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2017 Gardening With Chuck

December 25-31, 2017
What To Do With The Christmas Tree
Landscaping Maturity
How Does Winter Damage Happen?
A Gardener's New Year's Resolution
December 18-24, 2017
Holiday Cactus
What To Do With Fruits And Nuts At The Holidays
Firewood All Has The Same Heat Output
Deicers And Vegetation
Merry Christmas
December 11-17, 2017
Water Those Evergreens
Controlling Volunteer Trees
Can You Save And Use Old Garden Seed?
Preventing Mouse And Vole Damage To Trees
Hollies In Kansas
December 4-10, 2017
Dormant Turfgrass Seeding
Till Gardens and Flowerbeds Now
Compost Pile Maintenance
Poor Drainage or Excess Drainage
Excess Drainage In Landscapes
November 27- December 3, 2017
Poinsettia Care
Is A Poinsettia Poisonous?
Winterizing Strawberries
Christmas Greenery
What NOT To Put In Your Garden Soil
November 20-26, 2017
Bush Honeysuckle Control
Rose Mulching
Water Landscape Plants
High pH Soils
Selecting A Christmas Tree
November 13-19, 2017
Winterizing The Yard
Composition of Natural Fertilizers
Lots of Henbit This Fall
Direct Application of Organic Materials
Horseradish Processing Time
November 6-12, 2017
Planting Spring Bulbs
Leave The Leaves
Clean Up Those Iris Beds
Putting Small Engines Away For Winter
Why Herbicide Applications Fail
October 30-November 5, 2017
None due to elections
October 23-29, 2017
Time To Stop Planting Grass
Miscellaneous Insect Issues
Why Till Your Garden In The Fall
Late Harvesting Of Sweet Potatoes
Winter Storage of Summer Bulbs
October 16-22, 2017
Fall Planting Of Trees
Perennial Weed Control In The Fall
Controlling Poison Ivy In The Fall
Tree & Shrub Pruning In The Fall
Garden Soil Testing In The Fall
October 9-15, 2017
Forcing Bulbs
Poinsettias
Letting Turf Grow Tall In The Fall
Why Those Fall Fertilizations Are So Important
Why We Control Weeds When We Do
October 2-8, 2017
Getting Ready For Garlic Season
Ornamental Grasses
Sunscald on Young Trees
Bringing Plants Inside For Winter
Fall Weed Control in Lawns
September 25- October 1, 2017
Moles
Lady Beetles
Twig Girdlers
Seed Corn Beetles and Green Cloverworm Moths
Time To Start Planting Spring Flowering Bulbs
September 18-24, 2017
Is Leaf Drop Early?
Dust It In and Pray For Rain
Water Landscape Plants
Harvesting Sweet Potatoes
Insect Population Explosions
September 11-17, 2017
Redbud Leaf Folder
Not All Thistles Are Bad
Ash Leaf Diseases
Lace Bugs and Psyllids
Time To Apply Little Barley Control
September 4-10, 2017
Webworms
Peonies
Time To Plant The Grass
Power Raking vs Core Aeration
Pokeweed vs Elderberry
August 28- September 3, 2017
Give Those Cool Season Grasses A Boost
Dead Lilac Canes
Dividing Daylilies
Controlling Vines in the Landscape
Can I Eat Those Crabapples
August 21-27, 2017
Unusual Bloomers
Mosquitoes and Chiggers
Bagworms
What Grass Should I Plant?
Needles and Leaf Drop
August 14-20, 2017
Mushrooms
Cicada Killers
Ornamental Pear Issues
Be Careful With Stump Killers
Managing Rainfall With Vegetation
August 7-13, 2017
Soil Testing Gadgets
Late Season Crabgrass
Pesticide Failures
Green June Beetles or Japanese Beetles
Late Season Garden Planting
July 31-August 6, 2017
August Garden Planting
Renovating Bermudagrass
Prepping for Lawn Planting
Wilting Plants
Walnut Caterpillars
July 24-30, 2017
Plan Now For Garlic Production
Trees & Wind & Ice
Rabbits
Grubs
Ground Beetles
July 17-23, 2017
Green June Beetles
All Plant, No Fruit
Walnut Toxicity
Brown Patch of Lawns
Feeding Hummingbirds
July 10-16, 2017
Bagworms
Bacterial Blight of Cucumbers
Blossom End Rot - In depth
Onion Harvest & Storage
Squash Blooms But No Fruit
July 3-9, 2017
Blossom End Rot, Part II
Blister Beetles
Dutch Elm Disease
Japanese Beetles
Start Planning for Fall Gardens
June 26-July 2, 2017
Millipedes
Tomato Leaf Spots
Squash Bugs
Tomato Hornworms
Trees Losing Leaves?
June 19-25, 2017
Summer Lawn Care - Irrigation
Summer Lawn Care - Mowing
Slime Molds
Go Easy on Fertilizing the Tomatoes
Fruit Thinning
June 12-18, 2017
Little Barley
Hilling Potatoes and Fertilizing Onions
Spring Flowering Bulbs
Deadheading
Tree Sprouts
June 5-11, 2017
Winterkill
Crabgrass Killers
Tomato Leaf Woes
Euonymous Scale
Time to Start Treating Bagworms
May 29-June 4, 2017
Puncturevine Control
Carpenter Bees
Fertilizing Warm Season Grasses
Straw Bale Gardening
Mulching Tomatoes
May 22-28, 2017
Sandbur Control
Bagworms
Mosquitoes
Do Bug Zappers Work?
Post Blooming Peony Care
May 15-21, 2017
Warm Season Garden Crops
Poison Ivy
Nutsedge Control
Anthracnose
Prune Spring Flowering Shrubs
May 8-14, 2017
Mow Tall, Stay Sharp!
Blackspot of Roses
Poison Hemlock Control
Peach Leaf Curl
Mushrooms!
May 1-7, 2017
Cold Temperatures
Will We Have A Fruit Crop
Mesotrione
Bindweed Control
Sweet Corn Primer
April 24-30, 2017
Pine Sawfly
Garden Calendar
Tree Trimming Scam
Poison Ivy
Flower Planting Calendar
April 17-23, 2017
Weed Control in Strawberries
Wild Violet Control in Lawns
Roundup for Lawns
Ash/Lilac Borer
Do I have to have a perfect lawn?
April 10-16, 2017
Orchardgrass Explosion
Star of Bethlehem
Cedar Apple Rust
Take it easy with the lawnmowers
Henbit and Chickweed
April 3-9, 2017
Wasps in the House?
Early Spring Garlic Management
Time for Crabgrass Preventers?
Flowering Crabapples
Things that we think, that just aren't so!
March 27-April 2, 2017
Gardening Season has Finally Arrived
Shady Turf
Henbit
What's That Tree?
Onion Confusion
March 20-26, 2017
How Much Freeze Damage Was There?
Fruit Tree Strays
Asparagus Bed Management
Eastern Tent Caterpillars
Tree Planting Rules
March 13-19, 2017
Rhubarb
Potato Planting Time!
Pruning Fruit Trees
Cut Back Ornamental Grasses
Squash Bugs
March 6-12, 2017
Dormant Season Turf Seeding
Moles
Growing Blueberries
Iris Leaf Spot and Peony Measles
Ladybugs, Round 2
February 27-March 5, 2017
The Myth of Epsom Salts
Weather Impacts
Soil Temperatures & Vegetables
Understanding the Needs of the Plant
Deal With the Itch by Planting Peas
February 20-26, 2017
Fertilize Spring Flowering Bulbs Now
Preparing for Asparagus Planting
Too Early to be on Lawns
Hophornbeam
Soil Testing
February 13-19, 2017
Dealing with Valentine's Day Flowers
Peach Leaf Curl
Pruning Young Fruit Trees
Pruning Fruit Trees
How About a Native Fruit Tree?
February 6-12, 2017
What are meant by indeterminate tomatoes?
Catalpa Trees are Often Overlooked
Late Winter Lawn Care
Raise the Ceiling or Lower the Floor
Poisonous Plants
January 30-February 5, 2017
Starting Your own Transplants
Are There Any Transplants I can Start Now?
What Kind of Tomato Should I Plant?
Cloning Apple Trees
My Garden Didn't Do Well Last Year
January 23-29, 2017
How Early Can You Start Gardening
Shumard Oak
Starting Onions from Seed
How NOT to Grow a Good Tree
Disease Resistant American Elms
January 16-22, 2017
Ice Damage to Trees
Caddo Sugar Maple
Indoor lighting for gardeners
All America Selections - Vegetables
All America Selections - Flowers
January 9-15, 2017
Are heirloom varieties the answer?!
Impact of Cold Weather on Insects
How Do Plants Survive Cold Weather
Ginko Trees
The Problem with Catalogs and Web Pages
January 2-8, 2017
Happy New Year!
Bird Feeding Part 1
Bird Feeding Part 2
Garden Shows Are on the Horizon
Investigate Drip Irrigation
December 26, 2016 - January 1, 2017
Time to Start Un-Decorating
What are Dormant Oils & When do you Use Them
Are All Tree Species the Same for Firewood
Consider Some New Veggies
A Gardener's New Year's Resolution