Caldwell County Center: Lawn & Garden

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Lawn & Garden

Gardening is considered our nation's most popular pastime, yielding fresh fruits and vegetables for the dinner table, a cleaner environment and aesthetically pleasing landscapes. North Carolina Cooperative Extension helps gardeners learn more about new plants, native plants and environmental stewardship. Extension-trained Master Gardener volunteers are instrumental in these efforts, sharing their knowledge of plant selection, cultural practices and pest management with fellow gardeners.

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Fall Fertilization - Not Too Late
Posted November 20th, 2009 in Lawn & Garden

This week we have had several calls asking if it is to late to fertilize the lawn. It turns out, it is not to late to fertilize tall fescue lawns, but it should be applied this week or next. People who want a lush, thick, green lawn should really fertilize three times per year. We recommend fertilizing in February, September, and November. Fall fertilization promotes root growth which will be ... MORE

Potato Fruit?
Posted July 2nd, 2009 in Lawn & Garden

I received an interesting call this week about potatoes having a tomato-like fruit growing from the vine. Occasionally gardeners find small, round, green, tomato-like fruit on their potato plants. These fruit are not the result of cross-pollination with tomatoes. They are the true fruit of the potato plant and are referred to as berries. These berries are produced when potato blooms are fertilized. All potato plants bloom, but most of the time the flowers just ... MORE