Tag Archives: horticulture

FREEZE AND FROST

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Protecting Plants During a Freeze Stephen Brueggerhoff, CEA – Horticulture; Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service 12/08/2020 December’s cool weather is always welcome like an old friend that briefly visits for a few months, reminding that we have thick layers of fabric in reserve to ward off the bite of frost or sustained freezes from less-than fair weather guests. Understanding types of cool weather events is key to properly dressing up our plants in just the right fashion for adequate protection. I have adapted an article written by AgriLife… Read More →

Indoor Gardening Series – Gardening Indoors – Facebook Live Presentation

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Angleton Recreation Center Indoor Gardening Series. Sponsored by City of Angleton Parks and Recreation Department. Starting October 7, a four part series for indoor gardening, featuring container gardening, fall and winter veggies, herbs and ending with fairy garden terrariums. Read More →

Citrus Leaves Looking Bad: Asian Citrus Leaf Miner

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There are many reasons to love gardening along the Texas Gulf Coast, one being the ability to successfully grow a variety of citrus trees in our landscape. Urban gardeners to small-scale orchard operators in Brazoria County have natural resources of temperate weather and access to full sun to entice sun-colored fragrant fruit from their trees. Citrus is a general term for fruit that includes the familiar lemon, key and persian lime, the unusual thick-skinned citron, the delectable sweet orange, easy to peel tangerine, huge pomelo, grape-sized kumquat and… Read More →

Say No to Volcano Mulching

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There are great benefits to applying mulch to bare areas around your yard and landscape, and I want to bring your attention to one curious mulching practice.  You may have noticed mulch piled up around trees in a formation that looks like a science experiment gone wrong, a kind of Vesuvian affliction that those in the horticulture trade call volcano mulching. This is a method where landscape company crews or homeowners apply mulch in a mound up against the bark and directly at the base of a tree,… Read More →