Kill, Till, Fill 'n' Sod 3-8-12 - All Things Trees 2-23-12 - What Now, After All The Rains? 2-16-12 - What is this 'Sweet Green' you speak of so highly? 2-9-12 - Weed Warrior Chronicles - Part II 2-2-12 - Help Bat Conservation in Texas 1-26-12 - Save the Songbirds 1-19-12 - Like Us on Facebook; Going Organic Starts with Organic Soils 1-12-12 - For Those Chompin' at the Bit to Get Busy 12-15-11 - Be Water-Wise to Fight Back Against Any Drought 12-8-11 - Cyclamen - The Perfect Shade-Loving Winter Annual 12-1-11 - Earlier-Than-Normal Weed Infestation 11-3-11 - Dead Tree Removal Time 10-27-11 - Bill Zak Passes Away at 86 10-20-11 - Time for Cool-Season Herbicide 10-13-11 - Brownpatch Blows Up Overnight! 9-28-11 - To Winterize or Not After The Drought 9-21-11 - Rain, Rain … Come Again for Many Days! 9-8-11 - Why You Should Build Your Own Beds 9-1-11 - Lessons Learned from the Drought 8-25-11 - "This Too Shall Pass" 8-18-11 - Trees Need Your Help During Drought 8-4-11 - Wanna Grow Grapes for the Texas Wine Industry? 7-28-11 - Drought Discussion 7-14-11 - Prepare for An Uber Chinch Bug Infestation! 7-7-11 - Houston Mourns Two Great Gardening Influencers 6-30-11 - Why I Love My Job 6-23-11 - Top Heat-Loving Plants 6-16-11 - Irrigation in Drought Conditions 6-1-11 - Weed-N-Feeds Will Kill Your Trees Quicker in Drought 5-19-11 - Deadheading & De-Seeding 5-12-11 - Despite the Lack of Rain, Stay True to "The Schedule" 4-21-11 - My Fertilizer Schedule is Safe for Dogs and Kids 4-14-11 - Killing Fire Ants - What I Learned from the Real Experts 4-7-11 - Getting Rid of Bermuda in St. Augustine - Part Deux 3-31-11 - Fire Ant Control in Vegetable Gardens & Compost Piles 3-24-11 - Yard Fogging 3-10-11 - My Name Equals Cheap Mulch ... Again! 3-3-11 - Citrus Tree Pruning Season 2-24-11 - Weed Warrior Chronicles 2-17-11 - Recovering From a Freeze - Rules To Live By 2-10-11 - Organic Landscape and Gardening Fair 1-27-11 - The New Book is Now Available (Sort Of) 1-20-11 - Top 10 Growing Tips for Tomato/Veggie Gardens 1-13-11 - Surfactants In Weed Control 1-6-11 - Free Gardening Classes by Harris County AgriLife Extension 12-16-10 - Fruit Tree Sales 12-9-10 - Stocking Stuffers 12-2-10 - Get the Best Poinsettias Ever 11-24-10 - Food-Grade vs. Pool-Grade Diatomaceous Earth (D.E.) 11-18-10 - Annual Crape Myrtle Massacre 11-11-10 - Stock Up On Frost Blankets 11-4-10 - Never Use Rubber Mulch in Landscapes 10-28-10 - Insect Galls: The Invasion of the Brown Fuzzies! 10-21-10 - Turning Autumn Leaves into Mulch 10-14-10 - If You Want Bluebonnets in Spring, Plant Your Seeds In October 10-7-10 - Divide Bulbs & Perennials 9-30-10 - Brownpatch Reminder 9-23-10 - Trees For Houston Gets to the Root of Reforestation 9-16-10 - Bug Identification - Randy's Inside Secrets 9-9-10 - Randy's Ramblings 9-2-10 - Fall Vegetable Gardening Classes 8-26-10 - Weed Alert: Doveweed and Chamberbitter 8-19-10 - An Overview on Irrigation 8-12-10 - The Cyclical Nature of Insect Populations 8-5-10 - Nutgrass Control All Different Ways 7-29-10 - SPEAK, RANDY, SPEAK! (Getting Randy to Address Your Event) 7-22-10 - The Three C's of Summer Gardening: Coleus, Caladiums and Copper Leaf Plants (Plus, Thoughts on Fertilizers) 7-15-10 - The Keys to Lawn Watering: Less Is More; Deeper is Better; Early is Best!! 7-8-10 - Mosquito Control After The Rains 7-1-10 - Water-Wise Irrigation Practices 6-24-10 - To Fertilize or Not to Fertilize? That is the Question! 6-17-10 - Managing Mushrooms 6-10-10 - Garden Weasel AG Crabgrass Control Really Works! 5-20-10 - Green Up The Grass: Randy Clarifies! 5-13-10 - Thrips & Spider Mites Unfazed by January Freeze 5-6-10 - Getting Bermuda Grass Out of St. Augustine 4-29-10 - Aeration 101 4-15-10 - It's Officially Show & Sale Season! 4-8-10 - Ten Commandments of Mulch 4-1-10 - Randy Answers the Question, "Why do they sell it, then?" 3-11-10 - What You Should Never Do (Especially if you listen to GardenLine!) 3-4-10 - Citrus Pruning Is Critical This Year 2-11-10 - All Your Palms & Tropicals Freeze Questions Answered 2-4-10 - Anxious to Get Busy In the Landscape? 1-28-10 - Multiple Timely Tips 1-21-10 - Still Too Early to Work the Landscape But Never Too Late to Keep Learning 1-14-10 - Recovery After the Freeze of 2010 12-17-09 - Freeze Damage 12-10-09 - 2009 GardenLine Gift Guide 11-25-09 - To Winter Rye Or Not? 11-19-09 - Cool Weather Means Many Things to Talk About 11-12-09 - Perfect Time for Cool-Season Annuals/Color 11-5-09 - Fire Ant Frenzy 2009 10-29-09 - Top 10 GardenLine Horrors 10-22-09 - Fun With Mulch 10-15-09 - You Can Save Money By Doing It Yourself, When it Comes to THE SCHEDULE!! 10-8-09 - Wildflower Season is Upon Us ... Planting Season, That Is!!! 10-1-09 - Winterize Your Lawn?!?! What's the Order?!?!? 9-24-09 - Beware of Damage from Sod Webworms, Armyworms and Cutworms 9-17-09 - Autumn Months are Best for Landscape Projects 9-10-09 - Attack of the Southern Pine Bark Beetles 9-3-09 - Brownpatch Control Alert 8-20-09 - In Remembrance of John Teas 8-20-09 - Randy's Love/Hate Relationship with Magnolias 8-13-09 - Despite the Heat, It’s Fall Vegetable Time 8-6-09 - Yellow Grass? 7-31-09 - It wasn't Crab, Goose or Dallisgrass! Then What Was It??? 7-16-09 - Crabgrass Control 101 7-9-09 - Gardening's Dirty Word – Those Chitty Chinch Bugs 7-2-09 - To Fertilize or Not to Fertilize? That is the Question! 6-25-09 - Mulch Madness Part Deux 6-18-09 - RCW Nurseries Turns 30 6-11-09 - OHBA Helps Turn Houston "Green" 6-4-09 - The Three Cs of Summer Gardening: Coleus, Caladiums and Copper Leaf Plants (And thoughts on fertilizers) 5-28-09 - Potting Soil Possibilities 5-21-09 - Keeping Dogs and Cats Out of The Garden 5-14-09 - Hibiscus Heaven 5-7-09 - Rains, Fertilizer Bring on Two Diseases; Summer Annuals Might Need to be Replanted 4-30-09 - Do I Re-apply My Fertilizer After All The Rains? 4-16-09 - Moody Gardens Reopens Rainforest Pyramid 4-9-09 - Plant Physiologist/Organic Chemistry Expert Says: The Quickest Way to Green Up Your Yard is ... 4-2-09 - The Lazy Gardener Goes Totally Digital 3-26-09 - Fertilization Schedule - Green Light Means Go! 3-12-09 - Bluebonnets 3-5-09 - Texas-Tough Perennials 2-26-09 - Herbs 101 Classes & Companion Herb Plantings 2-19-09 - Mulch Madness 2-12-09 - Weed Control 101 2-5-09 - No Need to Fear Pruning Fruit Trees 1-28-09 - Vegetable Gardens Require Right Varieties and Right Timing 1-21-09 - Going Green Starts with Organic Soils 1-15-09 - Year-Round Fruit From Your Back Yard 1-8-09 - Happy New Year! I Need Your Help in Early 2009 12-18-08 - Grafting Non-Producing Citrus And Avacado 12-4-08 - All the Places to Get Randy's Book 11-20-08 - Perfect Time For Cool Season Herbicide 11-13-08 - Ultima Radiance - The Ultimate in Pansies 11-6-08 - Brazilian Red Cloak, Wax Rose, Chenille Plant, Sweet Almond Verbena plus Pansies and Other Fall Color 10-30-08 - Save Money, Take 3: Do-It-Yourself Pest Control 10-23-08 - Plant A Tree, Save A Buck 10-16-08 - You Will Really Save Money If You Stop Using National Fertilization Companies 10-9-08 - Weeds, Consan, Pruning 10-2-08 - October Presents Optimum Opportunity 9-25-08 - Soil Remediation with Soil Activators 9-4-08 - Brownpatch Update #163,578 8-28-08 - Disease Control of Containerized Plants with Great Compost 8-21-08 - Managing Mushrooms 8-14-08 - Fall Webworms Here A Bit Early 8-7-08 - Don’t Let Coleus Go To Seed 7-31-08 - Plumeria Summer-Care Tips 7-24-08 - Pink Hibiscus Mealy Bugs 7-17-08 - The Golden Shower Tree 7-10-08 - Let Dead Trees Live! 7-3-08 - What is This "WATER-IN" Product You Speak of??? 6-26-08 - Top Ten Fall Tomatoes 6-19-08 - For Fresh Tomatoes, Find a Farmers Market 6-12-08 - Tomato Sentry Guards Against All 6-5-08 - That Dirty Word in Gardening: Those Chitty-Chinch Bugs 5-29-08 - St. Augustine Grass Going to Seed 5-22-08 - Plant Profile: Abutilon (The African Hibiscus) 5-14-08 - Plant Profile: Sweet Almond Verbena (Aloysia) 5-8-08 - Plant Profile: Gold Duranta 5-1-08 - Bahama Bay Hibiscus: That’s What Was in My Driveway! 4-24-08 - Love Bugs: What's To Love? 4-17-08 - Nelson Water Gardens Profile 4-10-08 - "Vacation" Helps Your Plants While You're On Vacation 4-3-08 - Thrillers, Fillers and Spillers: The Art of Container Gardening 3-27-08 - Growing Tomatoes Upside Down 3-13-08 - Deep-root Feed Your Trees 3-6-08 - Debunking the Thatch Myth 2-28-08 - All About Aeration - Plus a Profile of Shades of Texas 2-14-08 - To 15-5-10 or Not to 15-5-10, That is the Question! 2-7-08 - Avocado Culture, Super Bowl Recipes, GetTING Back on "The Schedule," Roses & Chocolate Seminar 1-31-08 - Timely Tomato Tips (All Veggies, Actually) Start with Building the Perfect Beds 1-24-08 - Dormant Oil & Scale Control 1-17-08 - Crape Myrtle Massacre 1-10-08 - Freeze Protection Tips 12-20-07 - Perfect Time For Cool-Season Herbicide 12-13-07 - Holiday Gift Guide for 2007 12-06-07 - To Winter Rye or Not? 11-15-07 - The Poinsettia Chronicles 11-01-07 - In Memory of Marcia Roenigk: A Testament to Faith 10-25-07 - Black Thrips Affect Ficus 10-18-07 - "WHEN" TO APPLY WHAT & IGNORANT LANDSCAPERS PLANTING MAGNOLIAS TOO CLOSE TO THE FOUNDATION 10-04-07 - PREMATURE PANSY PLANTINGS 09-27-07 - ALL I KNOW ABOUT BROWNPATCH - WHICH WILL CHANGE NEXT YEAR!!! 09-20-07 - PICTURE PROOF: THE LAWN SCHEDULE WORKS! 09-06-07 - HUMMINGBIRD SEASON 08-30-07 - CONTROLLING LICHEN AND BALL MOSS 08-23-07 - BASKETGRASS: A NEW WEED FOR HOUSTON? 08-16-07 - FEAST OR FAMINE! FROM DELUGE TO DROUGHT: EFFECTS ON THE LANDSCAPE 08-09-07 - EERIE WEB COVERING TREE TRUNKS A.K.A. THE BARK LICE 08-02-07 - DO YOU WANT RANDY TO COME SPEAK TO YOUR GROUP? 07-26-07 - IMPENDING INSECT INVASION 07-19-07 - PLANTS THAT LIKE WET FEET! 07-12-07 - WHAT NOW, AFTER ALL THESE RAINS? 06-28-07 - GETTING RID OF BAMBOO, ONCE AND FOR ALL 06-21-07 - FALL WEBWORMS - MAYBE WE SHOULD CALL THEM SUMMER WEBWORMS 06-14-07 - DESPITE THE EMAIL CHAIN, ASPARTAME IS NOT A FIRE ANT KILLER! 06-07-07 - VITEX - A GOOD ALTERNATIVE TO THE CRAPE MYRTLE 05-24-07 - Flowers Build Positive Attitude - STUDY PROVES IT! 05-17-07 - The Mimosa - The Beauty and The Beast 05-10-07 - Nutgrass: A Harbinger of Take All Patch 05-03-07 - Drought Tolerant Landscape Plants 04-26-07 - Sweet Almond Verbena (Aloysia) 04-19-07 - Termites Are Not Tempted By My Mulches 04-12-07 - Deep Root Watering and Feeding Your Trees! 04-05-07 - Spreader Settings Subtleties 03-29-07 - Mulch, Mulch More on Mulch< 03-22-07 - It's Raining Worms - Invasion of the Oak Leaf Roller 03-15-07 - Texas Mountain Laurel 03-08-07 - Horticultural Gems on Display at Moody Gardens' Living Jewels of the Rainforest 03-01-07 - What's Going on in Randy's Yard??? (Is it a Tip or is it a Blog?) 02-22-07 - All About Aeration 02-08-07 - Want to Harvest Fruit Year Round in the Garden??? 02-01-07 - Visual Proof of Randy's Color-Tiering Technique 01-25-07 - Using Surfactants in Weed Control 01-18-07 - Crape Murder and Pruning Myths Abound 01-11-07 - January Weed Control 01-04-07 - Gardenline is Moving Back to NewsRadio 740 KTRH 12-01-06 - Nothing Says Christmas Like a Real Tree, So Go Cut Your Own! 11-23-06 - Can There Ever Be Too Much of a Good Thing? 11-16-06 - Let's Catch Scale Early This Year! 11-09-06 - To Winter Rye or Not? 11-02-06 - Cool Season Annuals Go in Now: Read My Planting Technique To Insure Success 10-26-06 - If You Want Wildflowers In The Spring, Plant Them Now 10-19-06 - After All These Rains - Now What? 10-12-06 - Cycad Scale Sucking the Life from Sago Palms 10-5-06 - Early To Bed, Early To Rise… Work Like Heck and Winterize 09-28-06 - October Presents Optimum Opportunity 09-21-06 - Brown Patch Ready to Rear its Head 09-14-06 - Mums the Word on Too Early Pansies 09-07-06 - Leaf Miners - The Bane of Most Citrus Citrus Trees 08-31-06 - Despite The Heat, Now's The Time To Start Fall Veggies! 08-24-06 - What Causes Hibiscus Buds to Drop Prematurely? 08-17-06 - My, My, Those Mealy Bugs Are Messy This Year!!! 08-10-06 - Fall Webworms - Unsightly, Yes! Deadly, No!! 08-03-06 - Another Homemade Insect Killer Designed For Scale 07-20-06 - What's This Flower? 07-13-06 - Mosquito Controls For Worst Season in Years 06-29-06 - After All These Rains - Now What? 06-22-06 - The Truth Behind Home-Made Mosquito Controls 06-15-06 - The Schedule Works - Even My Neighbors Say So 06-08-06 - Kong Coleus, King Of My Garden 06-01-06 - Don't Let All The Rain Fool You 05-25-06 - Those Chitty-Chinch Bugs Chewin' Up Yards 05-18-06 - Four Tips for the Price of One 05-11-06 - Is Chlorine the Culprit? 05-04-06 - The Organic Version of the Lawn Fertilization Schedule 04-27-06 - Most Common Mistakes With Sago Palms 04-13-06 - Surfactants For The Soil, To Help The Water Penetrate 04-06-06 - Hazardous Waste Collections This Saturday 03-30-06 - FAQs on Turf Issues 03-23-06 - Core Aeration Gets To The Root Of Hard Soil 03-16-06 - Randy Lemmon Equals Cheap Mulch!!! 03-9-06 - Email Hoax On Termites 03-02-06 - Wanna Be An Azalea Expert? 02-23-06 - Pruning Practices On Roses 02-16-06 - Gray Leaf Rot Ugly? 02-09-06 - I Know The Weather Is Beautiful, But... 01-19-06 - Want Randy Lemmon or Another Garden Expert to Speak at Your Event??? 01-05-06 - Despite The Warm Weather, Tree Pruning Still Essential 12-08-05 - Getting Ready For An Inevitable Freeze 12-01-05 - 2005 Gardenline Gift Giving Guide 11-24-05 - Poinsettia Do's and Don'ts 11-17-05 - Let's Catch Scale Early This Year! 11-10-05 - To Winter Rye Or Not? 11-03-05 - An Excerpt From Randy's New Book 10-27-05 - Time To Plant All Those Cool-Season Annuals! 10-20-05 - Time To Winterize, Time To Stock Up On Fertilizer (For One Year)! 10-13-05 - Encore Azaleas - More Blooms, More Often 09-29-05 - The Schedule Works 09-22-05 - Love Bug Season, Again 09-15-05 - It's Not Too Early To Be Thinking About Brown Patch Control 09-8-05 - Landscape Re-do 09-1-05 - Controlling Cotton Root Rot 08-25-05 - Top Ten Lawn Topics For August 08-18-05 - Want To Be A Master Gardener? 08-11-05 - Take All Patch (Take All Root Rot) 08-04-05 - Randy, What's This Flower? 07-28-05 - Crape Myrtle Chronicles For 2005... 07-14-05 - Plumera Sale And Ginger Workshop... 07-07-05 - Summer Concerns For The Water Gardener... 06-30-05 - What May Seem Odd To Newcomers Is Just Standard Operating Procedure For Hibiscus And Crape Myrtles... 06-23-05 - Many Opportunities For Versatile Azalea Food... 06-16-05 - A Few Good Past Tips... 06-09-05 - Lace Bug Damages Azaleas & Lantana 06-02-05 - Coleus -- The All Purpose Annual For Summer 05-26-05 - Water Wise Irrigation Practices 05-19-05 - HOW GOOD ARE YOUR HOME-GROWN TOMATOES? Think They're Good Enough to Win a Contest? 05-12-05 - Killing Nutsedge, Nutgrass & Kyillinga 04-28-05 - White Powdery Mildew Arriving Ahead Of Schedule This Year 04-14-05 - GardenLine Staple Products... 04-07-05 - Thinking Outside The Pot... 03-31-05 - Creepy Caterpillers Come Calling... 03-24-05 - Want To Become A Better Gardener? 03-17-05 - Fire Ant Update... 03-10-05 - It's That Time Again... 03-03-05 - De-Thatch And Other Interesting Stuff... 02-24-05 - Some Plants Are Poisonous To Pets -- But Don't Overreact... 02-17-05 - Azalea Trail... 02-10-05 - So Many Topics, So Little Time... 01-27-05 - Breaking Down The Dethatching Myth 01-20-05 - Heirloom Seed Seminar 01-13-05 - Freeze Damage Reminder On Tropical Plants 01-06-05 - New Year's Resolutions
