Buckeye Yard and Garden onLine

April 3, 2008 Print E-mail

This is the 1st 2008 edition of the Buckeye Yard and Garden onLine (BYGL). BYGL is developed from a Tuesday morning conference call of Extension Educators, Specialists, and other contributors in Ohio.

BYGL is available via email, contact Cheryl Fischnich [ This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ] to subscribe. Additional Factsheet information on any of these articles may be found through the OSU fact sheet database [ plantfacts.osu.edu ].

BYGL is a service of OSU Extension and is aided by major support from the ONLA (Ohio Nursery and Landscape Association) [ onla.org ] and [ buckeyegardening.com ] to the OSU Extension Nursery, Landscape, and Turf Team (ENLTT). Any materials in this newsletter may be reproduced for educational purposes providing the source is credited.

BYGL is available online at: [ bygl.osu.edu ], a web site sponsored by the Ohio State University Department of Horticulture and Crop Sciences (HCS) as part of the "Horticulture in Virtual Perspective." The online version of BYGL has images associated with the articles and links to additional information.

Following are the participants in the April 3rd conference call: Pam Bennett (Clark); Joe Boggs (Hamilton/Piketon); Erik Draper (Geauga); Dave Dyke (Hamilton); Gary Gao (Delaware); Michael Loos (Cuyahoga); Tim Malinich (Lorain); Shawn Wright (Piketon); Curtis Young (Allen) and Randy Zondag (Lake).

In This Issue:

  1. WEATHERWATCH
  2. HORT SHORTS: GDD [Growing Degree Days]; Plant of the Week [Hardy Bulbs, Witchhazel]; No Relief From Winter; Nasty Gnawing Rodents [Voles and Rabbits].
  3. BUGBYTES: Late Breaking Emerald Ash Borer (EAB) News [Counties Added to Quarantine]; Early EAB Check; Eastern Tent Caterpillar Eggs Hatch in Kentucky; CSI: Boston Fern [Florida Fern Caterpillar].
  4. DISEASE DIGEST: Avoiding Deformed Peach Leaves [Peach Leaf Curl]; Waterlogged Soil is Rotten for Roots.
  5. TURF TIPS: Spring Lawn Fertilization; Ladies and Gentlemen, Start Your Mowers; Preemergence Herbicides for Turfgrass.
  6. INDUSTRY INSIGHTS: A Fungus Among-Us [Fungal Contaminated Growing Media Bales].
  7. COMING ATTRACTIONS: Cincinnati Flower Show; BYGlive! in Cincinnati.
  8. BYGLOSOPHY
 

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