Gardening & Horticulture Tips | Oklahoma State University

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.

November 2024 Hort Tips

November 1, 2024

This section of horticulture tips discusses topics such as controlling Broadleaf winter weeds in home lawns, how to prevent winter kill in warm-season grasses, drought conditions causing issues for pecan growers, fall cleanup, winter protection of Broadleaf evergreens, how to control deer damage, how to control insects around the home, protecting young trees and dirt artwork.

October 2024 Hort Tips

October 1, 2024

October 2024 Horticulture Tips: Garden Tips for October, The Magic of Autumn, Fall is a Good Time to Plant, Dwarf Columnar European Hornbeam, Plant a Persimmon Tree for an Easy to Grow Fruit Tree, Propagating Southern Magnolia Seeds, Raking Basics, and Time to Collect & Enter Pecans for the 2024 State Pecan Show.

September 2024 Hort Tips

September 1, 2024

This section of horticulture tips discusses gardening tips such as landscaping, vegetable growth, lawn care, fall pecan field day, how to control deer damage, aster yellows, building healthy soils, season lawn planning and turfgrass fertilization.

August 2024 Hort Tips

August 1, 2024

October 2024 Horticulture Tips: Fall Pecan Day, Garden Accessibility, PawPaw and Managing the Heat and Drought in the Landscape

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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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