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Gardening Advice

Horticulture and gardening tips, produced by the OSU Extension Service, is a monthly update featuring gardening advice, current horticulture topics, and events for Oklahomans. Each month offers timely reminders for gardening and lawn care.

Gardening Tips

Garden Tips for Early to Mid-July

July 10, 2026

Learn how to care for trees, flowers, vegetables, lawns and fruit crops with expert advice on watering, pest management, pruning and summer maintenance.

Garden Tips for Early to Mid-June

June 25, 2026

Discover essential June gardening tips for Oklahoma, including lawn care, vegetable garden maintenance, pest management, watering practices, tree care, flower bed maintenance and strawberry bed renovation.

Mid to Late June Gardening Tips

June 19, 2026

A comprehensive mid-to late June gardening guide for Oklahoma, covering essential tips on trees and shrubs, vegetables, flowerbeds, lawn and turf and fruit and nuts.

Garden Tips for Mid to Late-May

June 1, 2026

This gardening guide highlights important tasks for mid- to late May, including lawn care, vegetable planting, pest management and landscape maintenance. Learn seasonal tips to keep gardens, trees, turf and fruit crops healthy and productive.

Hort Tips

Mid-to Late June Horticulture Tips

June 19, 2026

Learn more about the Mid to Late June 2026 Horticulture tips such as blooms in the garden, spider mites, fruiting vegetables that aren't producing, blossom end rot and fall vegetables.

Early to Mid-May 2026 Horticulture Tips

May 1, 2026

Learn more about the early to mid-May 2026 Horticulture tips such as leaf spot of Red Tip Photinia and how to control caterpillar pests.

Garden Tips for Mid- to Late April

April 17, 2026

A comprehensive mid- to late-April gardening guide for Oklahoma covering essential tips on planting, lawn care, pest control, and maintaining trees, flowers, vegetables, and fruit crops for a healthy spring landscape.

Garden Tips for Mid- to Late March

March 17, 2026

February 2026 Horticulture tips: learn the steps to test your soil to get a thriving lawn and garden.

Shackelford Virtual Session

Monthly topics

These Zoom Meetings, designed for both consumers and green industry professions, are free with expenses defrayed due to the continued generosity of Charles and Linda Shackelford, former co-owners of TLC, Oklahoma City. Each month a different topic is covered by various speakers throughout the United States.