Pre-Pruning Fruit Trees
Why do we pre-prune our bare root fruit trees? What can possibly be beneficial in shipping a tree this way? Elmer explains all in this [read more]
When it’s been a weird winter…
We can’t control the weather, despite how much we’d all really like to!
Winter Warmth & Drought
Some areas may experience drought conditions in the winter (little to no rain), but as long as a thorough watering was applied to new trees at planting time, you should not need to worry about watering your dormant outdoor trees in winter.
If your best judgment suspects that the conditions are [read more]
An American Thanksgiving
photo - wayne's eye view
[Guest post by Andrew Odom]
It has been a number of years since the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag gathered to celebrate the colony’s first successful harvest. In fact, it has been 391 years as best we can tell. And while our modern celebrations are as much about Macy’s department store and Stovetop stuffing, there are still dots on our landscape that take this one day of the year to truly give thanks for their homes, their crops, their families… their harvest.
Within ten months of landing on Plymouth Rock, the [read more]
10K Missouri Gardens
Show your Missouri Garden Pride in the 10,000 Garden Challenge! Since April 2011, the Missouri Department of Agriculture has been working hard to get 10,000 Missourians committed to growing a garden. And you can help, whether you grow fruit, flowers, vegetables, natives, or ornamentals. [read more]
