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Groundcovers and Lawns: After a tough summer, what do you need to do to revive that sun-scorched turf? First, take a look at your fertilization schedule. Remember that cool-season lawns need fertilizer when temperatures are cooler (i.e. spring and fall). In fact, if you can only fertilize once a year – do it in the fall. [...] The University of Tennessee Extension turns 100 years old this year, and to celebrate that milestone, the Hamilton County Extension office is hosting an Open House Centennial Celebration on Friday, October 8 from 1 pm to 4 pm at the J. Merle Crawley Agricultural Center, 6183 Adamson Circle (just off Bonny Oaks Drive). Events [...] The Cumberland Master Gardeners invite you to come to the Fall Gardeners’ Festival on Tuesday, August 31 at the Plateau Discovery Gardens within the UT Plateau Research and Education Center, 320 Experiment Station Road, Crossville starting at 10 am and concluding at 4 pm CDT. The Festival is open to the public and is free. Sessions [...] Have your tomatoes and other summer crops let you down by failing to produce anything but caterpillars and dead or moldy leaves? Do you get a sad feeling when you look at your vegetable garden in its parched and sun-scorched state? It may be time to pull out your spring and summer garden and prepare [...] To Prune or Not to Prune 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 [...] 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 [...] At this time of year, you are probably seeing those tell-tale shredded flowers and skeletonized leaves. Upon closer inspection, it’s confirmed — the Japanese Beetles (Popillia japonica) are back and busy eating and mating in preparation for next year’s invasion. And you know that when you see one or two, you’ll likely see hundreds in [...] This past weekend, nearly 400 people enjoyed the Chattanooga Area Food Bank’s 23rd annual Garden Tour that took visitors through the private gardens of Jerry and Donna Smolinski, Mike and Stephanie Payne, Janet Wasetis, and Michael and Dawn Edens as well as the Portera Herb and Sculpture Garden in the Bluff View Art [...] |
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