Common questions from the still newbie

Salaam · June 2, 2017

Hello all,

Hope all your gardens are doing well! I've got a couple of questions that I still have after a few years of growing:

1. Pruning - What do you do with the leaves after you remove the suckers? Remove them too? So far in my 'career' I've pruned only a little - just to reduce an unwieldy plant or to remove disease.

2. Fertilizing and mulch - When I've got pine mulch down, as I'll be having this year, it's a bit of a pain removing the mulch and then putting down some granular fertilizer. Should I be using just sprayable fertilizer? If I had plastic mulch, wouldn't this be the only option?

June 2, 2017	#1
Salaam Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Ottawa, ON Posts: 128	Common questions from the still newbie Hello all, Hope all your gardens are doing well! I've got a couple of questions that I still have after a few years of growing: 1. Pruning - What do you do with the leaves after you remove the suckers? Remove them too? So far in my 'career' I've pruned only a little - just to reduce an unwieldy plant or to remove disease. 2. Fertilizing and mulch - When I've got pine mulch down, as I'll be having this year, it's a bit of a pain removing the mulch and then putting down some granular fertilizer. Should I be using just sprayable fertilizer? If I had plastic mulch, wouldn't this be the only option?