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Gardening Tips: How to Prune Trees and Shrubs, Part Two
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Gardening Tips: How to Prune Trees and Shrubs, Part Two Last week I discussed some of the things that a gardener must consider in order to determine how to prune their trees and shrubs. This week we’ll discuss the types of pruning cuts, how to make them, and how each cut will affect the growth of the plant. There are five basic types of pruning cut: pinching, heading back, thinning, renewal pruning,
Gardening Tips: How to Prune Trees and Shrubs, Part Two
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Gardening Tips: How to Prune Trees and Shrubs, Part Two Last week I discussed some of the things that a gardener must consider in order to determine how to prune their trees and shrubs. This week we’ll discuss the types of pruning cuts, how to make them, and how each cut will affect the growth of the plant. There are five basic types of pruning cut: pinching, heading back, thinning, renewal pruning,
Gardening Tips: February Question and Answer
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Gardening Tips: February Question and AnswerQ: When is the best time to put down a pre-emergent herbicide for crabgrass control?A: The best way to control crabgrass and other summer annual weeds is by using what is called a pre-emergent herbicide. A pre-emergent herbicide prevents the weed seeds from germinating, effectively preventing them from coming up. This is the most
Nutrition and Cataracts
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Cataracts are a leading cause of visual impairment among aging Americans and a key quality of life issue. Cataract extractions are the most common surgical procedure performed in the U.S., accounting for more than two million procedures each year. Experts have theorized that if the progression of cataracts could be delayed by 10 years, the number of cataract surgeries per year would be reduced by 45 percent. Nutrition is one promising means of preventing or
ECA Split-the-Pot drawing
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Halifax County ECA is sponsoring a “Split-the-Pot” drawing. Proceeds will be used to help with the upkeep of the Farmhouse at the Rural Life Center.Drawing to be held May 21, 2008 at the quarterly ECA Area Meeting. Winner does not have to be present to win. For tickets contact any ECA member or call the Extension office and ask for Margaret Allsbrook at 583-5161.
Gardening Tips: Is it Spring Yet?
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Gardening Tips: Is it Spring Yet?If you are like me, the warmer days of spring have you eager to work in the garden. Garden centers and the big box stores have started getting in shipments of trees, shrubs, perennials, annuals, and vegetables and its hard to resist the urge to start planting. Many of these items are safe to plant now, but we are not past the threat of frost making some things, particularly
Gardening Tips: Is it Spring Yet?
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Gardening Tips: Is it Spring Yet?If you are like me, the warmer days of spring have you eager to work in the garden. Garden centers and the big box stores have started getting in shipments of trees, shrubs, perennials, annuals, and vegetables and its hard to resist the urge to start planting. Many of these items are safe to plant now, but we are not past the threat of frost making some things, particularly
Gardening Tips: Controlling Eastern Tent Caterpillars
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Gardening Tips: Controlling Eastern Tent Caterpillars This past week I noticed one of the annual signs that spring has arrived- Eastern tent caterpillars. Eastern tent caterpillars are the insects you see this time of year forming silk webbings on cherry, apple, and crabapple trees, as well as some others. The caterpillars emerge from eggs laid the previous year, and spin a silk webbing in the crotches of tree branches (where the branch meets the
Gardening Tips: Controlling Eastern Tent Caterpillars
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Gardening Tips: Controlling Eastern Tent Caterpillars This past week I noticed one of the annual signs that spring has arrived- Eastern tent caterpillars. Eastern tent caterpillars are the insects you see this time of year forming silk webbings on cherry, apple, and crabapple trees, as well as some others. The caterpillars emerge from eggs laid the previous year, and spin a silk webbing in the crotches of tree branches (where the branch meets the
Gardening Tips: Controlling Eastern Tent Caterpillars
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Gardening Tips: Controlling Eastern Tent Caterpillars This past week I noticed one of the annual signs that spring has arrived- Eastern tent caterpillars. Eastern tent caterpillars are the insects you see this time of year forming silk webbings on cherry, apple, and crabapple trees, as well as some others. The caterpillars emerge from eggs laid the previous year, and spin a silk webbing in the crotches of tree branches (where the branch meets the