Horticulture

Black walnuts are ready to be harvested when the hull can be dented with your thumb. You can also wait until the nuts start falling...

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

By: Scott Eckert, County Extension Agent, Horticulture If you ask me about trees that I recommend for the home landscape I would tell you that...

  2014 Fall Forestry Field Day focuses on dual-crop systems and stewardship.   MANHATTAN, Kan. -- Often times a conservation practice can look great on paper but...

By: Scott Eckert, County Extension Agent, Horticulture Almost everyone who wants a beautiful, healthy lawn knows that they must fertilize to achieve it. But many...

Raw, mature seeds may be prepared at home by covering unshelled seeds with salted water (2quarts of water to 1/4 to 2 cup salt). Bring...

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...

Sweet potatoes should be harvested no later than the first fall freeze because cold temperatures can damage the sensitive roots. However, you may want to harvest...

I know what you are thinking.no way, wrong season. But you'd be mistaken. Now is the time to start thinking about your psychological need for...

By: Scott Eckert, County Extension Agent, Horticulture   Plants need nutrients to live and grow.  Nitrogen is the nutrient needed most because it is used faster...