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Horticulture for Central Texas

Williamson County Tree Selection Guides

  • Landscape Tree Selection and Planting Guide for Williamson County TX
  • Fruit & Nut Tree Selection & Planting Guide for Williamson County TX
  • Texas Tree Selector Guide

Williamson County Vegetable Guides

  • Williamson County Vegetable Planting Guide
  • Vegetable Varieties for Central Texas
  • Aggie Horticulture Vegetable Easy Gardening Series
  • Master Gardener Vegetable Resource QR Sheet

Central Texas, Native and Adaptive Landscape Plants Guide

  • Native and Adapted Landscape Plants for Central Texas, rev 2016

Master Gardener Trials and Reports

  • 2018 Broccoli and Carrot Trials
  • 2014 WCMG tomato production report

Vegetable Demonstration Garden Planting History Chart
2015 to Summer 2020

  • Demonstration Garden Planting History

Lawn

  • St Augustine Lawn Management Guide
  • St. Augustine Management Calendar Guide
  • Bermudagrass Varieties, Hybrids, and Blends for Texas
  • Turfgrass Selection for Texas
  • Keep Your Lawn Alive During Drought
  • Maintaining Bermudagrass Lawns
  • Take-All Root Rot

Cactus and Succulents

  • Cold Hardy Cacti & Succulents
  • Cacti & Succulent Care Sheet

Chickens for the Garden

  • Chickens and the Garden
  • Getting your Chicks

Fruits

  • Citrus in Central Texas
  • Chilling Accumulation and its Importance
  • Growing Olives
  • Homeowners Fruit and Nut Spray Schedule
  • Earth-Kind Practices for Home Orchards

Grow Green Fact Sheets, Pests, Landscapes, Lawn, etc.

  • http://austintexas.gov/page/grow-green-fact-sheets

Hardiness Zones

  • USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map

Herbs

  • Growing Herbs in Texas
  • E-561 Growing Herbs in Texas
  • Herbs for the Upper Gulf Coast of Texas
  • Medicinal Herbs

Insects

Insect Identification Resources

  • Acrobat Ants Feb 2018
  • Ants vs termites Feb 2022
  • Aphids in Texas Landscapes
  • Aphids- May 2016
  • Asian giant hornets May 2020
  • Backyard bug habitats Sep18
  • Boxelder Bugs Jan 2021
  • Butterflies and Monarch Resources
    • Butterfly Plants of Zilker Botanical Garden 5-9-16
    • Fall Pollinator Plants for the Austin Area 5-9-16
    • Plants for Butterfly and Pollinator Gardens 5-9-16
    • monarchs-oe-parasite-oct-2016
  • Cactus coreids- June 2022
  • Centipedes and Millipedes
  • Cicada killer wasps- July 2022
  • Chiggers- August 2022
  • Cochineal scale insect on Prickly Pear Cactus- Aug16
  • Conserving pollinators Feb 2020
  • Common Caterpillar Pests
  • Control Those Ticks
  • Crane flies Feb 2017
  • Cycad scale April 2017
  • Emerald ash borer Feb 2019
  • Fall Armyworms Aug 2021
  • Fall webworms Jun 2019
  • Field crickets Oct 2019
  • Fire Ant Control
  • Fire Ant Experiment 3/2019 WCMG Summary and Results
  • Fireflies May 2017
  • Fleas- July 2016
  • Floodwater mosquitoes- September 2022
  • Grasshoppers- April 2016 Wizzie Brown
  • Green Lacewings Jan18  Wizzie Brown
  • Glassy Winged Sharpshooters Apr 2018 Wizzie Brown
  • Harlequin bugs Mar 2019
  • Hornworms May 2018
  • Kern’s Flower beetles- May 2022
  • Larger Canna Leafroller Sep17 Wizzie Brown
  • Lacebugs July 2017
  • Leaf cutter ants- Jan 2016 Wizzie Brown
  • Leaffooted bugs May 2021
  • Mason bees March 2020
  • Mexican honey wasps Sep 2020
  • Monarch Migration Aug 2019
  • Mosquito Control Tips – May 2015
  • Mosquito repellents June 2021
  • Mosquito repellents Oct18
  • Oleander aphids May 2019
  • Outdoor cockroaches Nov 2017
  • Overwintering insects- Dec 2016
  • Plant damage Aug 2020
  • Praying Mantids June 2020
  • Providing water for insects July 2020
  • Robber Flies – Good Insects in the Garden-June 2018
  • Rover ants Jan 2019
  • Scorpions- Nov 2015
  • Snout butterflies Aug18
  • Spider mites Aug17
  • Squash bugs March 2017 Wizzie Brown
  • Stink bugs- July 2015
  • Termites-Subterranean
  • Termites in the landscape March 2018
  • Thrips July 2018
  • Vegetable Pests
  • Wasps
  • Wasps Paper-sep 2016
  • What is Molting Dec 2017
  • Whiteflies Jan 2017
  • Widow spiders Oct2017 Wizzie Brown
  • Widow spiders Nov 2020
  • Wood-boring Insects
  • Yucca plant bugs Jul 2019
  • Yellowjackets- August 2015
  • Zika virus and Mosquito- Feb16

Insect Control

  • How do horticultural oils work June 2017

Invasive Plants and Species

  • Armadillo
  • Central Texas Invasive Plants
  • Common Invasive Plants
  • Invasive Species
  • Malta Star Thistle 5-2016
  • Tawny crazy ants- Oct15

Landscape

  • 12 Step Landscape Design
  • AgriLife Extension Office Landscape Map
  • Christmas Plant Care Poinsetta-Cacti-Trees
  • Cool Season Annuals
  • Deer-Resistant Plants
  • Recommended Landscape Plants for Williamson County
  • Xeriscaping
  • Salvia Database
  • Salvia Salvation
  • Butterfly host plants
  • Year Round Color with Native Plants
  • Bloom Graph for Native Plants

Oak Wilt

  • Does Your Tree Have Oak Wilt & Other FAQ?
  • Oak Wilt Booklet
  • Oak Wilt Brochure

Propagating Plants

  • Stem Cuttings Propagation
  • Propagation–Leaf cuttings of African Violets
  • Plant Propagation—Roses—Soda Bottle Propagation

Rainwater Harvesting

  • Rainwater Harvesting

Roses

  • Common Rose Diseases
  • Rose Rosette Disease
  • Success With Bare-Root Roses in Central Texas

Snakes

  • Snakes and Their Control
  • Venomous Snakes

Soil

  • Building Good Soil
  • How to Collect a Soil Sample
  • Managing Soil Tilth
  • Soils-From the Ground UP
  • COMPOST 6 ways to compost

Trees

  • What to do with trees recovering from winter storm URI 2021
  • Crape myrtle bark scale Apr 2020
  • Find a local Certified Texas Arborist
  • Emerald ash borer in Texas- Jun3 2016
  • Keys to Diseases of Oaks in Landscape
  • Tree Care After a Storm
  • Winter Tree Care
  • Walnut Caterpillar Concerns for Pecan Growers
  • Crape Mrytle Bark ScaleEHT-049

Tool Care & Sharpening Videos

  • A Master Gardner explains how to Sharpen Pruning Shears
  • Sharpening Garden Shears – with Paul Sellers
  • Sharpen gardening tools – no power tools needed

Vegetables

  • April-May Onion and Garlic Tips
  • Home Vegetable Guide
  • Raised Bed Garden
  • Vegetable Gardening in Containers
  • Fall Vegetable Gardening, Texas Style
  • Spring Vegetable Gardening Tips
  • 10 Tips for a Successful Vegetable Garden
  • Vegetable Seed Sources
  • Aggie Horticulture Vegetable Easy Gardening Series

 

 

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Help Desk & Contact Information

Williamson County Help Desk Email: williamsonhelpdesk@agnet.tamu.edu 

Williamson County Help Desk Phone:
512-943-3300

Williamson County Master Gardener Website: https://txmg.org/williamson/

Williamson County Demonstration Gardens
3151 SE Inner loop Road, Georgetown, Texas 78626.  The gardens are open to the public. They are located to the right (north side) of the Williamson County Road District Building.

Williamson County Extension Office
100 Wilco Way, Suite AG201
Georgetown, Texas 78626
Phone: 512-943-3300
Fax: 512-943-3301
Web: https://williamson.agrilife.org/
Email: williamson-tx@tamu.edu

 

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