By Kathleen Cue, Nebraska Extension Horticulture Educator in Dodge County (Week of September 20, 2021)
Snails and slugs are noted for their voracious appetites, eating holes in the leaves of hosta (their preferred food) but also munching on roses, ferns, impatiens, begonias, and fruits, including strawberries and tomatoes. You may not see the actual snails and slugs themselves since they prefer to feed at night or on cloudy days, but if you see holes AND their silvery slime trails, these guys are making themselves at home. Typically, snails and slugs prefer to slime their way to the center of leaves where they will eat holes between leaf veins. Sometimes they eat their way inward from leaf edges.
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By Kathleen Cue, Nebraska Extension Horticulture Educator in Dodge County (Week of September 6, 2021)
Dakota-Thurston County Ambassador Application - Due October 1st to Dakota County
By Kathleen Cue, Nebraska Extension Horticulture Educator (Week of August 30, 2021)
With September upon us, it’s time to think about tree planting. If tree selection is on your to do list, putting the effort and time into researching what trees to plant pays off in a tree canopy that nets long term benefits in shade, beauty, soil stabilization, and stormwater mitigation.
Kathleen Cue, Nebraska Extension Horticulture Educator in Dodge County (Week of August 23, 2021)
This is the season of vegetable abundance and while it would be great if our most pressing concern involved harvest, instead we find vegetable pests are an ongoing problem.
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In honor of National Potato Day, let’s pay homage to the spud. Here are some things to know about potatoes and potato plants:
•There are blue, white, and gold-fleshed potatoes, as well as round ones, oblong ones, lumpy ones, and fingerlings. Skin colors are red, russet, blue, and golden.
•Seed potatoes should be certified disease-free to prevent transfer of diseases to new crops and contaminating the soil. Late blight, Phytopthora infestans, will long live in infamy as the pathogen that set into motion the Irish potato famine. The fungal spores of late blight and other pathogens can persist in soil for many years, affecting the health of future potatoes planted there.
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