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Popular Lawn and Garden Publications

Flowers

Growing Roses

Prairie Bloom Perennial Flowers

Prairie Star Annual Flowers

Fruits

Commercial Grape Production in Kansas

Fruit Pesticides, Active Ingredients and Labeled Fruits

Grapes

Planning your Fruit Garden

Pruning Apple and Pear Trees

Pruning Peaches, Plums, Cherries and other Stone Fruits

Raspberries and Blackberries

Small and Tree Fruit Cultivars

Spring Guide for Growing Apples at Home

Spray Guide for Growing Stone Fruit at Home

Strawberries

Timing Important when Harvesting Fruit/Garden Vegetables

Herbs

Farming a few Acres of Herbs:  An Herb Growers Handbook

Growing Herbs for Home Use

Horticulture Practices

Fertilizing Gardens in Kansas

Making Compost A Beginning Guide

Raised Bed Gardening

Lawn & Turf

Buffalograss Lawns

Fertilizing Kansas Lawns

Lawn Fertilizing Guide

Ornamental Grasses

Planting a Home Lawn

Shade-Tolerant Grasses

Tall Fescue Lawns

Watering New Lawns

Zoysia Lawns

Plant & Pest Problems

Bagworms

Borers:  Management and Prevention

Common Sense Pest Control

Controlling Nuisance Moles

Fall Armyworm

Fruit Pest Control for Home Gardens

Grasshoppers in the Lawn and Garden

Grub Management in Turfgrass Using Insecticides

Insects and Mite Pest of Vegetable Garden

Japanese Beetle

Oak Leaf Itch Mite

Pests of the Flower Garden

Pine Disease in Kansas: Tip Blight, Dothistroma Needle Blight, and Pine Wilt

Rose Rosette Disease

Tomato Leaf and Fruit Diseases and Disorders

Squash Bug

Squash Vine Borer

Weed Control in Home Lawns

Recommended Trees

Drought-Tolerant Trees for South-Central Kansas

Recommended Landscape Trees for KC

Trees and Shrubs for Difficult Sites

Tree, Shrubs & Woody Vines

Interpreting a K-State Soil Test for Tree and Shrub Beds

Planting Ornamental Trees and Shrubs

Selecting and Planting a Tree

Shade and Ornamental Trees for Kansas

Top Ten Steps for Successful Tree Planting

Top Ten Tree Planting Mistakes

Tree Planting Guide

Watering Newly Planted and Young Trees and Shrubs

Vegetables

Asparagus

Cucumbers and Melons

Growing Vegetables in Pots

Irish Potatoes

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Onions

Recommended Vegetable Varieties

Rhubarb

Sweet Corn

Vegetable Garden Planting Guide