by Tracy Bogard | Aug 28, 2020 | Tips & Ideas
Southwest Yard & Garden – Summer Pruning Is Okay and Maybe Even Better Than Waiting Until Late Winter Question: Is it okay to prune landscape trees now? Should we wait until it cools off a bit? Wait till fall? Submitted via Lynda Garvin, Sandoval County...
by Tracy Bogard | Aug 25, 2020 | Tips & Ideas
Southwest Yard & Garden – Tomato Warning: Side Splits and Shoulder Cracks Question: What’s wrong with these tomatoes? We’re seeing marks developing on some fruit in rings. The insides of the larger splits have white fuzz in them, but when the splits are...
by Tracy Bogard | Aug 17, 2020 | Tips & Ideas
Southwest Yard & Garden – Cicada Killer Wasps Are Cooler Than They Are Scary Question: What is this HUGE insect in my yard? I hope it’s not a murder hornet! Concerned New Mexicans All Over the State Answer: I saw versions of this question pop up again and...
by Tracy Bogard | Aug 13, 2020 | Plant Pests, Tips & Ideas
Learning From Squash Bugs by Linda Walsh – SEMG 2018 If There’s Squash Bugs in Heaven I Ain’t Staying is the title of Stacia Spragg-Baude’s biography of Evelyn Curtis Losack, woman farmer and water rights activist from Corrales. With all there is to talk about...
by scmgadmin | Jul 13, 2020 | Tips & Ideas
King David Came Over For Great Species Carl Linnaeus, a Swedish Botanist (1707-1778) By Kate Shadock – SEMG 2018 Master Gardener’s recognize this headline as the mnemonic technique to encode the hierarchical order of scientific plant identification, also known...
by scmgadmin | Jul 13, 2020 | Tips & Ideas
Growing Tomatoes in Sandoval County By Sam Thompson – SEMG 2008 – ‘The Tomato Maven’ There are three key challenges to growing tomatoes in Sandoval county: Low fertility soil, high temperatures, pests, and diseases. This month we’ll focus on the challenges of...
