Voles are classified as nongame animals and can be controlled in any legal manner. One way is to make the habitat less attractive by removing weeds, heavy mulch, and dense ground cover, which provide food and protection. Others are fencing, trapping, and baiting. Apricots are best pruned during the summer months August is recommended to avoid eutypa, a fungal disease that spreads during rains and infects trees through pruning cuts. If you want to dormant prune, do so in late February or March so that pruning wounds will heal more rapidly.
Spurs become less productive after three to five years.
Therefore, it is important to remove lateral branches to induce formation of new spurs. Yes, in the inland valleys, carrots can be planted from July through February. The variety planted depends on your soil conditions, generally they prefer light soil that is clod-free. Maintain even soil moisture, as alternate dry and wet conditions cause split roots. Little red worms are chewing the leaves on one of the branches of my liquidamber.