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

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

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

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

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

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

By Debbie Roland and Emmy Ulmschneider, Master Gardeners Well, successful tomato crops are few and far between this year. Normally I...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

By Emmy Ulmschneider and Debbie Roland, Master Gardeners Do you want to grow a fruit crop that has few problems and pests reported? ...

By Emmy Ulmschneider and Debbie Roland, Master Gardeners In our last article we described four native plants that make wonderful ground...

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

By Debbie Roland and Emmy Ulmschneider, Master Gardeners As we have been in our yards this season, we both have noticed how few...

By Debbie Roland and Emmy Ulmschneider, Master Gardeners May 1. It is the day that you should strive to plant three things in your...

By Emmy Ulmschneider, Master Gardener What’s In a Name? By Emmy Ulmschneider, Master Gardener Have you ever looked at a plant label...

By Debbie Roland and Emmy Ulmschneider, Master Gardeners Have you ever stood in your yard and thought “I need to do something in here.”...

By Debbie Roland and Emmy Ulmschneider, Master Gardeners We have talked about gardening in raised beds but sometimes there isn’t enough...

By Debbie Roland and Emmy Ulmschneider, Master Gardeners I guess you have noticed that the price of things is going up. One of those...

By Debbie Roland, Emmy Ulmschneider and Shirley Kelley, Master Gardeners You know how you keep hearing that you need to eat right and...