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Gaillardia, Wildflower Meadows, Sunburn Plants, Modern Roundup, Yellow Foxtail Setaria pumila, Red Velvet ants Dasymutilla occidentalis, Should I Spray or Mow?
Entomopathogenic fungi can help control garden pests naturally, offering an eco-friendly alternative to chemical insecticides.
Learn how pheromone, sticky and attractant traps help monitor insect pests, improve control timing and reduce pesticide use.
Entomopathogenic nematodes are beneficial microscopic worms that naturally control insect pests and support sustainable IPM programs.
Learn how spinosad, a naturally derived insecticide, controls garden pests while fitting into an integrated pest management plan.
Learn how microbial biopesticides, especially Bt, control pests naturally, protect crops, and support environmentally friendly gardening.
Learn how diatomaceous earth and kaolin clay protect plants from insect pests through physical action and low-toxicity control.
Learn how insecticidal soaps control aphids, whiteflies and other soft-bodied pests, plus tips for safe, effective use in the garden.
Learn how neem oil and azadirachtin control insects and diseases, their environmental impact, and safe use in home gardens.
Learn how horticultural oils control insects and diseases, when to apply them, and how to use them safely and effectively in the garden.
Cucumber is one of those vegetables that you don’t need a lot of plants to get a lot of harvest.
Daylily, Liatris pycnostachya, Virginia Buttonweed, Crinum, crinum vs. Hymenocallis, Asian Needle Ant, Fig Leaf Rust,
Dr. Joe win's national awards, Dill, Harlequin Bugs, Wild Bergamot, Little Red Floret, Winter Bentgrass, Native Plant Initiative of Greater New Orleans.
Okra is one of the iconic southern vegetables that every gardener should grow. It is a nutritious easy to grow veggie.
The peanut, also known as the groundnut, goober, or monkey nut, is a legume crop grown mainly for its edible seeds.
Overview of common pepper diseases in Louisiana, including symptoms and management tips to help gardeners identify issues early and protect crops.
There are over 35 insects and mites that attack peppers and more than 50 diseases.
Louisiana has the growing conditions for successfully growing almost any variety of pepper.
Sweet and hot peppers together are the second most popular homegrown vegetable in the U.S.
Agapanthus, Salvinia Weevil, Lawn Burweed, Powdery Mildew, Gerbera Daisies, King of wishful sprinkling, Native Orchids, The (Plant) Ride.
Since 1969, the Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program has educated limited-resource families and youth in Louisiana.
Southern Indica Azaleas, Downy Mildew, Saltmarsh Aster, Southern Magnolia, Evergreen Bagworm, Wysteria
Oxalis (woodsorrel), Blue Toadflax (Nuttallanthus canadensis), Laurel Wilt, Bottlebrush Tree, Persian Speedwell (Veronica persica), Crapemyrtle Bark Scale.
In this issue: Program highlights, Heart Health after Baby, and a tuna casserole recipe.
Beans are an affordable protein rich in fiber, vitamins, and minerals, and can be used in simple, healthy recipes like Cajun Caviar.
Tulips, White Clover, Bacterial Wetwood, Angel’s Trumpet, Violas, Edible Landscaping, Indian Pink, Puffy Fruit, Wax Myrtle, Annual blue-eyed grass, buck moths
Sweet alyssum, Freeze effects on insects, Sooty mold, Curly Dock, strawberries, New St. Augustine varieties, Tree Planting Clearance
Butternut squash is a Louisiana-grown winter squash packed with nutrients.
Cinnamon Girl’ Distylium, Annual Grasses, barnacle scale, Sphaeropsis knot of hollies, irrigation spray heads.
Common Purslane Portulaca oleracea, Black soldier fly Hermetia illucens, Termites in trees, Ants quest for water, Hire an arborist, marquerite daisy.
Croton Codiaeum variegatum, Southern salt marsh aster, cypress twig gall midge, Container Gardening: Water Movement and Irrigation, November Rain Collecion.
Long lasting bouquets, Growing strawberries, bordered plant bug, Mowing, Southern bacterial wilt, Chinese Fringe tree.
Coleus, Persimmons, Rattlesnake master, Touch of Grey, Lettuce Bottom Rot, Indoor Insect Pests
Yellow Bells (Tecoma stans) , Cow Itch Vine (Cissus trifoliata), Blue-eyed grass, Ticks, Shrubs, Rough Cocklebur (Xanthium strumarium)
Partridge Pea, Climbing Hemp Vine, Eastern Red Cedar, Duranta, Flagging tree branches, Parthenium Ragweed.
Hibiscus moscheutos, Mosquito control in water, Southern Blight, Sunpatiens, Planting in bagged soil, Mosquitos in Louisiana, Angelonia, Peppervine.
Beautyberry, Roughleaf Dogwood, cucumber beetles, Lady Lady’s Tresses Orchid, Society garlic, Lethal Bronzing, Pruning Palms, Frogfruit, Lichen, Bahiagrass.
Oleander, Marsh Parsley, Sweet Olive Leaf Scorch, Take it Out the Sun, Yellow Wooly bear caterpillars, Root Pruning
Angel Trumpet Brugmansia, Pruning cuts, Storing Seeds, annual bluegrass poa annua, fiery skipper butterfly, gauras, black spot on roses.
Lactose intolerance is a condition in which one has symptoms such as gas, bloating, abdominal cramps or diarrhea after consuming milk and milk products.
Abutlilon, After Freeze Care, Cornflowers and Bachelor's Buttons, Citrus Leafminers, Pruning Tools, Weedy Plantains, I'll Stop the World and Melt With You.
Io moth caterpillar, Common Chickweed, Pesalotia leaf spot, Firespike, Carless Pruner
Butterweed (Packera glabella), Bare Trees, Gray Mold (Botrytis cinera), Flour Beetles (Tribollium), Tears for Shears - pruning muhly grass.
Through EFNEP’s ”hands-on” approach, participants learn to make behavioral changes and improve the nutritional quality of meals for their families.
The LSU AgCenter developed a hypertension management program called Break Up With Salt (BUWS).
Jolt Dianthus, Yellowmargined Leaf Beetle, Hollyday Road, Pecan Scab, Oxalis Stricta.
Swamp SunflowersHelianthus simulans & Helianthus angustifolius, No-see-ums Ceratopogonidae sp., Goosegrass , Kool Season and the Gang, Lawn Soil Compaction
Rain lilies, Southern sandbur, armillaria root rot, peppers varieties, cigarette beetles, staking trees and Fall Webworms.
Bird of Paradise, Golden Rain Tree, Pepper Diseases, Cottony Cushion Scale, Bananas, Fig Rust
Zinnia, Pepper Pests, Hemp Sesbania, Ips Beetles, Stacey's Lawn, Large Milkweed Beetle.
Growing Peppers, Century Plant, Introducing Asha McIntyre, Cercospora leaf spot on Hydrangea, To Pick or not, Dwarf Cinquefoil Weed.
Peppers, Bacterial Leaf Spot, Asiatic Hawksbeak, Cicadas, Soil Solaraization, Vitex Trees
Bottlebrush tree, pincushion flower, two-lined spittlebug, narrowleaf vetch, periodical cicadas, lawn thatch.
Slash pine, Meadow Garlic, Crane Flies, Container Gardening Part 4-the plants, Little Pink Blossoms, Large Patch Disease in Lawns.
Taiwan Cherry, Bedstraw, Black Knot Disease, Leaf Mulch Benefits Arthropods, I Saw the Sign, Galls on Trees
Phyllis Fancy’ Salvia, After the Freeze, boxwood dieback, Pansies, Karma Camellia
Lantana bud galls, citrus chimera, container gardening growing medium, common ragweed, beet armyworm, cinnamon distylium.
The forest products industry contributes to each parish economy in several ways, including jobs, wages and purchases in the local economies.
Sunpatiens, revisiting old landscape classics, container gardening part 1, Eriophyid mites, Alligatorweed, mosquitos in the garden.
Barbados cherry, wood decay fungi, how much to plant, mulberry weed, engaging your ears in the landscape, vegetable recommendations.
Peggy Martin roses, Websites for Gardeners, Bushkiller Vine, Spartococera fusca, Yellow poplar weevil Odontata calceatus, Zippering, Red Imported Fire Ant.
Gardening Gloves, Tuber Vervain Verbena rigida, Peanut Greauxing Guide, Sunscald, Sunscorch, & Sunburn and more.
Comprehensive article with everything that you need to know about growing peanuts.
Bottlebrush tree, okra growing guide, Henbit Lamium amplexicaule, lawn mower maintenance, Green peach aphid, melon aphids, planting guide, garden tips, lawn.
Small magnolia cultivars and hybrids, crapemyrtle bark scale, damping off, oxalis, false shamrock, woodsorrel.
Every year deciduous trees drop tons of leaves. These leaves can be used as mulch or composted to make humus to use in our gardens and lawns.
Articles on roselle hibiscus, cabbage loopers, minute pirate bug, dandelions, phytophthora root rot, and will chill and plants.
Carolina Jessamine, White-ramping Fumitory, Plumbago, Growing Cucumbers,
Nasturtiums, Free Leaves - Compost and Mulch, Gulf Fritillary Butterfly, Soil Test Results, Holly Trees, Lady Beetles Coccinellidae, Cold Weather Invaders.
Giant Ironweed (Vernonia gigantea), Peppervine (Ampelopsis arborea), Tree Selection, Take-All Root Rot Turf Disease.
Scarlet Creeper, Spotted Lanternfly, Slow release vs. Control Release Fertilizer, Eucalyptus Tree, Joro Spider, Phomopsis Fruit Rot.
Hurricanes vs. Trees, Fall Tomatoes, Poison Hemlock, Organic vs. Chemical Fertilizer, Chamberbitter, Beacon Impatiens
Mimosa Vine (Mimosa strigillosa) as a Lawn Alternative, Crêpe Myrtles, Sweetbay Magnolia (Magnolia virgininana, American Cockroach, Plant Nutrition N-P-K.
Articles on Tulips, Louisiana Irises, Lespedeza, Yellowmargined leaf beetle (Microtheca ochroloma). Insect pheromones and attractants.
Information on the native plant including description, growing conditions, environmental benefits and uses.
Articles on daylilies, breeding daylilies, elderberry, hammerhead worms, torenias, and cutting back milkweed.
Articles on Mamou/Coral Bean, The Danger of Dead Branches, Florida Betony (Stachys floridana), Large Patch Turf Disease, Easter Buck Moth.
Includes articles on Salvia Super Plants, Encore Azaleas, Powdery Mildew on Roses, and Lawn Sod Installation.
Drummond’s Swamp Maple, Bandana Lantana, Pruning Crapemyrtles, Ambrosia Beetles, Downy Mildew of Brassica.
