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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

May 2025 Gardening Tips

May 1, 2025

May 2025 gardening tips on caring for trees and shrubs, turfgrass, flowers, water gardens, and fruits and vegetables.

April 2025 Gardening Tips

April 1, 2025

April 2025 gardening tips on caring for fruits and nuts, trees and shrubs, flowers, vegetables, general landscapes, lawns, and garden planting guides for warm season vegetables.

March 2025 Gardening Tips

March 1, 2025

March gardening tips on caring for lawn & turf, flowers & vegetables, trees & shrubs and fruits.

December 2024 Gardening Tips

December 1, 2024

December gardening tips on caring for lawn & turf, tree & shrubs, flowers, fruits & nuts, general gardening and gardening tips for January.

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Hort Tips

May 2025 Hort Tips

May 1, 2025

May 2025 Horticulture tips: What are the Horizontal Holes on My Trees, Thrips can Wreak Havoc on Flowers and Plant Foliage, How to Produce High Quality Tomatoes, Growing in Raised Garden Beds, ‘Captivation’ – a Seedless Watermelon, Regrow Your Food, May Pecan Management, Register to Attend the Oklahoma Pecan Growers Association annual meeting, and May Lawn Fertilization Tip for Oklahoma Homeowners.

April 2025 Hort Tips

April 1, 2025

April 2025 Horticulture tips: Growing Asparagus, Resistance, Our First Defense to Pests, April Pecan Management, Tomato Cages, Feeding the Birds, Gardening Over Lateral Lines (Septic Drain Fields), Using Bedding Plants in the Landscape, and Hardy Ferns for Oklahoma.

March 2025 Hort Tips

March 1, 2025

March 2025 Horticulture tips: Training Young Shade and Ornamental Trees, Hellebores, Control Peach and Nectarine Leaf Curl, Cutting Back Ornamental Grasses, Applying Dormant Oils for Winter Insect Control, Pruning Roses, Assessing Winterskill on Bermudagrass and Zoysiagrass and Snap Bean Cultivar Comparison in Oklahoma.

February 2025 Hort Tips

February 1, 2025

February 2025 Horticulture tips: Hurry to Reserve your Seat in the 2025 Pecan Management Course, Deadline Approaches to Enroll in 2025 Pecan Pest Management Workshop, Pecan Grafting Demonstrations, Starting Seeds Indoors, Fresh Spring Vegetables, Soil Testing…the Right First Step, When to Prune, Fertilizing Asparagus, Spring-Flowering Trees, Shrubs, and Vines, and Planting Bare-Root Trees and Shrubs, 2025 Oklahoma Proven Selections.

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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. 
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