Garden columnist Dan Gill answers readers' questions each week. To send a question, email Gill at [email protected]. My problem is with black stuff on my crape myrtles' leaves and bark. It ...

Garden columnist Dan Gill answers readers' questions each week. To send a question, email Gill at [email protected]. About a year ago, we redid our flowerbeds and added three crape myrtle trees.

My "Tonto" crape myrtles stay covered with aphids and black mildew. I've tried every product available, and none keeps the aphids away for more than two weeks. The trees are close to our house, which ...

Q: I have a small crape myrtle tree with leaves that were constantly wet this year. The ground and plants underneath were always wet. Now that the leaves are gone. I can see the branches are also wet.

Q: Last year my crape myrtles, as well as the plants beneath them, had black sooty mold on their leaves and stems. I suspect it was crape myrtle aphids or scale. I’ve read in your latest book that ...

Aphids are very common in most home gardens and they can be one of the peskiest pests that you can find in your vegetable garden. Aphids have tiny (adults are under a quarter inch), soft pear-shaped ...

LUFKIN, Texas (KTRE) - Adding to our list of non-native pests is a newcomer that attacks crepe myrtles. It is called the Crepe Myrtle Bark Scale (CMBS). The new pest is originally from China, Japan, ...

I see orange crystals on one of my cucumbers. Each crystal is a little larger than a poppy seed. What is this? Other than a few dead leaves, the plants look healthy and produce lots of cucumbers.

Between the last pass of the combine and the first field check of spring, soybean insects such as soybean aphid and bean leaf beetle are quietly positioning themselves for a comeback. What you do in ...