Horticulture Newsletter
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October
- Video of the Week: Cleaning Extends the Life of Garden Tools
- There is Still Time to Plant Spring-Flowering Bulbs
- Perennial Garden Clean-up
- Fall Colors of Trees
- Caring for Houseplants During the Winter Months
- Preserving Garden Tools
- Harvesting and Curing Black Walnut
- Video of the Week: : Storing Tender Bulbs for the Winter
- Control Broadleaf Weeds in Lawns in Late October - Early November
- Why Late Lawn Seedings Often Fail
- Tucking Your Lawnmower in for the Winter
- Hardiness of Cool-Season Vegetables
- Keeping Your Pumpkin Longer
- Winter Storage of Summer Bulbs
- Video of the Week: How to Test Your Soil for Nutrients
- Atlas Cedars Suffering Dieback in South-Central Kansas
- Pruning Trees and Shrubs in the Fall
- Is It a Maple or an Oak?
- Clean up Iris Beds this Fall
- Fall is a Good Time for Soil Testing
- Seed Stratification for Trees
September
- Video of the Week: Storing and Preserving Peppers
- Fall Planting of Asparagus & Rhubarb
- Last Tomatoes of the Season
- Peppers from the Garden
- Should You Let Turf Grow Tall in the Fall
- Amending Soils with Sand
- Work Garden Soil in the Fall
- Video of the Week: Garlic, Easy to Grow
- Garlic Planting Time
- Fruit Planting Preparation
- Amaryllis, Bringing it Back In
- Yellow Jacket Wasps
- Preventing Sunscald on Thin-Barked Trees
- Questions on Ornamental Grasses
- Video of the Week: Planting Bulbs for Spring Color
- Time to Plant Spring-flowering Bulbs Approaching
- Adding Organic Materials Directly to the Garden
- Reblooming Poinsettias
- Planting Trees in the Fall
- Moving Houseplants Inside for the Winter
- Root Cellars
- Video of the Week: Cuttings to Grow Inside for the Winter
- Lawn Seeding Best Done in September
- Harvesting Sweet Potatoes
- Rotation of Vegetable Crops
- How to Water Trees
- Ornamental Sweet Potatoes
- Garden Spiders
August
- Video of the Week: Overseeding Your Lawn
- Asparagus and Rhubarb in the Autumn Season
- Harvesting and Roasting Sunflower Seed
- Reblooming Christmas and Thanksgiving Cacti
- Using Compost
- Mycosphaerella Leaf Spot on Ash
- Tree ID
- Video of the Week: Fertilize for a Healthy Lawn
- Fall Lawn Seeding Tips
- Overseeding a Lawn
- Give Cool-Season Grasses a Boost
- Power Raking and Core-Aeration
- Dividing Peonies
- Preparing the Vegetable Garden for Next Year
- Fall Webworm
- Composting Tips
- Video of the Week: Dividing Daylilies
- Oak Lace Bug
- Fall Armyworms on Turf
- For Seeding Success, Pay Attention to "Other Crop" on the Seed Label
- Are Crabapples Safe to Eat?
- Dividing Daylilies
- Spring Flowering Shrubs
- Composting: What to Add
- Video of the Week: High Quality Grass Seed: Worth the Extra Expense
- Kentucky Bluegrass Variety Selection for Cool-Season Lawns
- Recommended Tall Fescue Cultivars
- Pear Harvest
- Harvesting Winter Squash
- Twig Dieback on Oaks
- Velvet Ants
- Composting: Choosing a Bin
- Video of the Week: Composting: Making Black Gold
- Still Time for a Salad Garden
- When Are Apples Ready to Pick?
- Fertilize Strawberries
- Mimosa Webworm on Honeylocust
- Plants for Late Season Bloom
- Composting: The Science
- Tubakia Leaf Spot of Oaks
July
- Video of the Week: Spider Mites on Tomatoes
- Watering Newly Planted Trees and Shrubs
- Watering Fruit Plants During the Summer
- Crabgrass Control
- Leaf Spot on Lilac
- Wood Chips As Mulch
- Cicada Killer Wasps
- Video of the Week: Dividing Iris
- Pine Needle Scale Control Window Approaching
- When to Harvest Grapes
- Prop Up Fruit Tree Limbs if Needed
- Dividing Iris
- Peonies with the "Measles" and Powdery Mildew
- Video of the Week: When to Pick Tomatoes
- Tomato Cracking
- How to Pick a Ripe Melon
- Netting Grapes
- Green June Beetle
- Raspberries and Blackberries After Harvest
- Tan or White Drupelets on Blackberry and Raspberry Fruit
- Whiteflies
- Spider Mites
- Video of the Week: Efficient Water Use in the Garden
- Fall Gardening
- Weird Squash, Cucumbers or Melons
- Blister Beetles
- Remove Suckers and Watersprouts on Fruit Trees
- Budworms on Garden Plants
June
- Video of the Week: Common Tomato Problems: Part 2
- Harvesting Garlic
- Tomato Leaf-Spot Diseases
- Vegetables Produce Flowers But No Fruit
- Brown Patch on Tall Fescue
- Bermudagrass Control
- Japanese Beetles
- Walnut Caterpillars
- Video of the Week: Harvesting and Storing Onions
- Pulling Onions
- Squash Vine Borer
- Raccoons and Sweet Corn
- Sweet Corn Earworm
- Why Tomatoes Don’t Set Fruit During Hot Weather
- When to Pick Blackberries
- Aphids on Daylilies
- Dutch Elm Disease (DED)
- Video of the Week: Common Tomato Problems: Part 1
- Look for Bagworms Now
- Physiological Leaf Curl in Tomatoes
- Hornworms on Tomatoes
- Squash Bugs
- Controlling Yellow Nutsedge in Lawns
- Grub Control in Lawns
- Fundamentals of Using Soaps as Insecticides
- Video of the Week: Buffalograss: Fertilizing and Mowing
- New Potatoes
- Do Not Over-Fertilize Tomatoes
- Fruit Reminders
- Rust on Hollyhock
- How Healthy is My Tree?
- Slime Molds
- After-Effects of Too Much Rain
- Inexpensive Method of Watering Trees
- Video of the Week: How to Grow Big, Bushy Mums
- Bristly Rose Slug
- Deadheading Flowers
- Rust on Hollyhock
- Pinching Mums
- Sidedressing Annual Flowers
- Thatch Control in Warm-Season Lawns
- Recent Rains Trigger Mushroom Development
- Three Steps to Choosing Potting Media for Outdoor Use: Part 3
May
- Video of the Week: When to Fertilize Your Lawn
- Onions Developing
- Mulching Tomatoes
- ‘Tip' Blackberries, Black Raspberries and Purple Raspberries
- Spring-Flowering Bulb Foliage can be Removed
- Trees Slow to Leaf Out
- Anthracnose on Sycamore, Maple and other Shade Trees
- Three Steps to Choosing Potting Media for Outdoor Use: Part 2
- Sidedressing Chart Available
- Little Barley in Lawns
- Video of the Week: Growing Vegetables in Containers
- Walnut Wilt
- Colorado Potato Beetle
- Remove Blossoms on Newly Planted Strawberries
- Thinning Excess Fruit
- Too Wet to Mow the Lawn
- Three Steps to Choosing Potting Media for Outdoor Use: Part 1
- Helping Roundup (Glyphosate) Products Work Better
- Video of the Week: Stake and Weave Tomatoes
- Cabbage Worms
- 'Staggering' Sweet Corn Planting
- Making Tomato Cages
- Be on the Lookout for Peach Leaf Curl and Plum Pocket
- Rabbits in the Garden
- Moving Houseplants Outside for the Summer
- Video of the Week: Knock Out Roses
- Protecting New Vegetable Transplants from the Wind
- Straw Bale Gardening
- Storm Damage and the Garden
- Cucumber Beetles and Bacterial Wilt
- Ants and Peonies
- Ladybird Beetles
- Useful Resource: K-State Extension Wildlife Management Web Site
April
- Video of the Week: Culinary and Medicinal Herbs
- Fertilize Irrigated Cool-Season Lawns in May
- Sweet Corn Primer
- Delay Planting Winter Squash and Pumpkins
- Fruit Sprays and Spray Water pH
- Bagworms, It's Still Too Early to Spray
- Poison Ivy Identification and Control
- Blackspot of Roses
- Video of the Week: How to Sharpen a Mower Blade
- Keep Mower Blades Sharp
- Orchardgrass in Tall Fescue Lawns
- Fertilizing Strawberries and Brambles
- Asparagus Beetles
- Rhubarb Harvest and Seedstalks
- Fertilizing Cole Crops
- Red Plastic Mulch and Tomatoes
- Eastern Tent Caterpillar
- Video of the Week: Butterfly Gardens
- Pest Control on Fruit Trees
- Fruit Tree Sprays and Rain
- Controlling Weeds in Strawberries
- Ash/Lilac Borer
- Mole Control
- Controlling Wild Violets in Lawns
- Butterfly Gardening
- Video of the Week: Planting a Garden
- Henbit and Chickweed in Lawns
- Fertilizing Grapes
- Fertilzing the Home Orchard
- Blanching Cauliflower
- There Never Used to be Fruit on Ornamental Pears
- Planting Easter Lilies Outside
- Controlling Grassy Weeds in Broadleaf Plants
March
- Video of the Week: Lawnmower Maintenance
- Growing Vegetables Vertically
- Transplanting Tomatoes Early
- How Low Should You Go
- Controlling Grassy Sandbur
- Laying Plastic Mulch
- Organic Sources of Nitrogen Fertilizers
- Transplant Solutions and Sidedressing
- Wild Garlic, Wild Onion and Star-of-Bethlehem
- Video of the Week: Crabgrass Prevention in Lawns
- Proper Timing for Crabgrass Preventers
- Apple Tree Sprays
- Strawberry Planting
- Asparagus Time
- Frost Proof Vegetable Plants
- Growing Large Onions
- Compost pH
- Video of the Week: How to Plant a Tree
- Remove Fern on Asparagus
- Controlling Weeds in Home Garden Asparagus Beds
- Help for Vegetable Gardeners
- Brown Coloration on Junipers
- Ten Rules for Planting Trees
- Frost Tolerance of Apricots and Peaches
- Managing Turf in Shade
- Video of the Week: Fertilizing the Garden
- Rhubarb
- Time to Plant Potatoes Approaching
- Bolting and Buttoning in Cole Crop Plants
- Use Wide Rows for Certain Vegetables
- Cut Back Ornamental Grasses
- Pruning Raspberries and Blackberries
- Don’t Work Wet Soil
- Video of the Week: Building a Raised Bed for Gardens
- Why Seeding Cool-Season Grasses in the Spring is Difficult
- Lawn Calendar for Warm-Season Grasses
- Lawn Calendar for Buffalograss
- It's Not Too Late for Dormant Overseeding of Turfgrass
- Ash Flower Gall
- Use a String Line and Planting Board
- Establishing a Wildflower Area
February
- Video of the Week: Easy to Grow Peas
- Cure the Itch by Planting Peas
- Lettuce
- Soil Temperature and Vegetables
- Leaching Houseplants
- An Easy Way to Propagate House Plants
- Iris Leaf Spot Control Starts Now
- Pruning Deciduous Shrubs
- Did the Extreme Cold Hurt Next Year’s Fruit Crop?
- Video of the Week: Growing Asparagus
- Lawn Calendar for Cool-Season Grasses
- Planting Asparagus
- Fertilizing Spring-flowering Bulbs
- Soil Testing
- Soil Tests When Soils are Wet
- Gardening Calendar
- What a Soil Test Does Not Tell You
- Video of the Week: Pruning Fruit Trees
- Handling Tips for Valentine's Day Roses
- A Newer Bush Cherry
- Approaching Time for Peach Leaf Curl Control
- Pruning Fruit Trees
- Pruning Overgrown Apple Trees
- Pruning Young Fruit Trees
- Check Plants for Scale Insects
- Video of the Week:Pothos and Philodendron: Easy Care Plants
- The Difference Among Determinate, Semi-Determinate and Indeterminate Tomatoes
- Tomato Trials
- Fungus Gnats
- Bringing Houseplants Down to Size
- Plants Recommended for Kansas
- Poisonous Plants
- Coldframes and Hotbeds
January
- Video of the Week: Flower Bed Design
- Preventing Potatoes from Sprouting in Storage
- Saving Vegetable Seeds
- Cloning Apple Trees
- Multiple Grafts on Apple Trees
- Collect Scion Wood Now
- Growing Your Own Firewood
- Use a Planting Calendar
- Video of the Week: Attracting Birds to Your Backyard
- Pawpaw Trees: A Native Fruit
- Fruit Trees and Frost
- Dutch Elm Disease Resistant American Elms
- Start Trees Off Right
- Now is a Good Time to Design Your Landscape
- Bird Feeding
- Video of the Week: How to Make a Grow Light
- Caddo Sugar Maples
- All-America Selection Winners for 2021
- How to Tell Poison Ivy and Virginia Creeper Apart in the Winter
- Pecan Blog
- Conservation Trees from the Kansas Forest Service
- Video of the Week: Paperwhite Narcissus
- Horticulture 2020 Indexed
- Forcing Paperwhite Bulbs
- Using Old Garden Seed
- Starting Garden Transplants from Seed
- Starting Onion Plants Indoors
