Gardening

By Emmy Ulmschneider and Debbie Roland Master Gardeners Sweet potatoes and yams are not the same thing. Yams are herbaceous, perennial vines with a starchy tuber. They...

By Emmy Ulmschneider and Debbie Roland Master Gardeners This year is already proving once again that we cannot predict the weather in West Texas. I have been...

By Jeff Floyd Certified horticulturist and arborist If landscape maintenance robots ever become mainstream, what will that look like and who will adopt the technology? Believe...

By Debbie Roland and Emmy Ulmschneider Master Gardeners Raised beds are a great option for many reasons. They use less water, it’s easier to keep weeds...

By Emmy Ulmschneider and Debbie Roland Master Gardeners You want to learn about more about establishing an urban prairie, but where do you start? The good news is that there are...

By Jeff Floyd Certified horticulturist and arborist In 2009, the Environmental Protection Agency removed MSMA from the list of herbicides the turfgrass industry uses to control...

By Emmy Ulmschneider and Debbie Roland Master Gardeners An article about our short native grasses lets me talk about two of my favorite things: Native plants and bison. Since I was...

By Emmy Ulmschneider and Debbie Roland Master Gardeners Across the Great Plains, including Texas, there are a gradient of physical conditions going from west to east as you cross the shortgrass...

By Emmy Ulmschneider and Debbie Roland Master Gardeners Prairies used to cover a swath of America from Mexico to Canada. But not all prairies are the same. Different conditions dictate each...

By Debbie Roland and Emmy Ulmschneider Master Gardeners This will be the first in a series of articles on our native prairie grasses that can be used...