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Horticulture 2013 Newsletter
 
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JUNE
 
  • Video of the Week:  Controlling Bagworms
  • Do Not Over-Fertilize Tomatoes
  • Physiological Leaf Curl in Tomatoes
  • Tomato Leaf-Spot Diseases
  • Onions Developing
  • Rose Rosette
  • Squash Bugs
  • Bean Leaf Beetle
  • What is that Giant Moth?
  • Slime Mold

 
  • Video of the Week:  Succession Planting of Vegetables
  • Upcoming Events
  • Thatch Control in Warm-season Lawns
  • New Potatoes
  • Pinching Mums
  • Fruit Reminders
  • Ash Flower Gall
  • Bristly Rose Slugs
  • Get Ready for Bagworms

 
  • Video of the Week:  Mulching
  • Sidedressing Annual Flowers
  • Be on the Lookout for Peach Leaf Curl and Plum Pocket
  • Butterfly Bush
  • Rust on Hollyhock
  • Excessive Rain Can Cause Yellowing or Death of Plants
  • Velvet Mites
MAY
 
  • Video of the Week:  Spread Fertilizer Evenly on Lawn
  • Time to Fertilize Warm-Season Grasses
  • Too Wet to Mow the Lawn
  • Aphids on Roses
  • Cucumber Beetles and Bacterial Wilt
  • Oak Galls
  • Sawfly Larvae Ash
  • Fireblight
  • Helping Roundup Products Work

 
  • Video of the Week:  Efficient Water Use in the Garden
  • Mulching Tomatoes
  • "Staggering' Sweetcorn Planting
  • Tops of Pine Trees Dying
  • Controlling Yellow Nutsedge in Lawns
  • Control Prostrate Spurge
  • Carpenter Bees
  • Pine Needle Scale
  • Pine Sawfly
  • Video of the Week:  Prairie Plants Hardy for Kansas
  • Plant Annual Flowers by Soil Temperature
  • Fruit Sprays and Spray Water pH
  • Cabbage Worms
  • Sowbugs and Pillbugs
  • Recent Rains Trigger Mushroom Development
  • Moving Houseplants Outside for the Summer

  • Video of the Week:  Maximizing Your Garden Space
  • Upcoming Events
  • Protecting New Vegetable Transplants from the Wind
  • Blackspot of Roses
  • Ash/Lilac Borer
  • Fertilizing Grapes
  • Rabbits in the Garden
 
APRIL
 
  • Video of the Week:  Beautiful Flowers Start with Plants Adapted for Kansas
  • Fruit Tree Sprays and Rain
  • Red Plastic Mulch and Tomatoes
  • Rhubarb Harvest and Seedstalks
  • Sweet Lilacs
  • Asparagus Beetles
  • Termites or Ants

  • Video of the Week:  Selecting Shrubs for Your Home
  • Setting Out Tomato Plants Early
  • Help for New Vegetable Gardeners
  • Growing Blueberries
  • Fertilizing Blueberries
  • Fertilizing Strawberries and Brambles
  • Field Bindweed Control

  • Video of the Week:  Herbs for the Kitchen
  • Horticulture Club  Bedding Plant Sale
  • Henbit and Chickweed in Lawns
  • Orchard Grass in Tall Fescue Lawns
  • Accumulated Stress Taking a Toll on Trees
  • Fruit Bud Damage from Cold Temperatures
  • Checking for Fruit Bud Damage
  • Eliminating Unwanted Fruit From Trees
  • Controlling Grassy Weeds in Broadleaf Plants

 
  • Video of the Week:  Poison Ivy
  • Fertilizing Cole Crops
  • Keep Mower Blades Sharp
  • Transplant Solutions and Sidedressing
  • Use a String Line and Planting Board
  • Poison Ivy Identification and Control

 
  • Video of the Week:  Crabgrass Prevention in Lawns
  • Planting Easter Lilies Outside
  • Let's See Some Blooms
  • Controlling Weeds in Strawberries
  • Fertilizing the Home Orchard
  • Proper Timing for Crabgrass Preventers
  • Seeding Cool-Season Lawns in the Spring
  • What a Difference a Year Makes
 
MARCH
 
  • Video of the Week:  Growing Asparagus
  • Asparagus Time
  • Onions, Cabbage and Broccoli Can be Planted Soon
  • Apple Tree Sprays
  • Pruning Hybrid-Tea Roses
  • Ten Rules for Planting Trees

  • Video of the Week:  Pruning Fruit Trees
  • Planting Fruit Trees
  • Prune Fruit Trees Now
  • Pruning Young Fruit Trees
  • Starting Tomatoes Early
  • Applying Organic Matter in the Spring
  • Laying Plastic Mulch

 
  • Video of the Week:  Making Your Own Seed Tape
  • Fertilizing Perennial Flowers
  • Frost Proof Vegetable Plants
  • Rhubarb
  • Pruning Raspberries and Blackberries
  • Managing Turf in Shade
  • Wild Garlic, Wild Onion and Star-of-Bethlehem

  • Video of the Week:  Strawberries; Removing Straw Mulch
  • Bolting and Buttoning in Cole Crop Plants
  • Time to Plant Potatoes Approaching
  • Strawberry Planting and Mulch Removal
  • An Old-Time Concoction for Mildew Control on Peach
  • Pruning Deciduous Shrubs
  • The Race for Spring is On!
  • Soil Tests When Soils are Wet
 
FEBRUARY
 
  • Video of the Week:  Coldframes and Hotbeds
  • Lawn Calendar for Warm-Season Grasses
  • Correcting Iron Chlorosis in Trees
  • Don't Work Soil Too Wet
  • Coldframes and Hotbeds
  • Heirloom Tomato Study

 

February 19, 2013

  • Video of the Week:  Spring Clean-up of Perennial Beds
  • Tips for Gardeners New to Growing Transplants
  • Lettuce
  • What Fruit Trees to Plant?
  • Iris Leaf Spot Control Starts Now
  • Repotting Houseplants
  • An Easy Way to Propagate Houseplants

 

February 12, 2013

  • Video of the Week:  Butterfly Gardening
  • Fertilizing Spring-flowering Bulbs
  • Flowers for Valentine's Day
  • Lawn Calendar for Cool-season Grasses
  • Soil Testing
  • Butterfly Gardening
  • Call for Local Sources of Vegetable Seed

 

February 5, 2013

  • Video of the Week:  Growing Fruit in a Small Landscape
  • Some Fruit Trees Need Pollinators
  • Dormant Oil Sprays for Fruit Trees
  • Fungus Gnats
  • Check Plants for Scale Insects
  • Leaching Houseplants
 
JANUARY
 

January 29, 2013

  • Video of the Week:  Paperwhite for Winter Fragrance
  • Cloning Apple Trees
  • Collect Scion Wood Now
  • Sources for Tomato Seed
  • Use a Planting Calendar
  • Rabbit Resistant Flowers
  • Plants Recommended for Kansas

 

January 22, 2013

  • Video of the Week:  Vegetables:  Planning Your Priorities
  • Starting Onion Plants Indoors
  • Start Trees Off Right
  • Boxelder Bugs Inside the Home
  • Pecan Blog
  • Bird Feeding
  • Bringing Houseplants Down to Size
  • Growing Your Own Firewood

 

January 15, 2013

  • Video of the Week:  Investing in Soil and Water
  • How Much Can a Vegetable Garden Save in Food Costs?
  • All-America Selection Winners for 2013
  • Now is a Good Time to Design Your Landscape
  • Plants Deer Don't Like
  • Newer Fluorescent Lights Available for Indoor Gardeners

January 8, 2013

  • Video of the week: Easy to Make Grow Light
  • Horticulture 2012 Indexed
  • Starting Plants from Seed
  • Vegetables and Flowers Seeding Table
  • Using Old Garden Seed
  • The Many Faces of Witchhazel
  • Conservation Trees from the Kansas Forest Service


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