Horticulture
Adding organic materials directly to the garden
If the severe summer weather has brought an early end to your garden, consider adding organic materials directly to the soil rather than composting....
Horticulture
Good things about Fall!
Fall is a great time for many things! Football, tree leaves turning colors, and planting a cool season turfgrass lawn. Also the fall season...
Horticulture
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
September sedum
September. Time for crisp, cool Fall evenings. Leaves will start to fall soon, though the grass is still green. Pumpkins are on the horizon....
Horticulture
Kansas 4-H partners with Paraguay to revitalize its youth program
By Jordan Hildebrand
For an audio file, visit www.kansaswheat.org.
Yields in Kansas might have increased during the 2015 harvest, but test weights and protein content were...
Horticulture
Pines offer shelter and shade
Driving west out of the Sandhills into the quaint little community of Hay Springs something caught my eye—large ponderosa pines towering above the other...
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
Taking care of tall fescue lawns
By: Scott Eckert, County Extension Agent, Horticulture
Remember that tall fescue is a cool-season grass with most of its growing after September
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