Horticulture

  4-H shooting sports team eyes fall season   Virtual Quiz Bowl highlights summer activities   MANHATTAN, Kan. – Anissa Jepsen had to figure that there was little or...

It’s time to plant the fall garden   Plant thick rows, then thin the plants later, says horticulture expert   MANHATTAN, Kan. – Many home gardeners in Kansas...

Horticulture 2020 Newsletter VEGETABLES Tomato Leaf-Spot Diseases             Two common leaf-spot diseases will likely appear on tomato plants soon if they haven’t already. Septoria leaf spot and...

  From the Office of Public Affairs http://www.news.ku.edu   Headlines   Undergraduate student discovers 18 new species of aquatic beetle in South America LAWRENCE — It would be striking for a...

Horticulture News By: Scott Eckert, Harvey County Extension Agent, Horticulture   Eventually, old trees need to be replaced with new ones.  Newly planted trees take extra attention...

Horticulture News By: Scott Eckert, Harvey County Extension Agent, Horticulture   It doesn’t seem to matter how hard you try, squash bugs always seem to find your...

Sedgwick County agent helping to set up gardeners nationwide for success   WIChITA, Kan. – When Rebecca McMahon saw a newspaper article in March indicating that...

Vegetable gardens are well underway!  There are many vegetables my family grew when I was growing up, including beans.  My mother and grandmother canned...