Bob Morris

Do you have any thoughts on watering times and durations for lawns, fig trees and palms? What time of day should I set my sprinklers?

Some lawns experienced disease problems that lingered after we had high humidity because of the rain. That change in our weather encouraged plant diseases to occur.

Creating shade that doesn’t use water requires brainwork but may be necessary in the desert. Usually, a home’s hottest areas are the exposed south and west walls and windows.

The Center for Urban Water Conservation in North Las Vegas will host an educational event Oct. 14 for homeowners and HOA members who want to save water on their landscapes.

It’s expensive to have them trimmed twice a year. If their beauty outweighs their expense, keep them. But if you don’t enjoy them anymore, have them removed.

Apples that stay on the tree longest are the most heavily infested by codling moths. Apples harvested early are the least infested. Populations of this pest increase with each generation produced.

Plants originally coming from a desert are watered less often than those that don’t come from deserts. This is because desert plants have methods of surviving a longer time between irrigations.

There are three reasons why sago palms are yellowing: their location, needed soil amendments and improper watering.

The SNWA offers a list of water-smart trees that are supposed to use less water than other types. But they still need to be managed.

Iron shortages in plants are notorious for yellow foliage. Try applying an iron chelate to the soil when growth is first starting.