By Kathleen Cue, Nebraska Extension Horticulture Educator in Dodge County (7/20/2020)
Many spruce trees in the area are looking rough. Beyond the usual injury from spruce spider mites and Rhizosphaera needle cast, spruce trees have serious dieback, not only individual branches but in some cases, the top has died. Drooping clusters of brown needles and streaks of white sap on branches and trunk indicate freeze injury.
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By Kathleen Cue, Nebraska Extension Horticulture Educator in Dodge County (7/13/2020)
A recent brief rain burst, depositing just .2 of an inch in my rain gauge, put 12 gallons of water in my rain barrel. That’s the beauty of collecting rainwater from a roof—a small amount adds up quickly.
Kathleen Cue, Nebraska Extension Educator in Dodge County (Week of July 6, 2020)
The Nebraska Extension Horticulture, Landscape, and Environmental Systems team has put together and launched a new webpage. “Vegetable Gardening 101”is a how-to for new gardeners desiring to learn more about the challenges and rewards of gardening in Nebraska.
Housed on the Backyard Farmer website, “Vegetable Gardening 101” focuses on:
·selecting what vegetables to grow;
·choosing a good site to grow the garden;
·how to determine what size the garden should be;
·building the garden, whether it is a raised bed or in the ground;
·when to plant based on cool season or warm season vegetables;
By Kathleen Cue, Nebraska Extension Horticulture Educator (6/22/2020)
It’s been a good year for moles. A nice amount of rain keeps soils moist and workable—the perfect environment to enable mole movement as they “swim” through the soil. Many people approach the problem of moles by focusing on grubs—that if the grubs are gone, then moles won’t be in the lawn. Though not accurate, it leads to grub control measures that do little to minimize mole activity.
By Kathleen Cue, Nebraska Extension Horticulture Educator in Dodge County (6/15/2020)
Straw Foxglove
Unlike foxglove that are biennial, straw foxglove (Digitalis lutea) is a true perennial. The light yellow bell-shaped downward-facing flowers are smaller than their biennial relatives, but what is lost in flower size, straw foxglove makes up for in reliability and ease of growth.
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