Horticulture
Kansas Gardening: Time to start seeding cool-season crops indoors
A few abnormally warm winter days might have gardeners thinking ahead for next spring’s planting. Planning now isn’t premature, however, because most cool-season crops...
Horticulture
Check Plants for Scale Insects
The dormant season is a good time to check woody plants for scale insect infestations. This time of year, deciduous plants do not have...
Horticulture
Almost Time for Peach Leaf Curl Control
If you have ever seen emerging peach leaves that are puckered, swollen, distorted and reddish-green color, you have seen peach leaf curl. Uncontrolled, this...
Horticulture
Caring for Miniature Roses
Miniature roses are dwarf versions of roses including the classic hybrid teas. Though they are much smaller (12 to 15 inches tall or less),...
Horticulture
New Bee Genebank To Provide Breeding Resources
By Kim Kaplan
Photo credit: Tony Alter
The Agricultural Research Service (ARS) is organizing a national bee genebank as part of the agency's response to ongoing...
Horticulture
Use a Vegetable Planting Calendar in Kansas
If you start vegetable plants indoors, it is often helpful to list seeding dates on a calendar so that plants are ready for transplanting...
Horticulture
Plants Recommended for Kansas
If you have had trouble finding a listing of plants recommended for Kansas, visit our web page devoted to this topic. We have links...
Horticulture
Trees for 2016 and Beyond
Nebraska is unique, lying at sort of a biological crossroads between the southern and northern plains, eastern deciduous forest and western Rocky Mountain species....
