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Horticulture 2001 Newsletter

December 19, 2001

Your ALT-Text here   Last Newsletter of the Season

Your ALT-Text here   What To Do With the Christmas Tree After Christmas

Your ALT-Text here   Mouse Damage to Fruit Trees/Plants

 

December 12, 2001

Your ALT-Text here   Problem with Frazier Fir Christmas Trees

Your ALT-Text here   Tips for Handling Frosted Turf

Your ALT-Text here   Tucking Your Lawnmower in for the Winter

Your ALT-Text here   Dormant Seeding of Turfgrass

Your ALT-Text here   Care of Christmas and Thanksgiving Cacti

Your ALT-Text here   Amaryllis Culture

December 5, 2001

Your ALT-Text here   Great Plains Vegetable Growers Conference

Your ALT-Text here   Mid-America Fruit Growers Conference

Your ALT-Text here   Preparing the Perennial Bed for Winter

Your ALT-Text here   Fall Care of Peonies

Your ALT-Text here   Choosing and Caring for Your Christmas Tree

Your ALT-Text here   Monitor Indoor Temperatures for Houseplants

November 28, 2001

Your ALT-Text here Poinsettia Care

Your ALT-Text here Fruit Plants and Chilling

Your ALT-Text here Begin Rabbit Protection

Your ALT-Text here Nightcrawlers in the Lawn

Your ALT-Text here Genetically Engineered Dutch Elm Resistance

November 21, 2001

Your ALT-Text here Are Poinsettias Poisonous?

Your ALT-Text here Winterizing Strawberry Plants

Your ALT-Text here   Soil Tests and Plant Growth

Your ALT-Text here   Water Landscape Plants Before Winter

November 14, 2001

Your ALT-Text here   Kansas Turfgrass Conference - November 27-29

Your ALT-Text here   Commercial Cut Flower/Market Gardening Conference

Your ALT-Text here   Storing Apples

Your ALT-Text here   Potential Problems with a Warm Fall

Your ALT-Text here   Winter Care of Houseplants

Your ALT-Text here    Ice Melters

November 7, 2001

Your ALT-Text here   Late Fall Turf Management Part I:  Fertilization

Your ALT-Text here   There is Still Time to Plant Spring-Flowering Bulbs

Your ALT-Text here   Stratification

October 31, 2001

Your ALT-Text here   Producing and Marketing Vegetables for Restaurants and Wholesale Markets

  Your ALT-Text here Garden Debris

Your ALT-Text here   Fall Broadleaf Weed Control Update

Your ALT-Text here   When to Mulch Roses

Your ALT-Text here   Why Isn't My Red Maple Red?

October 24, 2001

Your ALT-Text here   2001 Central Region Woodland Stewardship Conference

Your ALT-Text here   Pumpkins and Halloween

Your ALT-Text here   Pride of Kansas Winners

Your ALT-Text here   Pesticide Cancellations

Your ALT-Text here   Prairie Star Annual Flower Winners

 

October 17, 2001

Your ALT-Text here   Tree Leaves in the Yard - What Do I Do?

Your ALT-Text here   Harvesting and Storing Tomatoes Before a Freeze

Your ALT-Text here   Perennial Garden Clean-up

Your ALT-Text here   Fruit Planting Preparation

 

October 10, 2001

Your ALT-Text here Harvesting Pumpkins

Your ALT-Text here Millipedes

Your ALT-Text here Planting Trees in the Fall

Your ALT-Text here Amending Soils with Sand

October 3, 2001

Your ALT-Text here   Anticipating a Freeze

Your ALT-Text here Winter Storage of Summer Bulbs

Your ALT-Text here   Fall Colors of Trees

September 26, 2001

Your ALT-Text here Fall Lawn Seeding Tips

Your ALT-Text here   Time to Plant Spring-flowering Bulbs

Your ALT-Text here   Fertilize Spring-flowering Bulb Beds in October

Your ALT-Text here   Moving Houseplants Inside for the Winter

September 19, 2001

Your ALT-Text here Direct Application of Organic Materials to Gardens

Your ALT-Text here   Digging Sweetpotatoes

Your ALT-Text here   Painting Pumpkins

Your ALT-Text here   Amaryllis, Bringing it Back Into Bloom

Your ALT-Text here Harvesting and Curing Black Walnuts

September 12, 2001

Your ALT-Text here   Fall Lawn Fertilization and Cultivation

Your ALT-Text here   Reblooming Christmas and Thanksgiving Cacti

Your ALT-Text here   Reblooming Poinsettias

Your ALT-Text here   Twig Dieback on Pin Oak

Your ALT-Text here   Defoliating Caterpillars

September 5, 2001

Your ALT-Text here Large Patch Disease on Zoysiagrass

Your ALT-Text here   Pumpkin Yellow Vine Decline Confirmed in Kansas

Your ALT-Text here   When Are Apples Ready to Pick?

Your ALT-Text here   Oak Wilt in Kansas

August 29, 2001

Your ALT-Text here   Harvesting Winter Squash

Your ALT-Text here   Kentucky Bluegrass Variety Selection for Cool-Season Lawns

Your ALT-Text here   Brown Patch on Tall Fescue

Your ALT-Text here   Summer Patch

Your ALT-Text here Plants for Late Season Bloom

Your ALT-Text here   Lilacs with Dead Canes

Your ALT-Text here   Natural Needle Drop on Pines

August 22, 2001

Your ALT-Text here Is My Lawn Still Alive?

Your ALT-Text here Why Lilacs Don't Bloom

Your ALT-Text here Tree Damage on Construction Sites

Your ALT-Text here Euonymus Scale

August 15, 2001

Your ALT-Text here   Hard Core in Tomatoes

Your ALT-Text here   How to Tell a Good Melon

Your ALT-Text here   Tall Fescue Selection for Cool-Season Lawns

Your ALT-Text here   Dividing Daylilies

Your ALT-Text here   Overwatering Problems

Your ALT-Text here   White Grubs (Preventative Treatments)

Your ALT-Text here   Squirrel Damage to Trees

August 8, 2001

Your ALT-Text here Pear Harvest

Your ALT-Text here Control of Sooty Blotch and Fly Speck

Your ALT-Text here Bitter Cucumbers

Your ALT-Text here Fall Lawn Prep Begins Now

Your ALT-Text here Correcting Iron Chlorosis in Trees

August 1, 2001

Your ALT-Text here Iron Chlorosis and Calcareous Soils

Your ALT-Text here Fertilize Strawberries

Your ALT-Text here   Saving Seed from Fruit Trees

Your ALT-Text here   Spider Mite Control

Your ALT-Text here   Bagworms

Your ALT-Text here Grasshoppers

July 25, 2001

Your ALT-Text here   Poor Pollination in Vine Crops

Your ALT-Text here   Tomatoes Slow to Ripen?

Your ALT-Text here   Blossom End Rot in Tomatoes

Your ALT-Text here   Soil pH and Sulfur

Your ALT-Text here   Cicada Killer Wasps

Your ALT-Text here Update on Turfgrass Diseases

July 18, 2001

Your ALT-Text here   Help Turf Handle the Heat

Your ALT-Text here   Nutsedge Control in Lawns

Your ALT-Text here   Tomatoes and Stink Bugs

Your ALT-Text here Dividing Iris

July 11, 2001

Your ALT-Text here   Upcoming Events

Your ALT-Text here   Watering Fruit Plants

Your ALT-Text here Champion Trees

Your ALT-Text here   Spider Mites

Your ALT-Text here  How Big is Kansas Horticulture?

July 3, 2001

Your ALT-Text here   Herbicide Drift

Your ALT-Text here   Watermelon Anthracnose

Your ALT-Text here   Fruit Disease Update

Your ALT-Text here   Prop Up Fruit Tree Limbs if Needed

Your ALT-Text here Buffalograss Problems

Your ALT-Text here Anthracnose Observed on Creeping Bentgrass Putting Greens

Your ALT-Text here   Spittlebugs on Eastern Redbud

Your ALT-Text here   Squash Bugs

Your ALT-Text here   Bark Shedding

June 27, 2001

Your ALT-Text here Daylily Rust Found in Kansas

Your ALT-Text here Warm-Season Turfgrass Fertilization

Your ALT-Text here Gear Up For Tomato Leaf Spot Control

Your ALT-Text here Garden Fertilizer Management and Wet Weather

Your ALT-Text here Fruits on Potato Plants - A Follow Up

Your ALT-Text here Worms in Sweetcorn

Your ALT-Text here Propagating Woody Plants from Softwood Cuttings

Your ALT-Text here Bagworm Comments

June 20, 2001

Your ALT-Text here 'June Drop' of Fruit

Your ALT-Text here "Tomatoes" on Potato Plants

Your ALT-Text here   Digging Onions

Your ALT-Text here   Hail Damage to Gardens

Your ALT-Text here New Insecticides on the Market

June 13, 2001

Your ALT-Text here   Irish Potato Harvest

Your ALT-Text here Transition Time

Your ALT-Text here Check for Bagworms Before Spraying

Your ALT-Text here   "Sour" Mulch Can Burn Plants

Your ALT-Text here   Summer Care of Strawberries

June 6, 2001

Your ALT-Text here   Anthracnose on Shade Trees

Your ALT-Text here   Watch Out for Wilt Diseases on Trees

Your ALT-Text here   Zoysiagrass Winter Injury:  What to think and What to Expect

Your ALT-Text here   Brown Patch Control

Your ALT-Text here Leaves of Three! (Poison Ivy)

May 30, 2001

Your ALT-Text here Tomato Leaf Diseases

Your ALT-Text here Weed Control in Vegetable Gardens

Your ALT-Text here Smart Irrigation Strategies for Turfgrass

Your ALT-Text here   Strawberry Bed Renewal

Your ALT-Text here   "Tip" Blackberreis, Black Raspberries and Purple Raspberries

May 23, 2001

Your ALT-Text here   Winter Injury on Ornamentals and Turfgrass

Your ALT-Text here   Bermudagrass Variety Trials

Your ALT-Text here   Sod Webworms

Your ALT-Text here   Carpenter Bees

Your ALT-Text here Moth Flights/Activities

Your ALT-Text here   Downy Mildew on Rose

May 16, 2001

Your ALT-Text here   Peony Harvest and Storage

Your ALT-Text here   Bolting in Spring Crops

Your ALT-Text here   May Fertilization of Cool-Season Lawns

Your ALT-Text here Keep Mower Blades Sharp

Your ALT-Text here   Oak Galls

Your ALT-Text here   Reducing Fruit Numbers on Apple Trees

Your ALT-Text here   Remove Strawberry Blossoms on Newly Planted Strawberries

May 9, 2001

Your ALT-Text here   Summer Fruit Tours to be Held on May 30 and June 6

Your ALT-Text here Sawfly Larvae on Elm, Ash and Maple

Your ALT-Text here   Cankerworm

Your ALT-Text here   Beneficial Insects for Greenhouses

Your ALT-Text here   Moving Houseplants Outside for the Summer

Your ALT-Text here Iris Problems

Your ALT-Text here   Bacterial Wilt of Cucurbits

Your ALT-Text here   Dothistroma Needle Blight

Your ALT-Text here   Tenn Cop 5E and Pine Disease Control

May 2, 2001

Your ALT-Text here   It's Time to Raise Mowing Heights

Your ALT-Text here   Leaf Spot on Iris

Your ALT-Text here   Transplants and Starter Solutions

Your ALT-Text here   Harvesting Asparagus

Your ALT-Text here   Pruning Spring-Flowering Shrubs

Your ALT-Text here Termites or Ants

April 25, 2001

Your ALT-Text here Eastern Tent Caterpillar (ETC)

Your ALT-Text here   European Pine Sawfly (EPS)

Your ALT-Text here   Time Now for Sphaeropsis Tip Blight Control

Your ALT-Text here   Is it a Needle Disease or Winter Scorch

Your ALT-Text here Control of Apple, Quince Rust on Flowering Crabapples and Hawthorns

Your ALT-Text here   Blue Spruce Decline

Your ALT-Text here   Fruit Disease Update

Your ALT-Text here   Historical Extension Publications

April 18, 2001

Your ALT-Text here   Strategies for Perennial Broadleaf Weed Control

Your ALT-Text here   Planting Sweet corn

Your ALT-Text here Cool Weather Blues

Your ALT-Text here   Are Ornamental Peppers Edible?

Your ALT-Text here   Pruning Storm-damaged Trees

Your ALT-Text here   Bagworms, It's Still Too Early to Spray

Your ALT-Text here   Freezes and Fruit Blossoms

April 11, 2001

Your ALT-Text here   Dursban Phase-Out (Correction)

Your ALT-Text here   Winter Annual Weed Control in Turf

Your ALT-Text here   Controlling Grassy Weeds in Iris

Your ALT-Text here   Apple Tree Sprays

Your ALT-Text here   Fertilization of Cole Crops and Potatoes

Your ALT-Text here   Asparagus Harvest

April 4, 2001

Your ALT-Text here Garden Soil May Contain Nematodes - A Damaging Pest

Your ALT-Text here   Early Spring Weed Control in Warm-Season Grasses

Your ALT-Text here   Preventing Fruit on Crabapples

Your ALT-Text here   Ash/Lilac Borer

March 28, 2001

Your ALT-Text here Pruning Roses

Your ALT-Text here   Bacterial Blight on Geraniums

Your ALT-Text here   Repotting Houseplants

Your ALT-Text here   Protecting Plants from Frost Using Plastic Jugs, Opaque Hot Caps and Wall-O-Water

Your ALT-Text here   Controlling Fireblight on Apples, Pears

Your ALT-Text here   Inspect Blackberry Plantings for Orange Rust

March 21, 2001

Your ALT-Text here What’s New in Irish Potatoes

Your ALT-Text here Crabgrass Control for Late Fall or Spring Seeded Turf

Your ALT-Text here Boxelder Bugs and Hackberry Psyllids Showing Up in Homes

Your ALT-Text here Wild Garlic, Wild Onion and Star-of-Bethlehem

March 14, 2001

Your ALT-Text here   Planting Irish Potatoes

Your ALT-Text here   Planting Peas

Your ALT-Text here   Ten Rules for Planting Trees

Your ALT-Text here   Arbor Day is Almost Here

Your ALT-Text here   When Fruit Plants Arrive

Your ALT-Text here It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Crabgrass

March 7, 2001

Your ALT-Text here   Spring Garden Soil Preparation

Your ALT-Text here Giving Turf a Breather:   Spring Aerating Tips

Your ALT-Text here   Strawberry Planting and Mulch Removal

Your ALT-Text here Annual Pruning is Important

Your ALT-Text here   Cut Back Ornamental Grasses Soon

February 28, 2001

Your ALT-Text here   More on Mowing:  Clipping Recycling

Your ALT-Text here   Drought, Winter Damage Continues on Conifers

Your ALT-Text here   Early Season Disease Control for Home Fruit Crops

Your ALT-Text here Butterfly Gardening

Your ALT-Text here   Bone Meal and Mad Cow Disease

February 21, 2001

Your ALT-Text here   Turfgrass Basics Part 2:  Mowing

Your ALT-Text here   Some Fruit Trees Need Pollinators

Your ALT-Text here   Pruning Young Fruit Trees

February 14, 2001

Your ALT-Text here   Fruit Pruning Workshop February 22 in Wichita

Your ALT-Text here   Starting Seedling Plants

Your ALT-Text here   Information Increases Gardening Success

Your ALT-Text here   Check Plants for Scale Insects

Your ALT-Text here   Pruning Deciduous Shrubs

February 7, 2001

Your ALT-Text here   Eliminating Unwanted Fruit From Trees

Your ALT-Text here   Fertilizing Spring-flowering Bulbs

Your ALT-Text here   More Tips For Cool-Season Turfgrass Fertilization

January 31, 2001

Your ALT-Text here   Turfgrass Basics, Part I: Fertilization

Your ALT-Text here   A Note to All County Hort and Ag Agents

Your ALT-Text here Diazinon Phase-Out

Your ALT-Text here Pruning Storm-damaged Trees

Your ALT-Text here Valentine's Day Flowering Plant Choices

Your ALT-Text here Handling Tips for Valentine 's Day Roses

January 24, 2001

Your ALT-Text here   Needle Scorch on Conifers

Your ALT-Text here   Forcing Stems of Woody Plants for Indoor Bloom

Your ALT-Text here Cloning Apple Trees

Your ALT-Text here Bacterial Blight of Geranium Confirmed

Your ALT-Text here New Daylily Disease Detected

January 17, 2001

Your ALT-Text here   Mid-America Fruit Growers Meeting

Your ALT-Text here   Dormant Seeding of Turfgrass

Your ALT-Text here   Plants that Add Interest to the Winter Landscape

Your ALT-Text here   Conservation Trees from the Kansas Forest Service

January 10, 2001

Your ALT-Text here   Winter Cold:  How Does Our Turf Handle It

Your ALT-Text here   Fruit Trees May Be Pruned Now

Your ALT-Text here 2001 All-America Selections:   Flowers

January 3, 2001

Your ALT-Text here   2001 All-America Selections:   Vegetables

Your ALT-Text here   What To Do With the Christmas Tree Afater Christmas

Your ALT-Text here   African Violet Troubles

Your ALT-Text here Watering Houseplants

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