Need answers to floriculture, vegetable, fruit, or weed questions? The Department of Horticulture invites you to try their powerful, but focused search engines designed to provide answers from the scientific literature, trade and association magazines/websites and NC State University, and archive (repository of literature dating back to the 1800s). Floriculture InfoSearch Fruit InfoSearch Vegetable InfoSearch Weed InfoSearch
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Need answers to floriculture, vegetable, fruit, or weed questions? The Department of Horticulture invites you to try their powerful, but focused search engines designed to provide answers from the scientific literature, trade and association magazines/websites and NC State University, and archive (repository of literature dating back to the 1800s). Floriculture InfoSearch Fruit InfoSearch Vegetable InfoSearch Weed InfoSearch
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Diane Currier, owner of Honeygirl Meadery, shares how a visit to Alaska motivated her to start her meadery and a how her award-winning mead is made. Listen to this interview to learn more MORE » – from 
Extension Gardener
It is the time of year when landscapers and homeowners are preparing to plant winter color beds. The most common species used in winter color beds are pansies and violas. These colorful bedding MORE » – from Weeds
The WNC Farmlink program is growing and expanding! Check out the first of what we hope are many videos about the program, the services offered, how to negotiate farmland purchases and leases, and …
– from the NC Alternative Crops and Organics blogPlants are NOT Just Pretty- They Serve a Multitude of Functions! Join us on June 29th, 2016 for the Landscape Color and Professional Field Day to learn more. This event will be held MORE »
Summer annual weeds, like crabgrass and spurge, are best controlled NOW. For maximum effectiveness, mulches or preemergence herbicides need to be applied before weed seeds germinate. Top dress landscapes with a fresh layer MORE »
Effective January 1, 2016 Graham, Halifax and Macon Counties will be added to the quarantine area for the imported fire ant. That will make a total of 74 of the 100 counties in NC MORE »
Kentucky State University Pawpaw Fruit/Nut Disease Information Notes Videos Peach Planting and Pruning Videos Planting a Peach Tree Pruning a Young Peach Tree Pruning a 2 Year-old Peach Tree Pruning a Mature Peach MORE »
Winter is still months away but the time to apply preemergence herbicides to control fall-germinating weeds is upon us. Winter annual weeds such as henbit, chickweed, annual bluegrass, and vetch will germinate as MORE »
Bermudagrass, crabgrass and other annual grasses seem to defy the drought conditions that make our landscape plants wilt. Annual grassy weeds, like crabgrass, can be removed by hand and controlled with mulches and MORE »
