Maintain and Solve Problems

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Keep your outdoor spaces beautiful and edible harvests bountiful. Learn how to identify and solve problems, important monthly gardening tasks, and more from Master Gardeners and gardening experts.

Step 5: Maintain

Check our Monthly Gardening Tips for answers to your questions: What should I plant this month? When do I prune oak trees? Bring my tender plants indoors? Fertilize? Apply pre-emergent? Our timely monthly tips will help schedule everyday tasks to help optimize your gardening time and provide the best results.

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Step 6: Solve Problems

The Garden Help Desk is staffed by DCMGA volunteers who are available to assist you. We get questions about the tiniest mite impacting roses, cutworms clipping off newly transplanted tomatoes, many plant diseases and so much more. Explore the resources and techniques we have collected to help solve your North Texas garden problems or contact us. ​

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