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Bulbs, Corms and Rhizomes: The Difference
By Debbie Roland and Emmy Ulmschneider, Master Gardeners Life is all about survival. And plants are no strangers to surviving under...

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Oct 29, 20222 min read


Fall Tasks
By Debbie Roland and Emmy Ulmschneider, Master Gardeners By the time you read this we will be within four weeks of our predicted first...

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Oct 4, 20222 min read


Pollination Syndromes
By Emmy Ulmschneider, Master Gardener If you have ever visited a garden in full bloom, maybe you noticed the vast array of different...

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Sep 27, 20222 min read


Get the Blues
By Debbie Roland and Emmy Ulmschneider, Master Gardeners Did you know that less than 10% of flowers are blue? For the past few years,...

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Sep 20, 20222 min read


West Texas Wildflowers
By Debbie Roland and Emmy Ulmschneider, Master Gardeners Texas is known for its iconic spring wildflowers. But to have wildflowers in...

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Sep 14, 20222 min read


Succulents
By Debbie Roland and Emmy Ulmschneider, Master Gardeners The last few years succulents have skyrocketed in popularity. We hear people...

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Sep 6, 20222 min read


Succession Planting
By Debbie Roland and Emmy Ulmschneider, Master Gardeners If you have ever driven by a cut flower farm or a vegetable market farm, chances...

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Sep 3, 20222 min read


Fall Flowers
By Debbie Roland and Emmy Ulmschneider, Master Gardeners I think we get so busy planting vegetables in the summer that sometimes we...

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Sep 3, 20222 min read


Fall Gardening-Part II
By Debbie Roland and Emmy Ulmschneider, Master Gardeners Last week we talked about tomatoes. But fall gardens are more than tomatoes so...

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Sep 3, 20222 min read


Don’t be Afraid of a Fall Garden-Part I
By Debbie Roland and Emmy Ulmschneider, Master Gardeners Well, successful tomato crops are few and far between this year. Normally I...

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Aug 9, 20222 min read


Curly Mesquite Grass
By Debbie Roland and Emmy Ulmschneider, Master Gardeners Curly Mesquite (Hilaria Belanger) is a native, warm season grass that grows...

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Aug 1, 20222 min read


How Do We Help?
By Emmy Ulmschneider, Master Gardener I became a septuagenarian this week and in those seventy circuits around the sun I have seen many...

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Jul 25, 20222 min read


History of Food in West Texas
By Emmy Ulmschneider and Debbie Roland, Master Gardeners If you have gardened for any length of time, you know that you come to feel a...

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Jul 18, 20222 min read


Garden Towers
By Emmy Ulmschneider and Debbie Roland, Master Gardeners We have touched on garden towers in our container gardening article but wanted...

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Jul 11, 20222 min read


Waffle Gardening
By Emmy Ulmschneider and Debbie Roland, Master Gardeners In Arizona and New Mexico the Zuni Tribe began using agriculture around 4,000...

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Jul 4, 20222 min read


The Making of Compost Tea
By Emmy Ulmschneider and Debbie Roland, Master Gardeners Four thousand years ago the Egyptians were making compost tea which simply...

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Jun 27, 20222 min read


Creating a Rock Garden
By Emmy Ulmschneider and Debbie Roland, Master Gardeners In West Texas we have access to rocks. Rock gardens can be made up of any size...

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Jun 24, 20222 min read


Flagstone and Rock Border Plants (Ideas)
By Emmy Ulmschneider and Debbie Roland, Master Gardeners In our last article we described four native plants that make wonderful ground...

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Jun 6, 20222 min read


Native Groundcovers
By Debbie Roland and Emmy Ulmschneider, Master Gardeners After the rain some of us were blessed with, the weeds will start popping up. ...

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Jun 4, 20222 min read
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