Horticulture

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If you have ever seen them when small you have to admit they are kind of cute!  Those little camouflage bags are hard to...

There has been growing interest in straw bale gardening.  What better place to try this than in Kansas where straw is so abundant.  First,...

Euonymus scales look like small white cottony spots on affected euonymus foliage. Leaves eventually turn yellow and die as feeding continues. Males are white...

We are seeing damage on elm (Ulmus spp.) trees caused by the larval stage of the European elm flea weevil (Orchestes alni). Larvae are...

​This time of year we often receive questions about ants crawling on peony buds. The ants are feeding on an exudate from the bud;...

We are starting to see anthracnose on sycamore. Anthracnose is a fungal disease favored by cool, wet weather. Young leaves may wither and turn...

Watch for rust on hollyhock. This is the most common disease on hollyhock and can cause serious injury as leaves are progressively killed through...

Yellow nutsedge is a relatively common problem in lawns, especially in wet years or in lawns with irrigation. Although sedges look much like a...

​Soils are warm enough now that tomatoes can benefit from mulching. Tomatoes prefer even levels of soil moisture and mulches provide such by preventing...