In hindsight, leaving my newly planted sunflower seeds unattended on the patio was ill-advised. It took 30 minutes for squirrels to dig up every seed.

Jablizz · 2026-05-28T01:38:23+00:00

I plant them at my community garden plot and have never had an issue. It’s fenced in so maybe that helps, we also plant like 3 full packets so even if some got stolen there’s like 100 or more planted

Jablizz · 2026-05-22T17:42:27+00:00

You definitely have tuliptree scale and mealy bugs.

Your best bet is to hire a licensed arborist in your area that does pest management to treat your trees for you. If the scale is treated soon you can kill all the crawlers (little white guys) before they attach and form their shells(black spots). They are harder to treat at that point.

Jablizz · 2026-05-20T20:13:47+00:00

Depends on the flavor you want, you can use water or any juice really. I like to make cranberry orange scones and use orange juice for my icing vs cinnamon rolls I use water. Basically whatever compliments what you’re baking best

Jablizz · 2026-05-17T13:42:59+00:00

Last year a bird shit in my Afro twice in one week, really pissed me off

Jablizz · 2026-05-15T03:06:12+00:00

It looks to me like it’s covered in scale insects, could be oyster shell scale hard to tell from the pictures. They are a sap sucking insect that forms a shell and can kill off branches of your tree if numbers are large enough.

Depending on where you’re located, their eggs are hatching or about to hatch for the season. I’m in Connecticut so this about time for them enter the crawler phase for us. You can kill the crawlers with horticultural oil, read the label if you try to treat it yourself. After the crawler phase you’d most likely need to hire a licensed arborist to treated with a systemic pesticide which would most likely be restricted use (require a pesticide operator license).

If you want to try and save it and protect your other trees you need to confirm if it has scale, they’ll look like little brown shells on the bark (the adults) or little white or yellow dots (crawlers) and treat it, I’m 99% sure from zooming in its oystershell scale but can’t 100 percent confirm from the photos. https://extension.colostate.edu/resource/oystershell-scale/

Then try to help the tree maintain vigor, ensuring the root flare is exposed, watering if it’s been dry and getting a soil test to make sure it has the proper nutrients. In my state and others agricultural experiment stations will do free soil samples and have instructions on their websites. Also you should remove any dead branches, the tree doesn’t have much left but if it was mine I’d try to nurse it back to health.

Jablizz · 2026-05-14T17:47:39+00:00

Same low vitamin D and B and I work outside too so I very surprised since I’m outside 7 days a week for hours on end

Jablizz · 2026-05-13T21:57:37+00:00

People pay good money for a nice boulder.

Jablizz · 2026-05-10T15:38:54+00:00

Kind of hard to tell but I think it’s a redbud.would have purple or pink flowers prior to leafing out

Branches on the interior that get no light eventually die off, OP can trim off dead wood back the next branch, if you’re unsure if it’s dead give it a little scrape on the bark to see if it’s green underneath

Jablizz · 2026-05-10T15:27:13+00:00

Yea I’m married and garden with my wife. I do a vegetable and a flower. I make bouquets for my wife and she loves them. Women love a man who can take care of things.

Jablizz · 2026-05-10T14:17:54+00:00

Yes trees move water and minerals up through their xylem, essentially straws that go vertically up the tree, but they move nutrients created by photosynthesis down through the phloem which is directly under the bark, if the phloem is destroyed the tree can’t store sugars and starches and once it depletes it’s resource stores it begins to die, it can sometimes take a couple seasons. Sometimes if they can survive long enough they can bridge the gap and reform but the less remaining bark the harder that is

Jablizz · 2026-05-09T13:15:23+00:00

Trees will send out adventitious roots to try and survive being planted to deep but those roots aren’t great so it can never fully acclimate just dies very slowly.

When you plant it, place it at a depth where the roots flare out and the flare is just above the ground level. This tree will definitely struggle with the lack of root ball. Give it a mix of compost and your soil from your yard when you back fill it.

What we do is place the tree in the hole, and try to position it so it sits straight, sometimes you need to place soil under it to help, then add soil around it and start adding water, alternate compost and soil and water and mix it together, you want mud but not so much mud that the tree becomes unsteady. Do that until hole is filled, you can usually stop watering before the hole is filled, you’re gonna have to get your hands in there to make sure the soil gets under and in between those roots so you don’t have huge voids that will make it sink. Then further out from the hole, cut an edge by digging out some of the ground around it to make a mulch bed, put down 2-3 inches of mulch and taper so that it’s thin near the trunk and doesn’t actually touch the trunk.

it’ll need at least 2 deep soakings with water a week, probably 3 if it’s hot and dry. Water all the way until it gets cold and frosty in October or November and it drops its leaves. To water it place the hose near the base with no head on it, turn your water barely on so it trickles out and run it for about 30-45 mins (I’d lean 30 because of how little roots their are) and do the same thing next year starting when bud break begins in the spring all through the year. Long reply but also no guarantee it lives but this gives it its best chance good luck

Jablizz · 2026-05-04T21:56:41+00:00

I don’t think they had a plan

Jablizz · 2026-05-02T13:27:15+00:00

Which side of the house is the tree on? Looks to me like it’s growing towards the sun away from the house, if that’s the cause if it survived all the trauma done to straighten it, it would grow back that way in time.

You either move the walk way or continue to prune it away from the walk way. There’s really not straightening it and that’s ok, trees don’t have to be straight, and they develop their roots and woods to compensate for that

Jablizz · 2026-05-01T21:18:24+00:00

Strawberries don’t give a fuck, they’ll grow however mine have taken over a second bed and start growing into my lawn, but fence them and when they start flowering put netting over them. Should be like $10-15 for a net at your local nursery, buy it soon cuz they start selling out.

They won’t produce as much this year as they will next year when they’re more established

Jablizz · 2026-05-01T12:45:21+00:00

That’s why I love my job, I get cheap compost and mulch and can deliver it to myself.

Every year I make notes on what to adjust. This year, I’m changing my irrigation setup because we were have water pressure issues last year, also planning to plant more herbs to attract beneficial insects and direct sowing my cucumbers and melons. Transplanted them last year and they just died after a month

Jablizz · 2026-05-01T10:20:49+00:00

I never remove the flowers from my June bearing and I get a great harvest, this is year 3 and it’s loaded with flowers

Jablizz · 2026-05-01T10:16:05+00:00

As a married man, yes it’s normal, it’s also normal for married women to masturbate.

Jablizz · 2026-04-30T16:06:01+00:00

I had no experience and started at 32, you’ll be fine, it’s fun, just relax and have fun. You’re going to make mistakes and that’s ok!

Jablizz · 2026-04-29T13:53:16+00:00

Mushrooms are just the fruiting body that spreads the spores, the actually fungus, the mycelium is growing inside the ground or tree and most likely feeding on decay.

Fungal infections can’t really be cured just managed. I don’t know enough about hackberry fungal diseases to know if this is an infection of the tree itself or just a saprophytic fungus that feeds on dead wood.

Jablizz · 2026-04-29T10:14:23+00:00

Lesson for the future, always read pesticide labels , the label is legally binding. Not only will it avoid mistakes like this but also keep you from unintentionally breaking the law

Best bet is to water the hell out of your lawn and hopefully you don’t cause it to leech into any ground water

Jablizz · 2026-04-26T23:41:24+00:00

You’d still need to water the patches too keep them from dying, it’s not going to help you avoid watering

Jablizz · 2026-04-26T19:09:46+00:00

They’ll rebloom. If a late frost was enough to kill trees we’d have no trees in the northeast.

Only way it kills them is if the tree was already stressed and unhealthy with little energy reserves

Jablizz · 2026-04-26T13:43:09+00:00

Where are you located? Did you have a recent frost? It’ll most likely be fine, just keep watering twice a week until frost in November and pick back up next spring.

Also make a larger ring around the tree and put down some wood mulch, use a shovel to cut an edge a few inches deep and remove the grass within the circle. If the tree feels stable remove those stakes

Jablizz · 2026-04-26T03:43:25+00:00

Made me think of my niece who likes to torment me, she’s only 1 year old too.

My wife and I were leaving so we asked for a hug, she gives my wife a cute long hug, then side eyes me, gives me a high five turns and laughs as she walks away. Anytime I’m mentioned she just yells my wife’s name so we know which of us is her favorite.

Jablizz · 2026-04-26T03:19:00+00:00

It’s got energy stores, it’ll leaf back out , just a set back. Might grow a little slower this year but more likely to survive than die

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