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Continue reading →: Good Bugs, Bad Bugs
Have you ever seen some small problem on a plant in your garden and ignored it, figuring that it would probably go away if left alone? That has definitely been my attitude toward insects in the Demo Garden so far this spring. (The only exception is when I found whiteflies…
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Continue reading →: Don’t Forget Our Garden Tour!
The Beckmeyer Garden is gorgeous! This photo was from the Beckmeyer’s Garden last year. Just a reminder that the Sedgwick County Extension Master Gardeners annual Garden Tours are being held this weekend! There are 7 great gardens available to tour for only $10. There will also be a CD with…
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Continue reading →: Today in the Garden
We had another busy day in the garden this morning, despite the overcast sky and chilly wind. We harvested some more salad. We pulled the last of the radishes, harvested all the corn salad (mache), harvested the little bit of good spinach and pulled the rest, and harvested the mesclun…
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Continue reading →: What’s Eating the Spinach?
I don’t know how your gardens are looking, but the spinach here in the Demo Garden is looking pretty sad. It is rather yellow-colored, especially the older leaves. The new leaves are just getting chewed to bits by some unknown pest. The yellowing is easy to diagnose. The poor spinach…
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Continue reading →: Blooming in the Garden
Things have really popped in the garden over the weekend. Lot’s of things are starting to bloom, and the garden really is beautiful. The blackberries are just past full bloom. We aren’t going to have a huge blackberry harvest, but still a few fruit. The garden sage is showing off…