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Trees of Texas

Aransas county fall vegetable guide 

Aransas county spring vegetable guide

10 Steps to Vegetable Garden Success

Advanced Plant Breeding

Basic Plant Breeding

Everything Texans Ask About Gardening

Plant Answers

Smart Vegetable Garden Watering

Tips for Efficient Use of Garden Space 

Vegetable Gardening in Containers

Vegetable Fact Sheets

Vegetable Growing Fact Sheets

Growing Herbs in Texas

Native Plants of Texas

Entomology: You can read them, print them out, or go to the Agrilife help desk and receive a free copy or ask them to print one for you if they don’t have one.

20 hour Structural Pest Control Apprentice Training Course

2017 Weed, Insect and Disease Control in Turfgrass

Alternative Hosts of Crapemrtyle Bark Scale

Ant ID guide

Aphids

Aphid Management Guide

Aquatic-Insect-Guide Teacher guide

Aquatic_insects ID

Asian cycad scale threat to Sago palms

B-6125 pests of cacti

B-6183 managing household ant pests

Bed bugs do it yourself options

Bees and Beneficial Insects

Beetles

Beneficial Insects

Beneficial Insects and Pests in the Garden

Brown patch vs take all

Bugs by the Yard Podcast

Burmuda grass: Home Lawn Management Calendar

Butterfly Gardening course

Caterpillars

Chinch Bugs in St. Augustine Lawns

City Bugs – Insects in the City

Cockroach Biology and Management

Common Insect and Mite Pests of Humans

Controlling Bats in Urban Areas

Controlling Blow Flies

Controlling-Fleas-2

Controlling House Flies

Controlling House Sparrows

Controlling the Pecan Nut Case Bearer

Corn Leafhopper and the Red Stunt Disease Complex

Crape Myrtle Bark Scale: A New Exotic Pest

Creating an Insect and Pollinator Friendly Garden

Desert-Termites

Diagnosing Mysterious Bug Bites

Dichotomous key arachnids

Dichotomous key arthropods

Dichotomous key insects

Do It Yourself Backyard Mosquito Control

E-217 Centipedes and Millipedes

E-218 Tent Caterpillars

E-362 Scorpions

E-367 Formosan-subterranean-termites

E- 368 Subterranean Termites

E-394 Wood-boring beetles of structures

E-408 Spiders

E-412 Carpenter ants

E-453 Boxelder Bugs

E-485 – Common Insect and Mite Pests of Humans

E-486 Pantry fabric pests in homes

EB-5086 – Wood Boring Insects of Trees and Shrubs

Easy Gardening: Artichokes

Easy Gardening: Asparagus

Easy Gardening: Cilantro

Easy Gardening: Cole Crops

Easy Gardening: Collard Greens

Easy Gardening: Cucumbers

Easy Gardening: Eggplant

Easy Gardening for Texas

Easy Gardening: Green Beans

Easy Gardening: Insect Control

Easy Gardening: Irish Potato

Easy Gardening: Melons

Easy Gardening: Onions

Easy Gardening: Peppers

Easy Gardening: Radishes

Easy Gardening: Rosemary

Easy Gardening: Spinach and Other Greens

Easy Gardening: Squash

Easy Gardening: Sweet Potatoes

Easy Gardening: Tomatillos

Easy Gardening: Tomatoes

Easy Gardening: Turnip and Mustard Greens

EHT-049 Crape Myrtle Scale

ENTO-033 How to select a bed bug control provider

ENTO-040 Mosquitoes and the Diseases they Transmit English

ENTO-050 Indoor flies

ENTO-092 Beneficials and Pests in the garden

Entomological Websites- updated Sep 2024

Emerald-ash-borer-in-texas

Entomology CDE Study Guide

EPS-011-common-external-parasites-in-backyard

ESC-031 Cinch Bugs

Fall Webworm

Fire Ant Spatial Information and Decision Support System – FASIDS

Fireant Control the Two Step Method and Other Approaches

Fireants

Fleas

Grape Variety Profile: Black Spanish

Grape Variety Profile: Muscadines

Grape Variety Profile: Tempranillo

Grape Variety Profile: Victoria Red

Grapevine Trunk Disease

Grasshoppers-and-their-control 2024

Grower Fact Sheet: Western Thrips

How to Select a Termite-Control Service

Indoor Flies and Their Control

Insect and Pest Control in Peaches, Plums and Blackberries in a Small Fruit Orchard

Insect Identification – Urban Entomology

Insect Orders

Insects, Pests and Diseases

Insect Phot Submission for Identification – Ask an Entomologist

Keys to Profitable Flax Production in Texas

Large Black Flower Beetle in Southern High Plains Homes

Latest fire ant control products 2024

Maintaining St. Augustinegrass Lawns

Managing Insect and Mite Pests in Vegetable Gardens

Managing Insect and Mite Pests in Texas Corn

Managing Insect Pests of Texas Sunflowers

Managing Pests

Mexican Honey Wasps

Monarchs-pollinators-of-Texas

Mosquitoes

Muhlgy Grass and Mealybug

Pecan Pests in the Home Orchard

Persimmons

Pest Control Toxicity Ratings of Products

Pests in Homes and Structures

Plant Insect Problems Diagnosis 

Public Health Pest Management Category Training Course

Scale Insects

Sesame Leafroller in Sesame

Snails and Slugs

Soil Solarization

Southwest Bugs

Spider Mites

Spotted Laternfly

Stink Bugs and Similar Insects

Tawny Crazy Ants: a Texas-Size Problem

Texas Home Vegetable Gardening Guide

Texas Vegetable Garden Insects Management Field Guide

Tick App Tool for Texas

Water Damage Restoration and Checklist

Weed, Insect and Disease Control in Turfgrass

What_Is_Integrated_Pest_Management?

Whitefly Management Guide for Horticultural Crops by Rafia A. Khan and Paul Winski

White Grubs in Texas Turf Grass

Wood-boring Insects of Trees and Shrubs

 

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Events

Events will be held at the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension-Aransas County office, 892 Airport Road, Rockport, 78382, 361-790-0103, unless otherwise noted. Overflow parking is next door at the county facilities. Feel free to bring your own brown bag lunch to any Brown Bag Event. Find the schedule HERE.

COME VISIT COASTAL OAKS DEMONSTRATION GARDEN

The demonstration garden, designed and maintained by the Master Gardeners, is open to the public Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. (closed holidays). As you approach the gardens, follow the signs and continue to the left corner of the fence where there is a small gate. This gate opens out only. Please be sure to close it if it does not close behind you.

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Handout Information and News Articles

Helpdesk Handouts

March 2025 PLANT SALE and How to Grt Through the Droubt by Virginia Easton-Smith 

January 2025 Strategies for Stage 3 Water Restrictions by Virginia Easton-Smith

December 2024 Plants Deer Might Ignore by Virginia Easton-Smith

November 2024 Sycronicity by Valerie Harbolovic

November 2024 NO NEED TO PRUNE PALMS by Ginger Easton Smith

October 2024 Snakes in the Grass (or Anywhere Else) by Mitze McBee

September 2024 Symposium News Release

September 2024 Smart Gardening Cuts Water Use as Population Increases by Maureen Crocker

August 2024 Time to Get Started on Your Fall Vegetable Garden by Ginger Easton Smith

August, 2024 What’s so good about O.M.? Everything by Ginger Easton-Smith

July 2023 Watering Container Plants in This Heat by Ginger Easton Smith

July 2024 What Trees Want by Ginger Easton Smith

 

Older News Articles go to the News Article Archive page.

Newsletters

 

Contact

Virginia Easton Smith
County Extension Agent
Aransas County Extension Office
892 Airport Road
Rockport, TX 78382-2744
Ph: 361-790-0103
F: 361-729-3937
aransas.agrilife.org

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