Cary Sims

To control mosquitoes effectively around the home, it helps to know about their lifecycle.

A look at the common diseases that affect tomatoes.

I’ve said many times here and to folks across the county that I get more questions specifically about pond management than any other topic. Indeed, a staple of east Texas land owners is the farm pond.

On May 19, 2020, USDA released details of the Coronavirus Food Assistance Program (CFAP).

Some locations in East Texas, millipedes have had just the right conditions for their numbers to explode.

According to all scientific observations, we certainly don’t have any murderous hornets in East Texas, but we do have an unusually large wasp called a Cicada killer.

Native subterranean termites have already swarmed down South where the weather has already warmed up and now is reported to be swarming in Central and North Texas.

Family gardening yields more benefits than produce.

Timing advice for watering, fertilizing, and weeding for your yard.

Direction on how to help the students who have spent time and money preparing for the now-canceled Angelina County Fair.

Caley has been a member of the Huntington All-Around 4-H for eight years and will show a Charolais cross steer, named Buddy.

Jordan Rhodes with her lamb “Baily” that will show at the Angelina County Fair on Thursday, March 26 at the George H. Henderson Expo in Lufkin.

Lauren Boulware is a 15-year-old sophomore at Central High School where she is active in the FFA program and is getting ready to show her first meat goat project at the Angelina County Fair.

Morgan Chaviers is 10 years old and a 4th grader at Central Elementary and is raising broilers for her second year as she competes in the Angelina County Fair.

Often is heard, “That green and grey fungus is killing my tree! See there? It’s all over those limbs!”

Recent inquiries at the Extension office have been about pruning trees and shrubs. Indeed, this is a great time to do most of your annual pruning. Trees and shrubs are in their dormant stage and can take it quite well.

Perhaps nothing is more therapeutic than digging in wonderful, dark, rich soil. Your shovel cuts easily down thru the soft, crumbly soil and is wonderful.

Not too surprisingly, the Poinsettia (Euphorbia pulcherrima) is the most popular flowering plant sold in the United States with more than 70 million sold nationwide each year.

I’ve heard from a couple of gardeners in the last few days about how their vegetables are growing after the freeze. For both, their cabbage was doing very well.

Compost is touted as a miracle product and held in high regards by every gardener with a basic knowledge of how plants grow. We buy it in bags at the garden center or have it delivered by the dump truck load.

First frost in East Texas came two weeks earlier than usual.

Cooler weather and shorter days are bringing an end to lawn growth. These practices that will ensure a good transition of your lawn into winter months

Right under our collective noses - and probably in your very own yard - is a great gardening tool that we have typically shunned. Pine straw.

Here are some ways to deter deer from consuming garden plants.

With the right plants in a garden patch, gardeners in East Texas can raise vegetables 12 months out of the year.

While you cannot completely “deer-proof” your landscape, there are some plants that you can utilize that are not attractive to them.

Too often, cattlemen will put off some basic animal husbandry practices to save time and expense, with the hope that their herd will be fine.

Post oaks are a tough tree if left alone. They are slow-growing trees that can live in dry, poor soils, and are resistant to rot, fire, and drought. The most common reason they perish is from mechanical damage to the roots caused by construction.

This past week the annual Agricultural Agents Professional Improvement Conference was held in Galveston. It is a professional association that rotates meetings around the state and has professional improvement seminars.

Unlike the inside of your home, landscapes change seasonally.