Rotating Vegetables Should Enhance Productivity
Warm season vegetables are beginning to replace cool season vegetables. Some types prefer to start earlier than others. A few might displace lingering predecessors...
Wildflowers On The Wild Side
UNITED STATES—Warm season annuals are more varied than cool season annuals for one simple reason. Spring and early summer are the best time for...
Warm Season Vegetables Start Early
UNITED STATES—Warm season annuals that are becoming more available in nurseries are a clue. As they become seasonal, so do warm season vegetables, or...
Warm Season Annuals Start Early
Cool season annuals that started late last summer should be finishing soon. A few might have potential to continue as perennials. However, about as...
Summery Bulbs After Spring Bulbs
UNITED STATES—Spring bulbs prefer an earlier start, and several appreciate a bit of winter chill. Summery bulbs, or summer bulbs or late bulbs, prefer...
Arboriculture Is Very Specialized Horticulture
UNITED STATES—Horticulture is as diversified as horticultural professionals. Nurserymen grow horticultural commodities. Landscape designers plan installation of the commodities into landscapes. Landscapers construct the...
Citrus Are Summery For Winter
UNITED STATES—Citrus trees are not like deciduous fruit trees. They are not marketable as bare root stock. They do not need winter pruning. Actually,...
Coppiced Vegetation Regenerates With Vigor
UNITED STATES—Winter dormancy has advantages. It facilitates acquisition and establishment of bare root stock, and winter dormant pruning. Coppicing and pollarding are the most...
Winter Pruning Deciduous Fruit Trees
UNITED STATES—Bare root season is synchronous with winter for one simple reason. Winter is when bare root stock is dormant. Dormancy similarly justifies winter...
Potted Christmas Trees Grow Up
UNITED STATES—There should be no stigma associated with cut Christmas trees. They grow on farms, not within natural ecosystems, as some believe. Like cut...