Horticulture News

Though lettuce is most often planted directly from seed in late March to early April, it can be started from transplants. Transplants allow lettuce...

Fruit trees can be pruned from now through March as long as the wood isn't frozen. Following are some general recommendations on pruning mature...

REMINDERS Cover strawberry plants with mulch so they don't heave out of the ground this winter. VEGETABLES Using Old Garden Seed Garden catalogs seem to come earlier...

Turfgrass competition. Maintaining a strong, vigorous turf will help prevent the invasion of new weeds and help to crowd out existing weeds. To grow turf that will...

Blog Post: http://www.ksuhortnewsletter.org Video of the Week: Cuttings to Grow Inside for the Winter https://kansashealthyyards.org/all-videos/video/cuttings-to-grow-inside-for-winter Events Kansas Forest Service Tree, Shrub Seedling Sale, September 1 - October 15 REMINDERS •...

The keys to successful lawn seeding are proper rates, even dispersal, good seed to soil contact, and proper watering. Evenness is best achieved by...

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

UPCOMING EVENTS K-State's Turf and Ornamental Field Day is happening! It will be held at the Rocky Ford Turfgrass Research Center, 1700 Barnes Road, on...

The results of last February’s cold snap are in! There has been an assortment of branch dieback and bark splitting from this cold spell....

Vegetable gardening doesn’t end just because it isn’t spring anymore! Fall is an excellent time to grow many vegetable crops. During this season the...