March Gardening Calendar
Category Week Activity 1 2 3 4 Houseplants x x x x Two handsome houseplants that provide fragrant blossoms indoors this month are the Confederate jasmine (Trachelospermum jasminoides)…
Read MoreStarting Tomatoes Indoors
Is it time? Can I start my tomato seeds yet? We’re all eager for spring, but starting your tomato seeds too early is a bad idea. You don’t want…
Read MoreEdible of the Month: Peas
Peas are not only tasty, they look beautiful grown next to colorful flowers such as this amaranth. Fresh peas are a treat. They are one of the earliest crops ready…
Read MoreFertilizing Spring Flowering Bulbs
The best time to fertilize spring-flowering bulbs is when foliage emerges in the spring rather than at flowering. Traditionally, gardeners have applied fertilizer during bloom or a bit after, but…
Read More2015: Year of the Coleus
The National Garden Bureau has chosen coleus as its ornamental annual to promote in 2015. Thus, we now are in the “year of the coleus”. This colorful yet durable plant…
Read MoreFebruary Gardening Calendar
Ornamentals Weeks 1-4: Winter aconite (Eranthis sp.) and snowdrops (Galanthus sp.) are hardy bulbs for shady gardens that frequently push up through snow to bloom now. Weeks 1-4: Inspect summer…
Read MoreEAB found in White Fringe Trees in Ohio with high pest populations
White fringetree (Chionanthus virginicus) has been found attacked by emerald ash borer (Agrilus planipennis Fairmaire) by Don Cipollini, a professor at Wright State University in Ohio Details A larval specimen…
Read MoreThousand Cankers Disease of Walnut
Black walnut is ecologically and economically important to Missouri, and thousand cankers disease (TCD) represents a serious threat to this resource. TCD occurs when the walnut twig beetle (WTB), Pityophthorus…
Read MoreEmerald Ash Borer News
FROM THE MISSOURI DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION FOREST HEALTH PROGRAM December 2014 Newsletter The emerald ash borer (EAB), Agrilus planipennis, is a non-native forest pest causing widespread mortality of ash trees…
Read MoreJanuary Gardening Calendar
Category Week Activity 1 2 3 4 Houseplants x x x x To clean heavily encrusted clay pots, scrub them with a steel wool pad after they have soaked…
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