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Woman feeling relaxed gardening in her garden (Photo: iStock - Dejan_Dundjerski)
Home and Family, Horticulture, Horticulture, Outdoors

Ready or not: It’s time to plant the fall vegetable garden

Fall crops may be seeded directly or transplanted, says K-State horticulture expert It may be mid-summer, but veteran gardeners know it’s time to start planning the fall vegetable garden. “Fall gardens may face additional pressures of pests and heat, but the flavor that comes ... Read More

Variety of Indoor Herb Plant Garden in Flower Pots on a table (Photo: iStock - EJGrubbs)
Home and Family, Horticulture

Keep growing with herbs indoors this fall, winter

Konza Prairie Fires (Photo: K-State Research and Extension)
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Burn anytime? Fire expert says yes 



A mung bean field harvested in Oklahoma on Oct. 20. (Journal photo by Lacey Vilhauer.)

Mung bean harvest in Oklahoma

Woman picking leaves of basil greenery (Photo: iStock - OKrasyuk)

Keep growing with herbs indoors this fall and winter

Neatening up the lawn in autumn or fall using a lawnmower to cut and bag the grass and dead leaves under trees alongside the road (Photo: iStock - Ozgur Coskun)

Fall is ideal time to set home landscape up for spring success

Carved jack-o-lantern (Photo: iStock - IvanMikhaylov)

Halloween’s Irish twist begins with ‘Stingy Jack’

Planting strawberries in the cooler months is ideal for better quality fruit. (Texas A&M AgriLife photo by Sam Craft)

If summer’s end has you in a jam, plant strawberries now

Mowing the grass (Photo: iStock - stoncelli)

What to do now to ensure a green lawn in the Spring

(Photo courtesy of University of Missouri Extension.)

Average first frost about 2 weeks away in northern Missouri

Jeff Whitworth, associate professor of entomology at Kansas State University, discusses the insects that have been the most prevalent in wheat and sorghum the last few years. (Journal photo by Lacey Vilhauer.)

Nasty insects in wheat and sorghum