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August 14, 2008 — Buffalograss

This week Jim Schild gives viewers information on Buffalograss management. Lucinda Mays takes you on a garden tour at Chadron State College. View program (View image gallery)

Question & Answer Clips 8/14/2008
What is causing these black spots on our tomatoes? (See images)
Is there a way to control nimblewill weed?
What is causing the holes in the truck of this tree? Tree is leaning because of storm damage. Can they be saved? (See images)
Should this Autumn Blaze Maple be pruned? (See images)
What is this weed that is spreading through our lawn? (violet) (See images)
Why are our tomatoes rotting on the bottom. (See images)
Can you identify this large green beetle? (green June beetle)
Can you identify this flower? (primrose flower family) (See images)
What is causing the leaf yellowing and trunk damage to our Stella cherry tree? (See images)
What are these plants? Should they be saved? (snowberry & cocklebur) (See images)
What is causing the bark to peel and look black on our judd viburnum? (See images)
Last year we had many colors of chrysanthemums. The lavendar mums developed a fungus. This year only the lavendar mums grew and the buds are deformed. Why?
We have an acreage on a bluff. What grass should we overseed with that will not need watering?
Are there different types of Monarch butterflies? What are the yellow and black butterflies?
Should you treat a shelf fungus on a locust tree?
View all the question clips from this program
Feature Clips
Video segment - Summer Blooming Shrubs
Calendar - Nebr. Statewide Arboretum Plant Sale, Midwest Tomato Fest, Mills County Butterfly Seminar
Video segment - Managing Buffalograss Lawns
Plant of the week - Butterfly Milkweed, Butterfly Bush
Video segement - Garden Tour at Chadron State College
Sample Clips
Sample - Blackseed Plantain weed
Sample - Powdery mildew on viburnum leaf
Sample - Garden Fleahopper insect on tomato and squash leaves
Gardening Links
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County Extension Offices
UNL Entomology Department
UNL Agronomy & Horticulture Department
Nebraska Statewide Arboretum
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Backyard Farmer's Panel of Experts

(front row) Stephen Wegulo, Extension Plant Pathologist; Roch Gaussoin, Extension Turfgrass Specialist; Kim Todd, Landscape Horticulture Specialist & program host; Fred Baxendale, Extension Entomologist; Lowell Sandell, Extension Weed Scientist.

(back row) Sarah Browning, Extension Assistant Educator, Dodge County; Jim Kalisch, Extension Entomologist; Loren Giesler, Extension Plant Pathologist.

Not Pictured: Anne Streich, Extension Horticulture Educator; Jeff Culbertson, Manager East Campus Landscape Services; Kelly Feehan, Extension Educator Platte County; Amy Ziems, Extension Plant Diagnostician; Dennis Ferraro, Extension Educator.

"Backyard Farmer" is produced by NU Lincoln Extension in cooperation with the Nebraska Educational Telecommunications Commission.

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