This episode discusses how to get Bosc pears to produce more fruit when a pollenizer tree is not close by. Bob Morris also talks about knowing when to irrigate fruit trees using the “old farmer technique” and as well as using new technology like soil moisture sensors and a piece of rebar. Everybody knows that water softeners are the bane of landscape plants if you’re not careful. Learn some techniques that might save some landscape plants from dreadful water “softenitis”. Lastly, lemon bottlebrush sometimes has yellow leaves and it’s not because it’s a lemon bottlebrush. Learn how to correct this problem and what causes it. All this on Desert Horticulture.