Preemergent weed control time is rapidly approaching. Just spread a product and no small seeded annual weeds to worry about for a few months (check label for weeds controlled). Keep weeds away before they take over your lawn and ornamental plantings. ...  

Here are a few things to do on these nice winter days. Get soil tested - for everyone that has not already. Kill winter weeds now while they are young. Take mower in to have serviced to beat the spring rush. With the new ethanol gas, lawn mower en ...  

Last week I met with the Mount Pleasant Garden Club. We were talking about SeaHume G, Wetting Agents, Cotton Burr Compost, soil tests, custom programs, organic fertilizer and many other products. It was great because I would mention a product and sev ...  

Happy New Year! Well, what a December in the Lowcountry. The warm weather, the snakes, the gnats and the moles gave us a very interesting Holiday Season. For one month I went from being "The Possum Man" to being "The Mole Man". Between writing a thr ...  

I still recommend a three-pronged approach when controlling moles for the less adventurous. These three steps are: 1. Kill the mole 2. Manage its food source 3. Repel other moles from your yard Moles tunnel through your yard looking for food. The ...  

Moles are really active once again. Every year I try not to write about them because I have been writing about them for more than 20 years; however, when the question keeps popping up, I figure many other people have the same question. People leaving ...  

Excellerator (Excell for short) is a new product that has been bringing the Lowcountry gardener many good results over the past year. Excell is granular specialty micronutrient fertilizer that contains 39 percent Silicon along with many other micronu ...  

Congratulations to another grounds superintendent who uses Possum's Products on their facility. Bobby Behr, Adam and the many student helpers at Ashley Ridge High School won the Sports Turf Manager's Association (STMA) NATIONAL Softball Field of the ...  

I was out this weekend and the Salvation Army Bell was ringing and the Christmas tree sales tents were going up. I wanted to get this article out early, so you could make plans to go to a local Christmas tree farm, find a local source for a cut tree ...  

The great Lowcountry weather continues. We could definitely use some rain. The people that put out ryegrass in non-irrigated areas would certainly like some rain before the temperatures get too cold for the rye to germinate and thicken up. Fleas seem ...  

It's a little cool some mornings, but the beautiful days continue. Oyster roasts, Frogmore stew and fish fries are in full swing. What a great time to be in the Lowcountry. The Holiday Festival of Lights at James Island County Park is just around the ...  

The weather has been as nice as I can ever remember it the Lowcountry the past few weeks. Visiting the state, county, city, and town parks is a must this time of year. Walking through the peninsula of Charleston or other Lowcountry cities can be mos ...  

This time of year is a great time to transplant and plant new plants. Many people are asking me the best way to transplant shrubs and trees. Here are my guidelines for successfully transplanting plants or trees: Decide the size of you root ball. F ...  

If you are planning on transplanting a tree this fall, now is the time to root prune. For root pruning trees, a good rule of thumb is for every inch in diameter of tree, you want 12 inches of root ball. Sometimes this is not practical because you are ...  

Have you noticed how loaded the pecan trees are this year? The branches are so heavy with nuts that they are breaking off the trees. If you like to grill with a little pecan wood smoke flavor, this is the perfect time to pick up some small limbs to ...  

First things first, I want to congratulate Mike Williams of the Charleston RiverDogs for winning the South Atlantic League's "Groundskeeper of the Year" award. Mike has won this award two of the last three years (my personal opinion is the powers-at ...  

For the new readers of the Horticulture Hotline, my to-do lists are designed to help you target a few activities in your yard and in your home that will benefit you in the future. These lists are not designed to interfere with high school, college or ...  

After sending out our five star alerts on sod webworms, I had several people thank me for the "head's up." They were able to catch the damage early and have the grass recover from the munching very quickly. We are still getting calls about this pest ...  

What a difference a week makes. The hurricane went north of us and hardly did any damage to the Lowcountry trees in the process. Erosion along the beaches might be another situation, depending on where you live. If the storm threat or the aftermath o ...  

The "H" word is being mentioned again and again on the news this morning. We have been lucky the past few years. The storms have gone the other way. You never like to wish bad upon your neighbor, but with a hurricane, you kind of have to…In ...  

Have you driven around and noticed all the damage from "The Nasty Rascal", the chinch bug? Mixed yards are the best. The St. Augustine Grass is nailed and whatever grass or grasses it shares the lawn with are not affected. One more application of Se ...  

Although it is still 100 degrees in the Lowcountry, it is already time to begin to think about your fall/winter plans around the yard. In just a couple of weeks, The Sertoma Classic kicks off high school football with college and pro to follow. Volle ...  

Last week's article about me using blue spray dye as an indicator of where I had sprayed (if you missed the article, you can access by going to www. possumsupply.com under the Horticulture Hotline section), resulted in several phone calls to me from ...  

If your animal had fleas and you tried to control them over the past two weeks, hopefully, you are seeing a reduction in the flea population by now. 2011 has been a very busy so far. Drought, record heat, three stores, chinch bugs in April, new produ ...  

Professional pest managers will always do a great job at controlling fleas because they are professionals and they do this for a living. Since fleas are in so many different life cycles, give the exterminator at least two weeks for their product to ...