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Wander the aisles in our local nurseries and ask what’s been a favorite. Consider what tools are worn out and think of the additions that help your gardener enjoy the garden and landscape even more.
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As winter approaches, the days get shorter. As the days get shorter, we are cut back on the number of daylight hours we have to work outside.
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All food sources are organic matter and anytime an organic item decomposes in an anaerobic (absent of oxygen) environment such as a landfill, it will release methane.
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Sweet potatoes are a nutritionally dense, summer annual root vegetable that we can grow quite well here in east Texas.
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This time of year is perfect for planning new beds, planting perennials, cleaning tools, closing down 2021′s garden, and gearing up for a great start to spring of 2022.
A bait that targets only feral hogs is being researched but still a long way away from being available.
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Homeowners that are thinking about adding fruit trees to their home landscape need to first start by taking an honest look at their site.
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An evening seminar covering the how-to’s of home fruit production will be held at the Angelina County Extension Office this Tuesday, Sept. 21 starting at 6:30 p.m.
The East Texas Fruit and Vegetable Virtual Conference will be held on the morning of Thursday, Oct 7.
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Whether you hunt or not, this late summer/early fall planting can do several things: attract wildlife, enrich your soil, and beautify your place.
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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.
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On the surface, it seems like a silly question to ask: when should I water my lawn? As East Texas is coming out of an incredibly wet spring and early summer, and landscapes start to dry up, the question is a good one.
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About this time of year, spring planted gardens are winding down. The heat of summer is here and the soil is drying up. And yet this is the perfect time to prepare for your fall garden.
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Grubs eat roots of lawns in addition to several other landscape plants.
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It is completely possible that your pond may have had a fish die-off recently as a result up the stormy weather that we have experienced.
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The addition of a layer of three inches of mulch is one of the best additions that you can make to any of your flower beds, shrubs, and trees.
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One of the most popular choices of trees to add to the landscape is a pecan. It seems several folks want to have at least one pecan tree around their house but are often frustrated with the lack of results they often get.
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Taller canopy growth generally corresponds to greater energy production which supports deeper and more vigorous rooting.
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What's the best way to detect if your oak was damaged by the February freeze? How do you treat it if it was? Angelina County Extension Agent Cary Sims gives some tips.
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Vegetation provides cover for fish and helps add oxygen. But as we can imagine, too much vegetation can lead to problems as well.
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Muddy water is often a problem in Texas farm ponds because it inhibits the growth of natural fish food and is just not aesthetically pleasing.
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There are two kinds of fish available that love to eat weeds. These two fish are the Triploid grass carp and tilapia.
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Don't give up taking care of these trees and shrubs as our efforts this year will make a huge impact on next year’s production.
The fact was, we had to wait for weeks, perhaps months or more, to find out which plants were going to make it.
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Behind the three numbers is nitrogen, phosphorous and potassium. Those three are the most needed of all the nutrients required for a plant to grow.
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Follow these steps and you should save more of your landscape from damage or total loss.
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If you are looking to grow peaches in your landscape, know that peaches will take some care. There’s pruning; weed, insect, and disease control; fruit thinning; as well as water and fertilization.
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With all the acorns gone and several weeks to go until spring green-up, many wildlife species are facing shortages.
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With a raised bed and some good soil growing produce 12 months of the year, one could see a small, to modest financial return.
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This cold, wet, dead-of-winter time is the best time to study what is going on and plan for a successful garden.
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If unsure that your garden site is poorly drained, there is a simple test to check drainage.
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Long ago, these items must have been considered wonderful treats because there was no way to get fresh fruit and nuts all over the world year-round.
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The tree grown from seed may certainly not produce fruit exactly like the fruit we saw and ate.
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Those leaves are all-natural, organic, weed-free, and using them somewhere in your landscape is the ultimate in recycling!
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While you can wait as some do until spring when the gardening fever, establishing woody plants long before they reach our difficult summer season is by far a better bet.
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With fall upon us and getting closer to winter, my week was filled with questions about bugs. Bumble bees, honeybees, armyworms, and a potential sighting of the Asian giant hornet are among the questions that I fielded.
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Dividing gives you free plants to expand your beds or gift to friends.
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Two really simple winter cover crops that I’ll push are rye grain and Crimson clover. These can be used alone or together to get the best out of each.
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Recognize that starting an agricultural business endeavor just to save on some taxes is unwise at best. The amount of effort, overhead costs, and risk involved in raising crops or livestock takes a tremendous understanding of environmental challenges, markets, and incredible personal skill.
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I believe one overlooked fruit that we can grow here is strawberries. Growing them need not be difficult and you can raise better fruit in your back yard then with proper care and attention.
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This is the time of year that I get a variety of questions about lawns, and the clock is running out.
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Great products won’t do what they are meant to if we don’t read and follow the label.
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Bamboos are botanical “grasses” that are perennial. We know them as one of the most difficult to control ornamental plants.
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Ponds can be a complex ecosystem. Certainly its an system that we can’t figure out (many times) by simply looking at the surface of water.
San Augustine was called the “drama queen” of turfgrasses.
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Over a period of several weeks to a few months, soil temperatures become high enough to kill many of the damaging soil pests and weed seed to a depth of nearly 8 inches.
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There are a number of insects that can wreak havoc on turfgrass and cause it to be unsightly.
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The soak and cycle method breaks up your typical sprinkler cycle into at least 2 different, concurrent sessions to fully allow water to reach deep into the soil.