Horticulture Hints
Want to polish your green thumb? Horticulture Hints offers gardening tips, checklists, events and useful gardening information that can help you become a better gardener. Get the latest issue for your region today! Download or subscribe at https://tinyurl.com/y3b45hzf
Want to polish your green thumb? Horticulture Hints offers gardening tips, checklists, events and useful gardening information that can help you become a better gardener. Get the latest issue for your region today! Download or subscribe at https://tinyurl.com/y3b45hzf
Written by Gary Stockton, Singh, Raghuwinder, Strahan, Ronald E., Wilson, Mark, Monzingo, John, Fontenot, Kathryn, Kirk-Ballard, Heather for the Northwest Region.
Looking for information on Armyworms in your lawn or Planting Autumn Alliums, Plants That Add Variety to Your Garden and Flavor to Your Kitchen?
Look here for a checklist for September, October, and November. Find out of about fall annuals and fall vegetable gardening!
It is a great resource!
Looking for information on Armyworms in your lawn or Planting Autumn Alliums, Plants That Add Variety to Your Garden and Flavor to Your Kitchen?
Look here for a checklist for September, October, and November. Find out of about fall annuals and fall vegetable gardening!
It is a great resource!
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The LSU AgCenter recommends planting Louisiana Super Plants to brighten up your cool-season landscape
Now is the time to plant cool-season color in Louisiana landscapes. Louisiana Super Plants are rigorously tested to ensure a top-quality plant for your home garden... Winter Protection of Landscape Plant Materials Freezing temperatures can be very harmful to many of our landscape plants. However, there are a few steps you can take to help protect your garden from a freeze. Also in this Winter issue... Gardening in the Winter Create a Festive Wreath With Local Plants Fruits Jujube and Loquat: Two Uncommon Fruit Crops for Louisiana Winter Turfgrass Management Bleak Time for Turfgrasses Begins in December Citrus Canker Download Horticulture Hints Winter 2018pdf / 12.71MBPublication ID: |
Supertunia Vista BubblegumSupertunia Vista Bubblegum is a vigorous petunia with a 3-foot spread at maturity. It can grow 16 to 24 inches tall. Plant these petunias in full sun in well-drained soil. Petunias prefer an acidic soil in the pH range of 5.5 to 6.5. A mulch of pine straw improves the appearance of the landscape bed and minimizes upward splashing of water from irrigation while helping with weed control.
When mass-planted in the landscape bed, it is best to plant the petunias on 18-inch centers. This petunia works equally well in containers and hanging baskets where the flowering branches and shoots can cascade over the edge — a truly spectacular “spiller” plant. Always plant the transplants at the original cell pack or pot depth. You mostly see Supertunia Vista Bubblegum for sale in 6-inch pots at garden centers. There is always confusion about the best time to plant petunias in the landscape. In Louisiana, petunias do well when planted in the fall from September through early November and in late winter and early spring from early February through mid-March. A fall planting of petunias will normally overwinter well and provide blooms until late May. Late winter- and early spring-planted petunias normally last only until early June, but if the weather cooperates, the more heat-tolerant petunias — like Supertunia Vista Bubblegum — can be oversummered successfully. Supertunia Vista Bubblegum is self-cleaning of old flowers. Deadheading (removal of old flowers) is not needed to maintain continued bloom, but a light pruning after each bloom flush is recommended. Early morning watering is best for petunias and other bedding plants. With the vigorous growth habit of these petunias, you may need to pay more attention to water demands of container-grown plants. |
Winter Turfgrass ManagementBleak Time for Turfgrasses Begins in December December begins a bleak time for warm-season turfgrasses. Most lawns should be dormant or at least close to this stage by Christmas. Because lawns are not actively growing, fertilizer applications are not needed during the winter. Actually, you should have stopped nitrogen fertilization on home lawns by late summer — late August to very early September for St. Augustine grass and centipedegrass.
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LSU AgCenter Soil TestingStart with the soil. Don’t guess, soil test. The LSU AgCenter Soil Testing Lab can eliminate the guesswork and reveal exactly how much fertilizer, lime or sulfur is needed for specific plants to be grown in a particular type of soil. If your plants get sick, accurate and rapid diagnosis of the problem is important for selecting the best management practices at the most effective time. The LSU AgCenter Plant Diagnostic Center can help.
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