Fruiting trees and shrubs are in high demand for color during the drab winter months. The wonderful world of plants gives us a lot of options in the category of
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When forsythia show those bright yellow blooms, that indicates to get busy applying pre-emergence weed control (crabgrass preventer) to lawns.
Beth Wilson
Pulaski County Extension Agent for Horticulture
It s turf season! Lawnmowers will soon be cranked up in Pulaski County. Mowing is something that shouldn t be taken lightly as it can really affect disease management and weed control. In addition, there are some other jobs to be done in the spring.
Spring is NOT the time for fertilizing your tall fescue lawn. To repeat, spring is NOT the time to fertilize your tall fescue lawn. Applying nitrogen fertilizer causes grass to grow so much that you have to mow more often, it many times fertilizes weeds that are already out there, and it predisposes tall fescue to brown patch disease.
Do you get plumb ill when your tomatoes (or insert any vegetable name) become diseased and it seems like you just started harvesting? Or the lettuce you planted is done
Beth Wilson
River birch bending in the ice storm of 2009 (photo from http://www.wlky.com/weather/2009-ice-storm-anniversary/24145746)
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We ve reached that part of winter where we have a pretty decent chance of a snow/ice event in Pulaski Co. We always learn from these events, we even learn about trees. Let s go over some ways to help trees get through a snow/ice event.
Don t shake ice and snow off the branches. When tree or shrub branches bend over, resist the urge to go out and knock the ice or snow off. Woody plants can tolerate a certain amount of bending. Mother Nature seems to do a fair job of restoring the form for most trees suffering this type of stress.