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Horticulture Resources

Newsletter sign-up – join one or both:

  • Concho Valley Horticulture Update – Monthly e-newsletter on landscaping and gardening
  • Pecan List – PNC pest alert and pecan show announcement – one email per year

Currently Highlighted Resources:

Soil Solarization information

Homeowner’s Guide to Lawn Herbicides

Horticulture Information and Publications:

Vegetables

  • Vegetable Planting Chart – by month
  • Container Vegetable Gardening
  • Urban Vegetable Gardening guide
  • Harvesting and Handling Vegetables
  • Strawberry Growing Guide
  • Controlling Insect and Mite Pests in Vegetable Gardens
  • Easy Gardening – Insect Control

Fruit and nuts

  • Recommended Fruits & Nut Varieties for Tom Green
  •  West Texas Pecan Management
  • Controlling Insect and Mite Pests of Pecan Trees
  • Controlling the Pecan Weevil
  • Controlling the Pecan Nut Casebearer

Lawn

  • Controlling Khakiweed
  • Bermudagrass Management Guide
  • St. Augustine Turf Management Guide
  • St. Augustine Home Lawn Maintenance Calendar
  • Establishing Turfgrass
  • Lawn Fertilization
  • Take-All Root Rot of Lawns
  • Controlling White Grubs in the Lawn
  • Pre-Emergence Herbicides for the Home Lawn

General Landscape

  • Recommended Landscape Plants
  • Landscaping with Native Plants
  • Aphids in Texas Landscapes
  • Earth-Kind – Integrated Pest Management Intro

Pest Control

  • Grasshoppers and Their Control – Extension Factsheet
  • CityBugs Blog – Grasshopper Control
  • DIY Backyard Mosquito Control – Extension Factsheet
  • Preventing Ticks
  • Controlling Fleas
  • Armyworms – Insects in the City blog
  • Armyworms – AggieTurf

Water Conservation

  • Gray Water Use in Texas
  • Gray Water Safety
  • Water Wise Checklist for Turf in Summer

Miscellaneous

  • Bee Friendly Plants List
  • Bee Removal Resources
  • How to Make a Rain Barrel
  • Collecting and Storing Wildflower Seeds
  • Protecting Plants from Frosts and Freezes

 

 

 

 

 

 

Resources

  • Allison’s Horticulture Updates
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