Agriculture
Prescribed burning workshop for forests set for April 3-5 in Clinton
The LSU AgCenter is offering a prescribed burning workshop with burner certification for timber landowners on April 3-5 at the Bob R. Jones Idlewild Research Station. The workshop will begin 8 a.m....
Mar 15, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Water lilies provide attractive flowers in water gardens. (PHOTO/Dan Gill)
It’s time to clean out aquatic gardens
I love to garden in shady areas, although I know gardeners who complain about gardening successfully in the shade. Trouble mostly occurs when sun-loving plants are planted in shady locations. When ...
Mar 14, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 3 3 recommendations | email to a friend
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Flower of the Autumn Lily Encore azalea. (PHOTO/Allen Owings)
Newest Encore azaleas set to debut
New varieties from the Encore azalea group are coming this spring. Many of the Encore azaleas now have improved cold hardiness (normally not a problem in Louisiana), sun tolerance and lacebug resis...
Mar 13, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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Healthful neighborhoods support healthy lifestyles
“Are your neighbors healthy?” Karen Overstreet asks. Creating a healthful neighborhood may be the secret to your own healthy lifestyle, according to the program leader for food and consumer science...
Mar 12, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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LSU AgCenter Plant doctor Raghuwinder “Nick” Singh examines a plant for disease at the Plant Diagnostic Clinic on the LSU campus. Singh will have free plant health clinics at the following garden shows in Baton Rouge on March 9, Covington on March 15, Lake Charles on March 22 and New Orleans April 6 and 7. (PHOTO/Johnny Morgan)
‘Plant Doctor’ to attend garden shows
As the garden show season begins across south Louisiana, questions about insect and disease damage on plants will continue to increase. To have those questions answered, “Plant Doctor” Nick Singh f...
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Gray mold on tomato.
Gray mold attacking Louisiana greenhouse tomatoes
Gray mold, a fungal disease common to tomatoes grown in greenhouses, has been showing up in operations from East Feliciana to Terrebonne parishes in recent months. “This gray mold, which is caused...
Mar 08, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
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Elvadus Fields (center) receives an appreciation award for 50 years of dedicated service, impacting the lives of children through 4-H and the Club Calf Industry with the Southern University Ag Center’s Livestock Show. Leodrey Williams, chancellor, Christie Monroe, livestock show manager and Gina E. Eubanks, vice chancellor for extension, from left. )PHOTO/Christopher J. Rogers)
Southern University AgCenter's 70th Livestock Show announces winners
The Southern University Agricultural Research and Extension Center concluded its 70th Annual Livestock Show with more than 350 participants from across the state recently. This year, the show was a...
Mar 07, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
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LDAF warns horse owners of potential virus
The Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry (LDAF) is monitoring the Equine Herpes Virus-1 (EHV-1) outbreak at the Horse Shows in the Sun (HITS) equestrian event in Ocala, Florida. On Feb....
Mar 06, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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EBR Master Gardeners ready for annual plant sale
East Baton Rouge Master Gardeners will hold their annual plant sale earlier this year, according to Master Gardener Donna Montgomery. The show will be held on Sat., April 13, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. ...
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EBR Master Gardeners ready for annual plant sale
The show will be held on Sat., April 13, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. and Sun., April 14, from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. This will substitute for the widely popular Mother’s Day event held in previous years. “Each...
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This landscape design offers nice partial shade for these shrubs. (PHOTO/Submitted)
Evaluate light in your landscape
When it comes to gardening, knowing the sunlight conditions in different areas of your landscape is critical to success. If you should plant a shrub you just bought in partial shade, do you know wh...
Mar 04, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
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