Horticulture Newsletter
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May
- Video of the Week: Growing Vegetables in Containers
- Time to Fertilize Warm-Season Grasses
- Too Wet to Mow the Lawn
- Remove Blossoms on Newly Planted Strawberries
- Thinning Excess Fruit
- Biting Gnats
- Colorado Potato Beetle
- Walnut wilt
- Helping Roundup Products Work
- How to Make Tomato Cages
- Video of the Week: Stake and Weave Tomatoes
- Flooding and Trees
- Cucumber Beetle and Bacterial Wilt
- Ladybird Beetles
- Lots of Flowers, Lots of Seeds
- Straw Bale Gardening
- Useful Resources: K-State Extension Wildlife Management Web Site
- Video of the Week: Knockout Roses
- Setting out New Vegetable Transplants
- 'Staggering' Sweet Corn Planting
- Be on the Lookout for Peach Leaf Curl and Plum Pocket
- Cabbage Worms
- How to Avoid Getting "Bored" by the Ash/Lilac Borer
- Anthracnose on Sycamores
- Moving Houseplants Outside for the Summer
- Rabbits in the Garden
April
- Video of the Week: Culinary and Medicinal Herbs
- Fertilize Irrigated Cool-Season Lawns in May
- Blackspot of Roses
- Delay Planting Winter Squash and Pumpkins
- Sweet Corn Primer
- Fruit Sprays and Spray Water pH
- My Oaks are Raining Worms
- It's Still too Early to Spray for Bagworms
- Poison Ivy Identification and Control
- Video of the Week: How to Sharpen a Mower Blade
- Keep Mower Blades Sharp
- Orchardgrass in Tall Fescue Lawns
- Fertilizing Cole Crops
- Red Plastic Mulch and Tomatoes
- Rhubarb Harvest and Seedstalks
- Fertilizing Strawberries and Brambles
- Will I have Peaches This Year?
- Termites or Ants?
- Common Asparagus Beetle
- Video of the Week: Butterfly Gardening
- Controlling Wild Violets in Lawns
- Fruit Bud Damage from Cold Temperatures
- Pest Control on Fruit Trees
- Fruit Tree Sprays and Rain
- Controlling Weeds in Strawberries
- Ash/Lilac Borer
- Mole Control
- Butterfly Gardening
- Video of the Week: Planting a Garden
- Henbit and Chickweed in Lawns
- Fertilizing Grapes
- Fertilizing the Home Orchard
- Blanching Cauliflower
- Help for New Vegetable Gardeners
- There Never Used to be Fruit on Ornamental Pears
- Controlling Grassy Weeds in Broadleaf Plants
- Video of the Week: Lawnmower Maintenance
- Transplanting Tomatoes Early
- How Low Should You Go?
- Controlling Grass Sandbur
- Brown Coloration of Junipers
- Laying Plastic Mulch
- Organic Sources of Nitrogen Fertilizer
- Transplant Solutions and Sidedressing
- Wild Garlic, Wild Onion and Star-of-Bethlehem
- Editor's Note
March
- Video of the Week: Crabgrass Preventer in Lawns
- Proper Timing for Crabgrass Preventer
- Strawberry Planting
- Apple Tree Sprays
- Asparagus Time
- Frost Proof Vegetable Plants
- Growing Large Onions
- Compost pH
- Video of the Week: How to Plant a Tree
- Mushroom Cultivation Workshop - March 21
- Controlling Weeds in Home Garden Asparagus Beds
- Remove Fern and Fertilize Asparagus
- Frost Tolerance of Apricots and Peaches
- Why Seeding Cool-Season Grasses in the Spring is Difficult
- Managing Turf in Shade
- Ten Rules for Planting Trees
- Mushroom Cultivation Workshop - March 21
- Video of the Week: Fertilizing the Garden
- Time to Plant Potatoes Approaching
- Bolting and Buttoning in Cole Crop Plants
- Use Wide Rows for Certain Vegetables
- Rhubarb
- Iris Leaf Spot Control Starts Now
- Establishing a Wildflower Area
- Rose Rosette Disease
- Cut Back Ornamental Grasses
- Don't Work Wet Soil
- Mushroom Cultivation Workshop - March 21
- Video of the Week: Tips for Growing Blueberries in Kansas
- Blueberries in Containers
- It's Not too Late for Dormant Overseeding of Turfgrass
- Why Seeding Cool-Season Grasses in the Spring is Difficult
- Lawn Calendar for Buffalograss
- Establishing a Wildflower Area
February
- Video of the Week: Easy to Grow Peas
- Cure the Itch by Planting Peas
- Lettuce
- Soil Temperature and Vegetables
- Pruning Deciduous Shrubs
- Forcing Stems of Woody Plants for Indoor Bloom
- An Easy Way to Propagate Houseplants
- Leaching Houseplants
- Video of the Week: Growing Asparagus
- Lawn Calendar for Cool-Season Grasses
- Planting Asparagus
- Fertilizing Spring-flowering Bulbs
- Gardening Calendar
- Soil Testing
- Soil Tests When Soils are Wet
- What a Soil Test Does Not Tell You
- Video of the Week: Pruning Fruit Trees
- Approaching Time for Peach Leaf Curl Control
- Pruning Fruit Trees
- Pruning Overgrown Apple Trees
- Pruning Young Fruit Trees
- Check Plants for Scale Insects
- Handling Tips for Valentine's Day Roses
- Video of the Week: 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
January
- Video of the Week: Flower Bed Design
- Cloning Apple Trees
- Multiple Grafts on Apple Trees
- Preventing Potatoes from Sprouting in Storage
- Growing Your Own Firewood
- Use a Planting Calendar
- Video of the Week: Attracting Birds to your Backyard
- Start Trees Off Right
- Pawpaw Trees: A Native Fruit
- Dutch Elm Disease Resistant American Elms
- Fruit Trees and Frost
- Bird Feeding
- Video of the Week: How to Make a Growing Light
- Caddo Sugar Maples
- Conservation Trees from the Kansas Forest Service
- How to Tell Poison Ivy and Virginia Creeper Apart in the Winter
- Newer Lights Available for Indoor Gardeners
- All-America Selection Winners for 2019
- Video of the Week: Paperwhite Narcissus
- Horticulture 2018 Indexed
- Forcing Paperwhite Bulbs
- Starting Onion Plants Indoors
- Starting Garden Transplants from Seed
- Using Old Garden Seed
