Horticulture Newsletter
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May
May 24, 2022
- 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
- Flooding Damage
- Three Steps to Choosing Potting Media for Outdoor Use: Part 2
- Sidedressing Chart Available
- Little Barley in Lawns
May 17, 2022
- Video of the Week: Growing Vegetables in Containers
- Walnut Wilt
- Colorado Potato Beetle
- Remove Blossoms on Newly Planted Strawberries
- Thinning Excess Fruit
- Three Steps to Choosing Potting Media for Outdoor Use: Part 1
- Helping Roundup (Glyphosate) Products Be More Effective
- Time to Fertilize Warm-Season Grasses
May 10, 2022
- Video of the Week: Stake and Weave Tomatoes
- Cabbage Worms
- 'Staggering' Sweet Corn Planting
- How to Make Tomato Cages
- Be on the Lookout for Peach Leaf Curl and Plum Pocket
- Rabbits in the Garden
- Moving Houseplants Outside for the Summer
May 3, 2022
- 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
- Eastern Tent Caterpillar
- Ants and Peonies
- Ladybird Beetles
- Useful Resource: K-State Extension Wildlife Management Web Site
April
April 26, 2022
- 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
April 19, 2022
- 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
- First Generation Nantucket Pine Tip Moth
- Termites or Ants
April 12, 2022
- 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
- Clover Mites
April 5, 2022
- Video of the Week: Planting a Garden
- Henbit and Chickweed in Lawns
- Fertilizing the Home Orchard
- Fertilizing Grapes
- Blanching Cauliflower
- Controlling Grassy Weeds in Broadleaf Plants
- There Never Used to be Fruit on Ornamental Pears
- Planting Easter Lilies Outside
March
March 29, 2022
- Video of the Week: Lawnmower Maintenance
- Growing Vegetables Vertically
- Transplanting Tomatoes Early
- How Low Should You Go
- Controlling Grassy Sandbur
- Wild Garlic, Wild Onion and Star-of-Bethlehem
- Don’t Work Soil Too Wet
- Laying Plastic Mulch
- Organic Sources of Nitrogen Fertilizers
- Transplant Solutions and Sidedressing
March 22, 2022
- 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
March 15, 2022
- 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
March 8, 2022
- Video of 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
March 1, 2022
- 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
February 22, 2022
- 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
- Preventing Weeds in Flower Beds
February 15, 2022
- 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
February 8, 2022
- 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
February 1, 2022
- Video of the Week: Pothos and Philodendron: Easy Care Plants
- The Difference Among Determinate, Semi-Determinate and Indeterminate Tomatoes
- Fungus Gnats
- Bringing Houseplants Down to Size
- Plants Recommended for Kansas
- Poisonous Plants
- Coldframes and Hotbeds
January 25, 2022
- Video of the Week: Flower Bed Design
- Saving Vegetable Seeds from Crops Grown This Year
- Preventing Potatoes from Sprouting in Storage
- Collect Scion Wood Now
- Cloning Apple Trees
- Multiple Grafts on Apple Trees
- Growing Your Own Firewood
- Use a Planting Calendar
January 18, 2022
- 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
- Fertilizing Houseplants Throughout the Year
January 11, 2022
- Video of the Week: Easy to Make Grow Light
- Winter Watering of Landscapes
- How to Tell Poison Ivy and Virginia Creeper Apart in the Winter
- Pecan Blog
- Conservation Trees from the Kansas Forest Service
January 4, 2022
- Video of the Week: Paperwhite Narcissus
- Horticulture 2021 Indexed
- Forcing Paperwhite Bulbs
- Using Old Garden Seed
- Starting Garden Transplants from Seed
- Starting Onion Plants Indoors
