Horticulture

Last year was a bad year for itch mites.  It looks like 2016 may be bad as well.  These arthropods are responsible for painful...

The fall season can be an excellent time to plant trees. During the spring, soils are cold and may be so wet that low...

Rotating vegetable crops is a standard way of helping prevent disease from being carried over from one year to the next. Rotation means that...

by David Trinklein University of Missouri Division of Plant As the gardening season begins to wane, a plant with crocus-like flowers comes into bloom, seemingly out of nowhere....

Christmas Cactus (Schlumbergera bridgesii) and Thanksgiving Cactus (Schlumbergera truncate) are popular flowering holiday plants. Both are epiphytes native to the jungles of South America....

Sweet potatoes should be harvested no later than the first fall freeze because cold temperatures can damage the sensitive roots. However, you may want...

U.S. Wheat Associates (USW) and the National Association of Wheat Growers (NAWG) welcome the Obama Administration's trade enforcement action against China at the World...

Trees in the landscape add value to your home!  As day and night temperatures begin to drop I am reminded that fall is the...

September is the best month to reseed cool-season lawns such as tall fescue and Kentucky bluegrass. However, you can get by with an early...

The weather this summer has resulted in many peonies catching the "measles" and others getting powdery mildew.  Measles is a disease, also known as...