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To Prune or Not to Prune At this time of year, hydrangea blossoms are fading and the plants can look “leggy” and even spindly. The UT Extension agents passed along an informative post written by Ken Tilt of Auburn University on pruning hydrangeas in mid-summer. You can read the full post here. The bottom line is, [...] Title: 19th Annual Urban Forestry Conference * Learn about new sustainability initiatives Affordable pricing puts the conference within [...] Title: Hamilton County Farm Tour The 2010 Farm Tour will be held Thursday, July 29. Registration for the event starts at 8:15 am and the bus will leave promptly at 9:00 am from the J. Merle Crawley Agriculture Service Center, 6183 Adamson Circle. The cost is $5.00 and includes lunch and [...] The Native Plants and Wildflower group is pleased to announce that Dennis Horn will be the speaker at the August 2 meeting to talk about Tennessee wildflowers. The meeting will be held at the Ag Center (see map below) and the presentation will begin promptly at 6:30 pm. Dennis Horn is the lead author of the [...] At this time of year, the refreshing warmth of spring has given way to the constant heat and humidity of summer in the South. And although the air is humid, we can go for weeks without significant rain, making the temptation to use sprinklers hard to resist. And, many of our insect pests are in [...] Title: 2010 County Fair Build Day In part 2 of this tomatoes series, there are other tomato fruit problems that have nothing to do with fungus, bacteria or other diseases. Some are avoidable by following recommendations in the UT Extension publication on tomato gardening. The good news is while your tomatoes won’t look ready to sell at market or win a [...] It’s July and you’ve been anticipating for months your harvest of plump red (yellow, orange, pink, zebra, purple) tomatoes from the tomato plants you’ve been tending since April’s last frost date. Now you watch with dismay as your once lush tomato leaves shrivel and fruit drop off or rot on the vines. What happened? Is [...] |
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