Horticulture
Itch Mites are Back in Kansas
Last year was a bad year for itch mites. It looks like 2016 may be bad as well. These arthropods are responsible for painful...
Horticulture
Kansas Gardening: Planting Trees in the Fall
The fall season can be an excellent time to plant trees. During the spring, soils are cold and may be so wet that low...
Horticulture
Why Rotate Vegetable Crops
Rotating vegetable crops is a standard way of helping prevent disease from being carried over from one year to the next. Rotation means that...
Horticulture
Autumn Crocus: A Touch of Spring in Fall
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....
Horticulture
Reblooming Christmas and Thanksgiving Cacti
Christmas Cactus (Schlumbergera bridgesii) and Thanksgiving Cactus (Schlumbergera truncate) are popular flowering holiday plants. Both are epiphytes native to the jungles of South America....
Horticulture
Kansas Gardening: Harvesting Sweet Potatoes
Sweet potatoes should be harvested no later than the first fall freeze because cold temperatures can damage the sensitive roots. However, you may want...
Horticulture
Wheat Growers Welcome Trade Enforcement Action on Chinese Market Support Programs
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...
Horticulture
Why trees should be planted in the fall
Trees in the landscape add value to your home! As day and night temperatures begin to drop I am reminded that fall is the...
