Horticulture Newsletter
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December
- Video of the Week: Basic Care of Houseplants
- Using Old Garden Seed
- Mouse Damage to Fruit Trees/Plants
- Controlling Volunteer Trees
- Monitor Indoor Plant Temperatures
- Conservation Trees from the Kansas Forest Service
November
- Video of the Week: Succulent Plants for Your Home
- Dormant Seeding of Turfgrass
- What is the “Wild” Shrub with the Bright Red Berries?
- Compost Pile Maintenance
- Poor Drainage in Garden Areas
- Video of the Week: Choosing the Best Poinsettia
- Winterizing Strawberry Plants
- Poinsettia Care
- Are Poinsettias Poisonous?
- Ashes in the Garden
- Storing Power Equipment for the Winter
- Why Do Houseplants Lose Leaves After Being Brought Inside?
- Research Reports Available from the K-State Olathe Horticulture Center
- Video of the Week: Protecting Roses for Winter
- Water Landscape Plants Before Winter
- Natural Needle Drop on Spruce, Arborvitae and Pines
- Winterizing Roses
- Amaryllis Culture
- High pH Soils and What to Do With Them
- Iron Chlorosis and Calcareous Soils
- Garden Soil Preparation — It’s Not Too Late
- Sharp Drop in Temperature Again This Year be a Cause for Concern for Trees
- Video of the Week: Cleaning Up Your Garden for the Fall
- Horseradish
- Soil Prep Now for Peas Next Spring
- Knotweed Control
- Keep Compost Pile Moist
- Begin Rabbit Protection Now
- Garden Hoes
October
- Video of the Week: Will Fall Mums Last Through the Winter?
- Apply Late-Season Nitrogen Application in November
- Garden Mums
- What to Do with Tree Leaves
- Draining Hoses and Irrigation Lines
- Roasting Pumpkin Seeds
- Video of the Week: Cleaning Extends the Life of Garden Tools
- Fall Colors of Trees
- There is Still Time to Plant Spring-Flowering Bulbs
- Perennial Garden Clean-up
- Preserving Garden Tools
- Caring for Houseplants During the Winter Months
- 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
- Guide to Planting Natives in Northeast Kansas
- Video of the Week: How to Test Your Soil for Nutrients
- 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
- Harvesting and Curing Black Walnut
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
- Whiteflies on Vegetables and Ornamental Plants
- Video of the Week: Garlic, Easy to Grow
- Garlic Planting Time
- Fall 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
- Adding Organic Materials Directly to the Garden
- Reblooming Poinsettias
- Planting Trees in the Fall
- Moving Houseplants Inside for the Winter
- Video of the Week: Cuttings to Grow Inside for the Winter
- Lawn Seeding Best Done in September
- Harvesting Sweet Potatoes
- Hard Core in Tomatoes
- Rotation of Vegetable Crops
- Ornamental Sweet Potatoes
- How to Water Trees
- Garden Spiders
- Video of the Week: Overseeding Your Lawn
- Asparagus and Rhubarb in the Autumn Season
- Harvesting and Roasting Sunflower Seed
- Fertilize Strawberries
- Reblooming Christmas and Thanksgiving Cacti
- Using Compost
- Mycosphaerella Leaf Spot on Ash
- Mimosa Webworm on Honeylocust
- Tree ID
August
- 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
- Composting Tips
- Leaf Spot on Lilac
- Cicada Killer...Not the Asian Giant Hornet
- Video of the Week: Dividing Daylilies
- Insecticde Active Ingredients Registered for Use Against Bagworms - 2020
- For Seeding Success, Pay Attention to "Other Crop" on the Seed Label
- Are Crabapples Safe to Eat?
- Dividing Daylilies
- Spring Flowering Shrubs
- Oak Lace Bug
- 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
- When Are Apples Ready to Pick?
- Harvesting Winter Squash
- Twig Dieback on Oaks
- Composting: Choosing a Bin
- Video of the Week: Composting: Making Black Gold
- Still Time for a Salad Garden
- Plants for Late Season Bloom
- Composting: The Science
- Tubakia Leaf Spot of Oaks
- Peonies with the "Measles" and Powdery Mildew
July
- Video of the Week: Spider Mites on Tomatoes
- Watering Newly Planted Trees and Shrubs
- Watering Fruit Plants During the Summer
- Inexpensive Method of Watering Trees
- Crabgrass Control
- Wood Chips As Mulch
- Cicada Killer Wasps
- Video of the Week: Dividing Iris
- What is Wrong with My Trees
- Tomatoes Slow to Ripen?
- Heat Stops Tomatoes from Setting Fruit
- When to Harvest Grapes
- Pine Needle Scale Control Window Approaching
- Euonymus Scale
- Dividing Iris
- Video of the Week: When to Pick Tomatoes
- Tomato Cracking
- When to Pick a Ripe Melon
- Green June Beetle
- Netting Grapes
- Raspberries and Blackberries After Harvest
- Tan or White Drupelets on Blackberry and Raspberry Fruit
- 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 II
- Tomato Leaf-Spot Diseases
- Harvesting Garlic
- Vegetables Produce Flowers But No Fruit
- Bermudagrass Control
- Brown Patch on Tall Fescue
- Ash Flower Gall
- Japanese Beetles
- Walnut Caterpillars
- Video of the Week: Harvesting and Storing Onions
- Pulling Onions
- Squash Vine Borer
- Raccoons and Sweet Corn
- Sweet Corn Earworm
- When to Pick Blackberries
- Dutch Elm Disease
- Woolly Aphids on Maple
- Video of the Week: Common Plant Problems; Part 1
- Hornworms on Tomatoes
- Squash Bugs
- Physiological Leaf Curl in Tomatoes
- Grub Control in Lawns
- Controlling Yellow Nutsedge in Lawns
- Fundamentals of Using Soaps as Insecticides
- Video of the Week: Buffalograss: Fertilizing and Mowing
- Fruit Reminders
- Do Not Over-Fertilize Tomatoes
- New Potatoes
- How Healthy is My Tree?
- Aphids on Daylilies
- Slime Mold
- Video of the Week: How to Grow Big Bushy Mums
- K-State Garden Hour Webinar Series: Taking Care of Tomatoes
- Brown Rot of Stone Fruits
- Deadheading Flowers
- Rust on Hollyhock
- Pinching Mums
- Sidedressing Annual Flowers
- Thatch Control in Warm-Season Lawns
- Get Ready…Get Set…Go…Get Those Bagworms!
- 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
- K-State Garden Hour Webinar Series: Taking Care of Tomatoes
- Onions Developing
- Mulching tomatoes
- ‘Tip' Blackberries, Black Raspberries and Purple Raspberries
- Spring-Flowering Bulb Foliage can be Removed
- Plants Slow to Leaf Out
- Anthracnose on Sycamore, Maple and other Shade Trees
- Sawfly Larvae on Ash
- 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
- New K-State Garden Hour Webinar Series
- How to Make Tomato Cages
- Walnut Wilt
- Colorado Potato Beetle
- Remove Blossoms from Newly Planted Strawberries
- Thinning Excess Fruit
- Too Wet to Mow the Lawn
- Time to Fertilize Warm-Season Grasses
- European Elm Flea Weevil
- Three Steps to Choosing Potting Media for Outdoor Use: Part 1
- Helping Roundup (Glyphosate) Products Work Better
- Video of the Week: Stake & Weave Tomatoes
- Cabbage Worms
- 'Staggering' Sweet Corn Planting
- ‘Tip' Blackberries, Black Raspberries and Purple Raspberries
- 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 in Gardens
- 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
- Praying Mantid Egg Cases
- Fruit Sprays and Spray Water pH
- Bagworms, It's Still Too Early to Spray
- Poison Ivy Identification and Control
- Eastern Tent Caterpillar
- Blackspot of Roses
- Video of the Week: How to Sharpen a Mower Blade
- Orchard Grass in Tall Fescue Lawns
- Keep Mower Blades Sharp
- Fertilizing Strawberries and Brambles
- Controlling Weeds in Strawberries
- Asparagus Beetles
- Rhubarb Harvest and Seedstalks
- Fertilizing Cole Crops
- Red Plastic Mulch and Tomatoes
- Pine Tortoise Scale
- Termites or Ants
- Video of the Week: Butterfly Gardens
- Controlling Wild Violets in Lawns
- Pest Control on Fruit Trees
- Fruit Tree Sprays and Rain
- Fruit Bud Damage from Cold Temperatures
- Controlling Weeds in Strawberries
- Ash/Lilac Borer
- Nantucket Pine Tip Moth
- Butterfly Gardens
- Mole Control
- Video of the Week: Planting a Garden
- Henbit and Chickweed in Lawns
- Fertilizing Grapes
- Fertilizing the Home Orchard
- Blanching Cauliflower
- There Never used to be Fruit on Ornamental Pears
- Controlling Grassy Weeds in Broadleaf Plants
- "Bugs" that Eat Toilet Paper
March
- Video of the Week: Lawnmower Maintenance
- 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
- Breaking the Pine Wilt Cycle
- Compost pH
- Video of the Week: How to Plant a Tree
- Controlling Weeds in Home Garden Asparagus Beds
- Remove Fern on Asparagus
- 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
- Bolting and Buttoning in Cole Crop Plants
- Rhubarb
- Time to Plant Potatoes Approaching
- Use Wide Rows for Certain Vegetables
- Cut Back Ornamental Grasses
- Iris Leaf Spot Control Starts Now
- Don't Work Wet Soil
- Video of the Week: Tips for Growing Blueberries in Kansas
- 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
- Growing Blueberries
- Blueberries in Containers
- Establishing a Wildflower Area
February
- Video of the Week: Easy to Grow Peas
- Cure the Itch by Planting Peas
- Lettuce
- Soil Temperature and Vegetables
- Forcing Stems of Woody Plants for Indoor Bloom
- Pruning Deciduous Shrubs
- 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 Tests When Soils are Wet
- What a Soil Test Does Not Tell You
- Fertilizing Spring-flowering Bulbs
- Gardening Calendar
- 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
- Video of the Week: Flower Bed Design
- K-State Industrial Hemp Conference
- Preventing Potatoes from Sprouting in Storage
- Cloning Apple Trees
- Multiple Grafts on Apple Trees
- Collect Scion Wood Now
- Growing Your Own Firewood
- Using a Planting Calendar
- Video of the Week: Attracting Birds to Your Backyard
- K-State Industrial Hemp Conference
- Fruit Trees and Frost
- Dutch Elm Disease Resistant American Elms
- Start Trees Off Right
- Pawpaw Trees
- Bird Feeding
- Now is a Good Time to Design Your Landscape
- Video of the Week: How to Make a Grow Light
- Caddo Sugar Maple
- How to Tell Poison Ivy and Virginia Creeper Apart in the Winter
- Conservation Trees from the Kansas Forest Service
- Newer Lights Available for Indoor Gardeners
- All-America Selection Winners for 2020
- 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
