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Puget Sound Region
In-depth profiles, disease diagnostics, spray windows, and care schedules calibrated to this climate, this soil, and this growing season.
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The underground fungal economy that determines how trees thrive: how mycorrhizal partnerships work, what common landscape practices destroy them, and why the most effective management strategy is a list of things to stop doing.
Identify the three slug species that matter in the Puget Sound lowlands, understand why national advice fails here, and build a seasonal management plan anchored by fall baiting and iron phosphate.
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How to read fire blight infection risk during bloom using the CougarBlight model, when to apply Bacillus subtilis, and how to respond to shoot blight with proper pruning technique.
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Your Puget Sound soil is already acidic, and most of the time that is exactly right. Learn when pH actually needs changing, which amendments work on which soil types, and how to stop chasing a number.
Read more →Seasonal scouting notes, spray timing updates, and the regional detail that national guides leave out. Written for Western Washington gardeners and landscape professionals.
Seasonal scouting notes, timing updates, and the regional detail that national guides leave out. Delivered when it matters.
Species selection, siting, and care for this climate.
Identification, timing, and management grounded in regional extension data.
Scouting, thresholds, and IPM for the pests that actually matter here.
A growing dataset of plants, diseases, and pests tracked for this region. Profiles deepen continuously as site data, phenology, GDD timing, and cultivar performance are verified from extension research and field observation.
Written by Chris Welch. Every recommendation on this site comes from someone who works with these plants in this climate, not a content team repackaging national data.
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