Horticulture Newsletter
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June
- 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
