Agriculture / Horticulture
Time to grow cool season bedding plants
November is a great time to remove summer bedding plants and add cool-season bedding plants to your flowerbeds. […]
Articles by Dan Gill
Agriculture / Horticulture
Get It Growing: Landscapes require never-ending planning
Landscapes are dynamic creations that are always changing. […]
Agriculture / Horticulture
Are purple martins passing up your house?
Most years the LSU AgCenter receives a few questions asking why purple martins failed to take up residence in a birdhouse provided for them. […]
Agriculture / Horticulture
Plant figs, citrus and blackberries
Local nurseries should have an excellent selection of these plants newly arrived for planting in late winter and early spring. […]
Agriculture / Horticulture
Early August is the time to start late-summer vegetable gardens
There is something particularly satisfying about putting quality, nutritious food on the table as a direct result of your gardening efforts. […]
Agriculture / Horticulture
Late March is perfect time to plant cucumber-family vegetables
The cucumber family, properly known as the cucurbitaceae (cu-cur-bit-A-cee-ee), provides a wide variety of vegetables popular for the spring, summer and fall home vegetable garden. […]
Agriculture / Horticulture
How to keep your tropical plants happy this winter
BATON ROUGE – Tropical plants that thrive on decks, patios, porches and courtyards through the summer can’t withstand freezing and must be protected in the winter. […]
Agriculture / Horticulture
Train your vines to be well behaved
Vines are an amazing group of plants with enough diversity to boggle the mind of any gardener. What binds these wonderful plants together is their universal lack of strong stems. […]
Agriculture / Horticulture
Give your garden a taste of the tropics
If you regularly read national gardening magazines and get a variety of gardening catalogs, you may have noticed tropical-look landscaping is a trend gaining attention across the country these days. […]