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September 5, 2001 Ahh-Choo! Kevin overseeded our lawns last weekend. The front was a real mess - largely due to the backhoe that was parked there supporting our chimney earlier this year. Now's the time to do your own overseeding. To help you out we've published Overseeding A Lawn in our Features section. Check it out! I have started to cut back all of my perennials so that I can make room for my fall blooming flowers. Asters, Sedum (Autumn Joy, one of my favorites) and this new little blue flowered plant called Plumbago. I picked it up at The Sweet Onion in the spring and it is in full bloom. The tiny blue flower is particularly attractive against the back drop of its dark green leaves. I am pleased to have discovered it. Most of my other perennials are done producing and look a little tired. I have started preparing them for their long winter nap. After many hours of contemplation I have decided not to switch out my pots. I normally plant mums and pansies this time of year because everything always looks so wilted. However this year that is not the case. My pots still look great and I think that I am going to take a risk and hope that they will continue to flower once the cooler weather arrives. Decisions, decisions. Who said it was easy being a gardener? Rain is on the way and that's always welcome. After that I will continue to enjoy the weather now that the humidity levels are tapering off. I will also remember to not travel far from the house without a tissue in hand. Fall is slowly on its way!
Tomato
Trickery...
The
Great Divide... You'll know your plants need to be divided if:
For a quick but effective description of the dividing process you can read "Dividing Spring Blooming Perennials" in our Features section. You Can
Hear A Needle Drop... Root
Burlap: Friend or Faux? Yellow
Vine On The Horizon... Symptoms of the disease vary depending on host and time of infection. Plants infected soon after fruit set may rapidly wilt and die within a couple of days. These symptoms may be confused with bacterial wilt (seen on muskmelon but rarely on pumpkin and squash). Other plants may not show symptoms until a few weeks before harvest. Then, leaves on the vine turn yellow with the older leaves also developing a scorched appearance. The youngest, or terminal leaves tend to stand in a vertical position and curl inward at the leaf margin. Symptoms of the later stages of vine decline may be confused with Fusarium crown and root rot. The disease is caused by a phloem-limited bacterium and is apparently transmitted from plant to plant by squash bugs. Further studies on the epidemiology of the disease are in progress in Oklahoma. Right now there are not a lot of control options. Maintain a program to reduce squash bug populations in the field. Once the plant is infected there is no control. If you have seen or heard of any unusual declines of pumpkins, squash or watermelon in the area, please contact Ned Tisserat at K-State Research & Extension.
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