Nov 1, 2016 | Garden Care, Lawn Care, Video
A soil test will help you find out how to make your lawn and garden healthier. It’s simple to collect soil samples and send them to a laboratory, and testing is not expensive. The results will determine your soil’s pH and nutrient levels. This video shows...
Oct 25, 2016 | Disease Control, Eco-friendly Gardening, Garden Care, Pest Control, Tree Care
Cleaning up your garden now will make your plants healthier next year. If you can prevent pests, diseases and weed seeds from overwintering, you’ll have a head start next year. And you’ll have less work to do if you can prevent problems before they start. Weeds,...
Oct 20, 2016 | Disease Control, Eco-friendly Gardening, Garden Care, Lawn Care, Tree Care
Fallen leaves are both a detriment to your lawn and a benefit to your garden beds. This is an important topic, so we are updating a blog post from last fall. Many trees provide a wondrous show in the fall, with leaves in hues of red, orange, brown and gold. But once...
Oct 13, 2016 | Garden Care, Pest Control
It seems like the root weevil notching appears out of nowhere. Because the adult root weevils feed at night, we see the damage but no insects. Notched leaves, especially along the edges, are a sign that root weevils are at work. These insects primarily chew on...
Oct 10, 2016 | Garden Care, Tree Care
We are rerunning a post from last year about evergreen needle drop because this is something we hear about every year from clients. Sometimes clients ask our staff, “What’s wrong with my cedar (or pine or fir)?! It’s dropping its needles!” Most frequently, the...
Sep 27, 2016 | Garden Care, Lawn Care, Video
Fall is a great time to apply lime to your lawn. Most Northwest soils have acidic soil (low pH). Adding lime will raise the soil’s pH, which helps your lawn and other plants absorb nutrients and grow better. This video tells you how to determine the amount of...
Sep 20, 2016 | Disease Control, Eco-friendly Gardening, Garden Care, Video
In Harmony has been using and brewing compost tea for well over a decade. Our state-of-the-art brewers allows us to use active live cultures of compost tea on our clients’ trees and shrubs. Compost tea has shown great benefits for our clients, including...
Sep 1, 2016 | Garden Care, Nature
It’s the end of summer. Time to just relax and enjoy your garden. Here are some photos and quotes to remind you of what gardens bring to our lives. Share this...
Aug 25, 2016 | Disease Control, Garden Care, Recommended Plants
Late summer in western Washington provides ideal conditions for powdery mildew. Powdery mildew is common on a wide range of plants, including annuals, perennials, food crops and ornamental shrubs. To help you manage it, we are updating a post on powdery mildew from...
Aug 16, 2016 | Garden Care, Pest Control, Recommended Plants
Plants that are drought stressed are more susceptible to insect pests and diseases. As we discussed in last week’s post about drought stress in trees, stressed plants often emit distress signals that many damaging insects pick up on. We are seeing signs of lace...
Aug 9, 2016 | Garden Care, Pest Control, Tree Care, Watering
Our mild climate allows us to grow many different types of plants. But they won’t thrive unless they get the moisture that they need to survive. Water is essential for the health of all plants. Sometimes we can be lulled into thinking that the occasional rain that we...
Jul 26, 2016 | Garden Care, Pest Control
Have you noticed damage on some of your plants in this hot, dry weather? It could be spider mites. Mites are common pests in landscapes and gardens. Spider mites damage plants by sucking juice from the underside of leaves. Unfortunately, they are often not...
Jul 14, 2016 | Eco-friendly Gardening, Garden Care, Tree Care
We love sea kelp. Sea kelp has been found to improve growth and color of plants and to enhance flowering in some species of plants. Sea kelp benefits plants because it: Contains trace elements that are deficient in most garden soils\ Supplies potassium, an essential...
Jul 7, 2016 | Garden Care, Tree Care
Summer is a great time to prune your trees and shrubs. The plants have gone through their big spring push. They are preparing for the summer heat and producing buds for next year’s spring growth. This spring has been as close to perfect growing conditions as we...
Jun 28, 2016 | Garden Care, Lawn Care, Video, Watering
Hose-end water timers can make watering your lawn and landscape easier and more efficient. In this video, In Harmony co-owner Ladd Smith shows and describes a few different options. Share this...
