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Horticulture 2003 Newsletter


December 17, 2003

   Last Newsletter of the Season

   Upcoming Events

   Dormant Seeding of Turfgrass

  Winter Hardiness of Fruit Plants

   Care of Christmas and Thanksgiving Cacti


December 10, 2003

   Amaryllis Culture

   Mouse Damage to Fruit Trees/Plants


December 3, 2003

   Choosing and Caring for Your Christmas Tree

   Garden Soil Preparation - It's Not Too Late

   Ice Melters


November 26, 2003

   Poinsettia Care

   Pruning Shrubs

   Monitor Indoor Plant Temperatures


November 19, 2003

  Should You Let Turf Grow Tall in the Fall?

   Tree Leaves and Your Lawn

   Winterizing Strawberry Plants

   Begin Rabbit Protection


November 12, 2003

   Winterizing Roses

   Winter Care of Houseplants

   Why Do Houseplants Lose Leaves After Being Brought Inside?

   Water Landscape Plants Before Winter


November 5, 2003

   Control Broadleaf Weeds in Lawns Now

   Winterizing a Cool-Season Lawn

   Imidacloprid and Woody Ornamental Insect Pests


October 29, 2003

   Gardening After a Freeze - How long Can You Go?

   Storing Peppers for Later Use

   Garden Mums

   Reproducing Apple Trees

   Stratification


October 22, 2003

   Storing Tomatoes After a Freeze

   Preserving Wood Tool Handles

   Fall Colors of Trees

   Perennial Garden Clean-up

   Millipedes


October 15, 2003

   Natural Needle Drop on Needled Evergreens

   Why Isn't My Red Maple Red?

   Amending Soils With Sand


October 8, 2003

   Fruit Planting Preparation

   Winter Storage of Summer Bulbs

   Hackberry Psyllids Invading Homes

   Are Acorns Edible?


October 1, 2003

   Pumpkins - Storing, Decorating, and Carving

   Storing Tomatoes After a Freeze

 Planting Trees in the Fall

 Spring-Flowering Plants Blooming in the Fall

 Fertilize Spring-Flowering Bulb Beds in October


September 24, 2003

   Early Fall Tips for Broadleaf Weed Control

   Time to Plant Spring-flowering Bulbs

   Boxelder Bugs Invading Homes


September 17, 2003

   Sweetpotato Harvest

   Winter Squashes

   Dividing Peonies

   Gray Leaf Spot of Perennial Ryegrass a No-Show?

   Time Approaching for Control of Large Patch of Zoysiagrass

    What's That Other Junk in My Turf Seed?

    Moving Houseplants Inside for the Winter

   Harvesting and Curing Black Walnut


September 10, 2003

   Recommended Tall Fescue Cultivars

   Fall Lawn Fertilization and Cultivation

   Storing Apples

   Reblooming Poinsettias

 Reblooming Christmas and Thanksgiving Cacti


September 3, 2003

   Planting Cool-Season 'Salad' Vegetables

   Late Tomato Revival

   When Are Apples Ready to Pick?

   Did the Drought Kill My Trees?

   Summer Drought 2003


August 27, 2003

   Bitter Cucumbers

   Grape Disease Control After Harvest

   Water Those Trees

   Squirrel Damage to Trees

   Twig Girdlers


August 20, 2003

   Too Late to Spray for Bagworms

   Watering Newly Planted Trees and Shrubs

 Tomatoes and Stink Bugs

   Pesticide Effectiveness

   Brown Recluse Spiders


August 13, 2003

   How to Tell a Good Melon

   Squash Bugs - How to Get Rid of Them

   Dividing Daylilies

   Field Dodder


August 6, 2003

   Fried Tomatoes?

   Pear Harvest

   Fertilize Strawberries

   Control Sooty Blotch and Fly Speck

   Blister Beetles on Tomatoes


July 30, 2003

   Is My Lawn Still Alive?

   Turfgrass Problems

   Powdery Mildew on Pumpkins

   Green June Beetle

 Second-Generation Elm Leaf Beetle


July 23, 2003

   A Good Muskmelon?

   Spider Mites in Tomatoes

   Bermudagrass Control

   Walnut Caterpillars

   Cicada Killer Wasps

   Buffalograss Webworms in Turf

   Dividing Iris


July 16, 2003

   2003 Annual Open House and Field Day, Olathe

   2003 Turf & Ornamentals Field Day, Wichita

   Tomatoes Ripening Slowly?

   Blossom End Rot of Tomatoes

   Chinch Bugs on Turf

   Flatid Planthoppers Prevalent


July 9, 2003

   Warm-Season Turfgrass Fertilization

   Whatever Happened to Gray Leaf Spon of Perennial Ryegrass?

   When are Apples Ready to Pick

   When to Pick Blackberries

   Pop Up Fruit Tree Limbs if Needed

   Fireblight

   Dieback of Fragrant Sumac

   Harlequin Bug


July 2, 2003

   Pittsburg Conference on Walnuts and Pecans

   Bipolaris Leaf Spot on Buffalograss

   Watering Fruit Plants

   Spider Mite Control

   Grub Control

   Leaf Scorch on Trees and Shrubs

   Watering Newly Planted Trees and Shrubs

   Herbicide Damage on Trees and Shrubs

   Potato Decline in Home Gardens


June 25, 2003

   Potato Leafhopper

   Staking Tomatoes

   Transition Time

   Propagating Woody Plants from Softwood Cuttings

   Spray for Bagworms Now

   Slime Molds


June 18, 2003

   High Tunnel and Vegetable Tours

   Brown Patch on Fescue

   Trees Shedding Leaves

   Control Pine Diseases by Systemic Injections?

   Controlling Leaf Spots of Tomato in Home Gardens

   White Grubs in Gardens and Flower Beds

   Diazinon Phase-Out


June 11, 2003

   Tomato Disease Problems - First Alert

   Onions Developing

   Summer Care of Strawberries

   Fruit Reminders

   June Drop of Fruit

   Poison Ivy Identification and Control


June 4, 2003

   Cucumber Beetles

   Tomato Transplants for Late-Season Tomatoes

   Mulching Garden Crops

   Scout and Remove Fireblight from Crabapples & Pears

   Strawberry Bed Renewal

   Control of Prostrate Spurge

   Vinegar as a Herbicide

   Carpenter Bees


May 28, 2003

   KFGA Summer Fruit Tour - June 14 & 15

   Kansas Grape Summer Workshop - June 14

   Controlling Yellow Nutsedge in Turf

   Reducing Fruit Numbers on Apple Trees

   Bagworms Making Their Appearance

   Borer Control

   Anthracnose on Trees Abundant This Spring

   Juniper Problems


May 21, 2003

   'Staggering' Sweetcorn Planting

   Tomato Cages

   "Tip" Blackberries, Black Raspberries, and Purple Raspberries

   Weird Growth on Pines

   Lecanium Scale

   Ladybird Beetles


May 14, 2003

   Asparagus Beetles

   Cutworms

   Mulch Too Thick?

   Oak Galls

   Walnut Wilt

 Cankerworms


May 7, 2003

   Turfgrass Update

   Field Bindweed

   Moving Houseplants Outside for the Summer

   Aphids

   Treat for Dothistroma Needle Blight

   Rhubarb Crown Rot


April 30, 2003

   Starter Fertilizers and Setting Plants

   Setting Tomato Plants Deep?

   Mowing Strategies for a Moist Spring

   Fruit Tree Sprays and Rains

   New Fruit Trees, How Long to Bear?

   Remove Blossoms on Newly Planted Strawberries

   Controlling Grassy Weeds in Broadleaf Plants


April 23, 2003

   May 5 - Insect Control Field Day

   Cabbage, Broccoli and Cauliflower - Time to Fertilize

   Planting Sweet Corn

   Early May Fertilization of Cool-Season Lawns

   Leaf Spot on Iris

   How to Prune Pines

   Look Now for Pine Sawfly


April 16, 2003

   Freeze Injured Transplants

   Transplanting Tomatoes

   Strategies for Perennial Broadleaf Weed Control

   Freezes and Fruit Blossoms

   Preventing Fruit on Crabapples

   Ash/Lilac Borer


April 9, 2003

   Keep Mower Blades Sharp

   Cold Snaps and Spring Turf Management

 Controlling Grassy Weeds in Iris

   Termites or Ants

   Bagworms, It's Still Too Early to Spray

   Clover Mites

   Kabatina Tip Blight on Eastern Redcedar

   Fireblight Control


April 2, 2003

   Early Spring Weed Control in Warm-Season Grasses

   Controlling Weeds in Strawberries

   Boxelder Bugs and Hackberry Psyllids

   Ants in the Home

   How Cold to Damage Garden Crops?

   Germinating Seeds

   Herbicides for Home Vegetable Gardens


March 26, 2003

 Upcoming Events - Herb Night

 Southern Wilt of Geranium - A Bioterrorist Threat?

 Pollinating Fruit Trees

 Apple Tree Sprays

 Fruit Disease Control

 How Low Should You Go?

 Wild Garlic, Wild Onion and Star-of-Bethlehem

 


March 19, 2003

   Irish Potatoes - Now's the Time

   Using Old Garden Seed

   Pruning Roses

   Ten Rules for Planting Trees

   Look at Tree's Roots When Buying

   Brown Coloration on Junipers


March 12, 2003

   Prairie Star Flowers

   Strawberry Planting and Mulch Removal

   Pruning Young Fruit Trees

   When Fruit Plants Arrive

   Cut Back Ornamental Grasses Soon


March 5, 2003

   Specialty Products Workshop

   Iron Chlorosis and Calcareous Soils

   Repotting Houseplants

   Correcting Iron Chlorosis in Trees

   Plants Leafing Out Early


February 26, 2003

   Lawn Calendar for Warm-Season Grasses

   It's not Too Late for Dormant Overseeding of Turfgrass

   Lawn Calendar for Cool-Season Grasses

   Check Plants for Scale Insects


February 19, 2003

   Poinsettias Galore!

   Pruning Overgrown Apple Trees

   Eliminating Unwanted Fruit From Trees

   Pride of Kansas Winners for 2003


February 12, 2003

   2003 Fruit Tree Pruning Workshop

   Some Fruit Trees Need Pollinators

   Pruning Deciduous Shrubs

   Butterfly Gardening


February 5, 2003

   Winter Strategies for Turf Management

   Fertilizing Spring-flowering Bulbs

   Plants that Deer Don't Like

   Horticulture 2002 Indexes

   Searching Web Pages


January 29, 2003

   African Violet Troubles

   Miniature Roses

   Forcing Stems of Woody Plants for Indoor Bloom


January 22, 2003

   Cloning Apple Trees

   Plants that Add Interest to the Winter Landscape

   All-America Selection Winners - Vegetables and Herbs


January 15, 2003

   Mid-America Fruit Growers Conference

   2003 Commercial Fruit Spray Guides

   Fruit Plants and Chilling

   All-America Selection Winners - Annuals & Perennials


January 8, 2003

  Fruit Trees May Be Pruned Now

 Conservation Trees from the Kansas Forest Service

 Now May Be a Good Time to Prune Certain Trees

 Treated Lumber in the Garden

  


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