Horticulture
Tomato Variety Trials
Each year we have our Master Gardeners plant and rate a number of tomato varieties. We also give a set to Tom Fowler with...
Horticulture
Use a Vegetable Garden Planting Calendar
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
Preventing Potatoes from Sprouting in Storage
Home gardeners have had to rely on proper storage conditions (cool and moist) to prevent potatoes from sprouting. But sprouting will eventually occur even...
Home Economics
Sell by? Use by? What’s a shopper to do? Sorting through the meaning of food date labels.
People are getting savvy about checking food labels for fat, calories and fiber, but labels such as “sell by” and “use by” can leave...
Horticulture
February Gardening Calendar
Weeks 1-4: To avoid injury to lawns, keep foot traffic to a minimum when soils are wet or frozen.
Weeks 1-4: When sowing...
Horticulture
February Fruit and Vegtable Gardening Calendar
Vegetables
Weeks 1-4: Season extending devices such as cold frames, hot beds, cloches and floating row covers will allow for an early start to...
Horticulture
February Ornamentals Gardening Calendar
Weeks 1-4: Winter aconite (Eranthis sp.) and snowdrops (Galanthus sp.) are hardy bulbs for shady gardens that frequently push up through snow to...
Horticulture
More to mushrooms than morels
Although many in Missouri think about mushrooms when the morels are at their peak in April, people who grow mushrooms at home or commercially...
