BATON ROUGE — Because of the summer’s rainy weather, the annual corn maze at the LSU AgCenter Botanic Gardens at Burden has been dubbed the Corn/Hay Maze for 2016.
Garden shows, like the Fall Garden Show at the Botanical Gardens in New Orleans City Park, provide opportunities to get ideas and find new plants for the cool-season landscape. Now is the time for fall landscape grooming.
--LSU AgCenter/Johnny Morgan
For much of the nation, September marks the end of summer. Indeed, according to the calendar, fall will officially start at the autumnal equinox on Sept. 22.
Award winners at the annual convention of the Louisiana Association of Extension 4-H Agents held Aug. 24-26 at the LSU AgCenter Grant Walker 4-H Educational Center in Pollock were recognized. They include, from left, Tina Goebel, 25 Years of Service; Karen Martin, Meritorious Service Award; Adriana Drusini, Distinguished Service Award; Kali Zammit, Distinguished Service Award; Christina Zito Hebert, Achievement in Service Award; Nan Arthur, Achievement in Service Award; Esther Boe, Distinguished Service Award; Michael Lavergne, 25 Years of Service Award.
--Submitted photo
POLLOCK — The Louisiana Association of Extension 4-H Agents presented several awards recognizing members’ service and projects during its annual convention held Aug.
NEW ORLEANS — The marketplace has a gap between consumer needs for healthier food products that meet the criteria for taste, cost and convenience and the ability of the food industry to economicall
It’s too late in the season to prune many spring-flowering shrubs, such as this frostproof gardenia. But many non-flowering shrubs need care now.
--LSU AgCenter/Dan Gill
August is a month when gardeners should think about two important aspects of landscape maintenance — fertilizing and pruning.